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From: MSN NicknameElGato196  (Original Message)Sent: 7/31/2008 4:40 AM
This maybe old hat for some of y'all, but it is new and very special to me! Mine reads:
 
Lt Victor Patrick Buckley VA
US Navy 16  Dec 1969 NVN MIA
 
 According to the attached biography, Victor was over North Vietnam, on a bombing run, when his F-8 Corsair was hit by enemy fire. He headed out to sea where it is assumed he crashed with no survivors.
Listed both as MIA and dead, no body recovered, Lt Buckley is one of thousands whose true story and where abouts will never be know but to the Creator!
 
Lt Buckley? Rest easy, sir, and wherever you are, welcome home!
 


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From: MasterGunner01Sent: 7/31/2008 12:00 PM
 Aircraft recognition time.
 
The Chance-Vought F-8U (later F-8) Crusader was jet fighter of the 1950s through 1960s.  It had limited ground attack capabilties, but was more than an equal for communist MiGs with its four Sidewinder missiles and four 20mm cannon.
 
The Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II was a dedicated light attack bomber of the 1960s through 1990s with both the USN and USAF.  The A-7 was very, very similar to the F-8 predecessor, but was a bomb truck and not a fighter.  Without an afterburner, the A-7 could not go supersonic like the F-8.  However, it carried far more useful ordnance than the F-8.
 
The citation should read F-8 CRUSADER vice Corsair.

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From: MSN NicknameVietnamFatCatSent: 8/1/2008 6:48 PM
Oops! My bad, I misread the bio. Sorry...