Shown here is a RA-5C (“Vigilante”) of Reconnaissance Attack Squadron twelve seen off the coast of North Vietnam; operating off the Attack Aircraft Carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) as part ...

He spent more than a year training aboard his RA-5C Vigilante reconnaissance aircraft before he was assigned to a fleet squadron and deployed to Vietnam in January 1972 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk ...

Joseph Kernan, Vietnam P.O.W. and Indiana Governor, ... On May 7, of that year, his RA-5C Vigilante, a supersonic attack spy plane on a mission to record damage from an earlier bombing, ...