Attached are some more of Dick Kamm's CRB F-4 pics. In this batch I am focusing on F-4s that either scored kills or were themselves later destroyed in combat. First, some Mig killers:
F-4C 64-739 shot down a MiG-17 on May 13, 1967:
F-4C 64-838 shot down a MiG-21 on January 2, 1967. Today it is displayed in Huntsville, AL.
I posted a shot last week of F-4C 64-699, which destroyed a MiG-17 on April 23, 1966, but in that picture the kill marking was difficult to discern. This shot has better lighting and it is clearly visible.
Here is probably the most famous of all Air Force Phantoms, F-4C 64-829 in which Robin Olds destroyed two MiG-17s on May 20, 1967. This machine is now preserved in the NMUSAF at Dayton. While it was at CRB, however, it had a new paint job that bore no trace of its history, and was only later repainted for display in Col. Olds's markings.
Now, some lost-in-combat aircraft. F-4C 63-7708 exploded during an attack run on Oct. 2, 1969. One crew member ejected and was saved, the other KIA.
Both crew were killed when F-4C 64-800 was hit by ground fire on Nov. 13, 1968.
One of the two crew survived when F-4C 64-696 was hit by ground fire on Nov. 19, 1967.
F-4C 64-774 was hit by ground fire on Dec. 13, 1967. Both crew ejected; one was recovered, the other remains MIA.
On Oct. 25, 1968, a crew member of F-4C 63-7444 was killed in an accidental ejection. The aircraft remained in service but was hit on a mission on Dec. 15, 1969, with one of the two crew members surviving.
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