The primary combat aircraft were:
1. A-1 Skyraider (a WWII "designed" dive bomber-propeller driven)
2. A-4 Skyhawk, fighter bomber
3. A-6 Intruder all weather medium bomber
4. A-7 Corsair II, fighter bomber
5. F-4 Phantom II, interceptor; used as a fighter bomber
6. F-8 Crusader, interceptor; used as a fighter bomber
A few examples:
1. The longest serving "in steady combat" US jet warplane was the North American F100 Super Sabre (1961-1971).
2. The last aces of the 20th century were the F4 Phantom IIs.
3. The last heavy bomber tail gunners to shoot down an enemy aircraft in aerial combat history were two B52 Stratofortress SAC bombers (Strategic Air Command). Both B52s are currently preserved and on display (Air Force Academy).
4. The first combat mission of the SR-71 Blackbird was over the skies of North Vietnam during the war.
5. The C47 Spooky (or Puff the Magic Dragon) gave rise to todays aerial fixed wing gunships...today's AC-130 Spectre of which 5 were destroyed in the Vietnam War while "truck hunting" along the Ho Chi Minh trail; is the only USAF gunship still on active duty.
6. The 0-1 Bird Dog was Americas last purpose built fixed wing artillery adjusting airplane (FAC and Spotter) & recon plane to be used in war (Vietnam War)...being replaced by the O-6 Cayuse helicopter in Vietnam.
7. Call sign "Sandy" and nicknamed the "Spad" the Douglas A-1 Skyraider was America's last purpose built propeller driven single engine WARPLANE to see combat in a war (verses a solitary/isolated incident).
During the Vietnam War, the minimum standard was 70.
Because the North Viet Navy attacked the US Navy in the Tonkin Gulf.
John Potter
No. She was a heavy cruiser of the regular US Navy. Brown Water Navy was a special part of the US Navy that existed in only two wars: US Civil War (1860s) & Vietnam War (1960s). The USN Brown Water Navy was basically a river navy, in both the Civil War & Vietnam. In Vietnam the BWN consisted of Swift Boats, PBRs, ASPBs (aka Alpha Boats, ASPB stood for Assault Support Patrol Boat), and Monitors. The Civil War Monitors were armed with 11" guns in turrets & the Vietnam Monitors mounted either a 40mm or 105mm cannon in a turret.
2,555 US Sailors were killed in the Viet War.
the B-47 stratojet and the inceptor
The Vietnam War escalated from a Viet Cong guerrilla war to a war involving regular Army units of the North Vietnamese Army; including jet aircraft combat between US Air Force/US Navy jet fighter planes against North Vietnamese Air Force fighter aircraft.
list of navy physicians killed in vietnam
During the Vietnam War, the minimum standard was 70.
Some websites: Vietnam War Combat Art, US Army Combat Art, USMC Combat Art, US Navy...the Vietnam Experience.
Because the North Viet Navy attacked the US Navy in the Tonkin Gulf.
Australia sent 4 Navy Destroyers and a regiment of Australian Centurion tanks into the Vietnam War.
John Potter
North Vietnam and the United States. South Vietnam wasn't the main combatant, because they did NOT conduct the Air War over North Vietnam. The Vietnam War had three categories: US Navy-Riverine War; US Air Force-Air War; US Army/US Marines-Land War.
Because the North Vietnamese Navy attacked the US Navy in the Tonkin Gulf.
Confrontations between the US Navy & North Viet Navy in the Tonkin Gulf in 1964.
No. She was a heavy cruiser of the regular US Navy. Brown Water Navy was a special part of the US Navy that existed in only two wars: US Civil War (1860s) & Vietnam War (1960s). The USN Brown Water Navy was basically a river navy, in both the Civil War & Vietnam. In Vietnam the BWN consisted of Swift Boats, PBRs, ASPBs (aka Alpha Boats, ASPB stood for Assault Support Patrol Boat), and Monitors. The Civil War Monitors were armed with 11" guns in turrets & the Vietnam Monitors mounted either a 40mm or 105mm cannon in a turret.