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USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42 Ejections & Losses Please Contact Me with any omitted ejections, corrections, extra information and any pilot photos. Looking for other ejections from the USS America Date

21st August 1961

Air Force

USN

A'cft

Vought F8A Crusader

Unit/ Serial

based

145357

VF-ll USS Franklin D. Roosevelt

147677

VA-172 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

151109 AB 505

VA-72 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

crashed

arrester hook broke during heavy landing and aircraft went over side

crew

pilot ejected safely

photo

seat

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Vought or MartinBaker ?????

31st July 1966 USN

21st August 1966

21st August 1966

22nd August 1966

6th September 1966

10th September 1966

5th October 1966

A-4C Skyhawk

A-4E Skyhawk USN

A-4E Skyhawk

Operational loss

pilot recovered

Douglas

AAA; North Vietnam

LifisIErederiekR, Purrington ejected and recovered, [see also 20th October 1966]

Douglas

Hit by ground fire during an armed reconnaissance mission - five miles southwest of Thanh Hoa - other more likely cause hydraulics failure caused by ingestion of own ordnance debris

Lt Allan Russell Carpenter ejected over the Gulf of Tonkin and was picked up by a Navy helicopter [see also 1st November 1966 when he was shot down near Haiphong became a POW]

149992 AB 510

VA-72 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

own rockets; North Vietnam

U K G Craig ejected and recovered

144624

VFP-62 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

Photo recon mission over North Vietnam. Crashed about 20 miles east of the city of Thanh Hoa Province, North Vietnam. The aircraft impacted the water and sank, taking its pilot with it

pilot Lt. (jg) Norman Lee Bundy killed

132543

VAW-13 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

151109

USN

A-4E Skyhawk USN

USN

RF-8G Crusader

EA-1F USN

USN

F-4B Phantom II

152328

VA-72 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

VF-32 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

recovered no ejection seats fitted Operational loss

Operational loss

| Douglas

II

recovered

||

recovered

||

recovered

1

It. JG 3. J. Cunningham ejected and recovered

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Lt. Cdr. R. A. Fyles ejected and recovered

Lt._flalFre*BrfckR,

MartinBaker MartinBaker

USS Franklin D Roosevelt

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ejected and ROW 20th October 1966

A-4C Skyhawk USN

147775 AB 302

VA-172 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing

[see also 21 August AAA; North Vietnam

1966]

Douglas

VN

Cdr Allan R, Carpenter ejected and ROW

Douglas

Lt. E. 3. Ducharme

MartinBaker

Lt. W. A. Wood

MartinBaker

CVW-1

1st November

1966

A-4E Skyhawk

151138

USN

VA-72 USS Franklin D, Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing

CVW-1

3rd November

1966

F-4B

USN

12th November

1966

USN

USN

14th December

1966

VA-12

A-4E Skyhawk

155051

VA-12

A-4C

145116 AB

Skyhawk

304

VA-172 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

Skyhawk

E-1B

145143 AB 300

147218

USN

14th December 1966

150048

A-4C

2nd December

1966

A-4E Skyhawk

USN

2nd December 1966

VF-14

USN

12th November

1966

Phantom II

151018 AB-109

USN

A-4E

151068 AB

Skyhawk

513

VA-172 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing CVW-1

Operational loss. Ran out fuel

In collision with with A-4E Skyhawk 155051 Cdr. Robert Clarence Froslo - body not during a section approach recovered to the ship

In collision with with no ejection A-4E Skyhawk 150048 Lt. (jg) James Grady Jones - body not during a section approach recovered to the ship

Ensign Paul L. Worrell

MIA SAM, North Vietnam

PpW/MIAJJnk

SAM, North Vietnam

CVW-1

Cdr Bruce August Nystrom MIA PQW/MIAUnk

Carrier Air Early Warning Squadron 12 no ejection seats fitted (VAW-12),Detachment Operational loss. Engine failure. Ditched in South 42 China Sea USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 VA-172 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Air Wing

(wingman to Cdr.Nystrom see next entry)

SAM, North Vietnam

recovered recovered Lt. Cdr. Edwin Lee Kbenig killed Lt. (jg) Richard Lynn Mowrey killed Lt (jg) Gerald A. Holman killed Lt Claude David Wilson Jr. KIA