• Fifty years after flying aircraft in Vietnam, Jim Wise returns to the deck of the USS Midway, which is now a museum. He points to markings on an F-4 that represent the MiGs shot down by VF‑161.
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    Jim Wise points to markings that represent the MiGs shot down by VF‑161. The other side of the F-4 is painted in the livery of VF-21 to showcase the squadron that in 1965 shot down the first two MiGs of the Vietnam War.

  • Fifty years after flying aircraft in Vietnam, Jim Wise returns to the deck of the USS Midway, which is now a museum. He points to markings on an F-4 that represent the MiGs shot down by VF‑161.

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2004

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Courtesy James Wise

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