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A-3 Skywarrior Units of the Vietnam War
By Rick Morgan, Jim Laurier and Gareth Hector
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The Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, though something of a cult favourite, remains a largely unremarked classic of Naval Aviation. Built for nuclear weapon delivery, the A-3 made its name in Vietnam as a conventional bomber, tanker and Electronic Warfare platform. It was the largest aircraft ever regularly operated from the decks of aircraft carriers, earning it the fleet-wide nickname 'Whale'. It excelled in every mission area assigned to it and operated in the US Navy for more than four decades, from 1956 through to 1991. Fully illustrated to depict the incredible array of paint schemes and its awesome size, this volume focuses on the type's Vietnam service, which saw the aircraft briefly used as a bomber over both North and South Vietnam from March 1965, before the Skywarrior proved far more valuable as a multi-role tanker (KA-3B) and tanker/tactical jammer (EKA-3B). The title includes details on all of these operations as well as more clandestine reconnaissance missions, and provides information about the men that flew them.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author did a splendid job in telling the story of this historic, but sometimes overlooked, aircraft. I found the book extremely enjoyable to read. The author writes in a style that all can understand.
My only disappointment is no photograph of a Skywarrior in NARU Alameda livery. However, I appreciated, and felt due justice was done, in the acknowledgement of NARU Alameda's role in assuming the fleet replacement role, if only for a brief period.
Of personal note: My father, a career maritime patrol naval flight officer (NFO), served as the NARU maintenance officer from 1975 until the the transfer of A-3 fleet replacement function to VAQ-33. I vividly remember the organizational day picnic held in July of 1977. Roughly sixty-five percent of the unit possessed transfer orders to NAS Norfolk. A baseball game was held, where the losing team cried, "Next year in Norfolk!" Not sure if the game was ever held the following summer. However, by October, NARU's flight line seemed empty with only two A-4 Skyhawks remaining in the unit's inventory.
Another memory from that same year (Fall 1977), though a sad one, concerned a Skywarrior from one of the reserve squadrons which had crashed into the canal separating Alameda from Oakland. On a late Sunday during a weekend drill, the aircraft was on approach to a landing and crashed into the seawall instead. None of the aircrew survived. About a month after the crash and it had ceased to be mentioned in local news, my father picked me up from school in nearby San Francisco. For some reason he had to return to the base. The damaged aircraft was laid bare on the cement floor of NARU's hangar. The cockpit had been completely destroyed! I remember thinking, ''What if Dad had been flying that weekend?" It finally dawned on me the dangerous business he pursued.