Combat Logbook

The training is over and a new category of "kind of flight code" has appeared in the log: "V", which stands for combat reconnaissance flights.

Each flight type is encoded by a three character string:

• first character is a number indicating conditions of flight. E.g., 1= day visual

• Second character is a letter designating the general purpose of the flight (e.g., V- recce as mentioned above)

• The third character is a number indicating the specific purpose of the flight. For general purpose V, entries could be

  1. photographic reconnaissance

  2. radar and ECM reconnaissance, radar mapping, etc.

  3. Gunfire spotting, other visual

  4. Escort or cover of reconnaissance planes

Entries in the Flight Log

• • Reporting from the training squadron to an aircraft carrier on the line in the Gulf of Tonkin in a matter of days

  • Settling in- adapting to life aboard and aircraft carrier on the line

  • 1967-0620- First Time Downtown Recce over Haiphong at 12000,' something not done before. You suppose there was a reason for that?

  • 1967-07- July Intensity builds on line

  • A PECM Flight Even a "milk run" can get dicey

  • Coming Home The way home included an unexpected visit from an admiral.

Overall Operations

RVAH-12 Operations Summary and sample imagery for the squadron as a whole

Chronology of Air Wing Events Details and significant events of Carrier Air Wing 14 during the summer of 1967

Combat Flights