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| Keywords: Camouflaged RA-5C of RVAH-13 over Tonkin Gulf 1966.jpg A U S Navy North American RA-5C Vigilante aircraft BuNo 150834 of Heavy Reconnaissance Squadron RVAH-13 Bats in flight over the Gulf of Tonkin RVAH-13 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 11 CVW-11 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk CVA-63 for a deployment to Vietnam from 19 October 1965 to 13 June 1966 The U S Navy experimented with aircraft camouflage and painted half of the aircraft of CVW-11 with dark green colours to blend in with the Vietnamese jungle The results proved inconclusive for the U S Navy whereas the U S Air Force concluded that the camouflage was effective U S Navy planes would not be camouflaged until the 1980s 150834 was one of three replacement aircraft for RVAH-13 on this deployment as the squadron had lost three of its six aircraft http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 16005932 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1996 253 6666 1966 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Reconnaissance Heavy Attack Squadron 13 United States Navy North American RA-5C Vigilante | ||||
