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Nick Strelchuk served with the US Navy as part of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31). This collection consists of one 10 by 8 inch color photograph showing an air-to-air view of a US Navy Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) McDonnell F-4 (F4H) Phantom II flying beside a captured MiG MiG-21 Fishbed.
Nick Strelchuk served with the US Navy as part of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31). Strelchuk was the pilot of the McDonnell F-4 (F4H) Phantom II that flew as wingman to the McDonnell F-4S Phantom II that is in the National Air and Space Museum's collection (A19890038000) on the mission in which it shot down a MiG MiG-21 Fishbed during the Vietnam War on June 21, 1972.
NASM.2024.0004
1973
Nick Strelchuk, Gift, 2023, NASM.2024.0004
0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one 10 by 8 inch color photograph showing an air-to-air view of a US Navy Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) McDonnell F-4 (F4H) Phantom II flying beside a captured MiG MiG-21 Fishbed. The photograph was taken by a radar intercept officer (RIO) during a war game exercise at Fallon, Nevada in 1973.
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US Navy Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) Photograph [Strelchuk], NASM.2024.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
McDonnell F-4 (F4H) Phantom II Family
MiG MiG-21 Fishbed Family
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