In this incredible photo sequence (above and below) taken by Lieutenant Junior Grade Al Zink of Light Photographic Squadron 63, Lieutenant Jack Terhune of the Fighter Squadron 154 "Black Knights" ejects from his Vought F-8D Crusader (Bureau Number 147899) over the Gulf of Tonkin on October 14, 1965, during the squadron's first combat deployment to Vietnam aboard USS Coral Sea (CVA 43). Terhune, whose plane was hit by ground fire during a mission, was subsequently rescued safely. Note that the Crusader's canopy cleared the aircraft before Terhune, still strapped into his Martin-Baker ejection seat, emerged. A pilot or bombadier/navigator ejecting in a similar ejection seat from an A-6 Intruder, however, would have to smash through the aircraft's canopy on the way out. (Naval History and Heritage Command image) |
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