Phantom fury 1 and 212/14/2023 And one of those just itching to take it into combat was a young, then Captain, Steve Ritchie. The Air Force pilots just couldn't wait to get their hands on it. So impressed were the Air Force that they bought it too, and three years later, in 1964, the USAF received their Phantoms. Whether it was carrier-based attack with the Navy, land-based bombing missions with the Marines, air combat sorties, or Forward Air Control missions, it was unbeatable. And when it saw combat for the first time, in Vietnam in 1961, it was the lucky Navy and Marine Corps pilots who were the first to fly it. The F-4 Phantom was the benchmark against which every fighter in the world came to be judged it was simply the best. It may have been the size of many World War II bombers but it could outperform anything that crossed its path it was quicker, could turn faster, was better equipped with electronics, carried more ordnance than anything comparable, and it had an unbelievable rate of climb. The biggest, fastest, most powerful fighter of its day, the McDonnell Phantom was an awesome war machine that came to dominate aerial combat for over two decades. Be one of the first to own this remarkable print! All editions of this new release are selling very quickly and will likely sell out at the publisher soon. Not since Robert Taylor's "PHANTOM STRIKE" (which is long sold out and sells for upwards to $2500.00 on the secondary market) has there been such an amazing print of the F-4 Phantom.
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