File:RA-5C Vigilantes of RVAH-13 in flight c1966.jpg

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Description	All six U.S. Navy North American RA-5C Vigilante aircraft from Reconnaissance Heavy Attack Squadron 13 Bats in flight. 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. RVAH-13 lost three of its six planes during that deployment. Note that the aircraft are camouflaged. 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.
Date	circa 1966 date QS:P,+1966-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) 1965-66 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author	USN

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