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Color slide depicting an aircraft with grafitti on the flight deck
Phantom Taxiing
Color slide depicting an aircraft with grafitti on the flight deck
Color slide depicting an aircraft with grafitti on the flight deck

Phantom Taxiing

Object NameTransparency, Slide
Historic Owner
Association
Date1967–68
PeriodCold War; Vietnam War
Mediumcardboard, film
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of RD2 Fred Lugar. P2017.02.311
Object numberP2017.02.311
DescriptionSlide, Color; Square image looking down from the island on a McDonnell DouglasF-4 Phantom II taxing down the flight deck of USS Intrepid. The plane has been painted or tagged by the crew members of Intrepid after it landed on the wrong ship. The plane is from VF-161 on the USS Coral Sea. Graffiti includes “Fly 3”, “VA-145”, “VA-34”, “ADJ-3”, “HC-2 Det”, “Mar-Det // V-1 Div.”, and the blue blaster’s logo is on the side. A crew member in a green jersey is walking next to the plane. The water off the ship is calm. There are small black discolorations throughout the image and two fingerprint smudges in the upper left.

Slide mount has “Ektachrome” printed twice in blue on one side.

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