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A-7E Corsair II
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WATCH: This Is What It Was Like to Fly the Whale From a Carrier Deck
Experience the Life of an EA-3B Skywarrior Crew During a Mid-1980s WestPac Deployment Bruce “Shooter” Gamble was a Navigator with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE (VQ-1) World Watchers between 1982…
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That Time They Buried an A-7E SLUF at Sea
The Story of One Pilot’s Incredible Mission During the Corsair II’s Last War. Carrier aviation is rife with stories about perilously anomalous events. Cold cat shots. Cross deck pendants parting.…
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Achtung! The Luftwaffe Nearly Became an A-7 Corsair II Operator
Well SLUF fans we scoured the interweb but just couldn’t find this visually striking footage with an English narration. The German version of the film is narrated in German for…
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Behold The Corsair II- The Undisputed Rodney Dangerfield of Vietnam-Era Attack Jets
The 1975 Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV)-produced promotional film “The A-7 Attack Fighter” features both the Navy’s A-7E and the Air Force’s A-7D Corsair II tactical jets. The Short Little Ugly F*cker (SLUF)…
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