A Redcocks Bite - Oil
by Tommy Anderson
Title
A Redcocks Bite - Oil
Artist
Tommy Anderson
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Oil
Description
My Digiatal Oil of 'Redcocks Bite", A4F Skywawks of VB-22 making a strike over North Vietnam.
This profile is of the Douglas A-4F Skyhawk is a single seat carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The delta winged, single-engine aircraft was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later by McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the U.S. Navy's pre-1962 designation system.
The Skyhawk was a lightweight aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 24,500 pounds (11,100 kg) and has a top speed of more than 600 miles per hour (970 km/h). The aircraft's five hard points support a variety of missiles, bombs and other munitions and were capable of delivering nuclear weapons using a low altitude bombing system and a "loft" delivery technique.
USN and USMC Skyhawks played key roles in the Vietnam War. The Fighting Redcocks of Strike Fighter Squadron 22 assigned to the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31). The Fighting had six combat deployments during the Vietnam War. On the final Vietnam deployment, VA-22 participated in the critical mining of Haiphong Harbor and intensive air strikes into North Vietnam, enabling a successful withdrawal from the conflict.
On May 12, 1975, the SS Mayaguez,an American Flagged merchant ship was in international waters off Cambodia's coast. The ship and crew was seized by the Khmer Rouge. The ship was being towed to Kompong Som. President Ford ordered the carrier Coral Sea and other Navy ships to the Gulf of Thailand and US military planes in the Philippines to find the Mayaguez and keep it in sight. On May 14, 1975 the Cambodians released the ship's crew as Cambodian targets were under attack by the US armed forces. This became known as the last official battle of the Vietnam War.
This Douglas A-4F Skyhawk was assigned to VA-22 on the USS Bon Homme Richard. The USS Bon Homme Richard was commissioned in November 1944, and served in the final campaigns of the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning one battle star. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA). In her second career she operated exclusively in the Pacific, playing a prominent role in the Korean War, for which she earned five battle stars, and the Vietnam War. She was decommissioned in 1971, and scrapped in 1992.
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November 16th, 2014
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