F-104C "FG-908" 476th TFS "Blue Knights" refuelling high over Spain 1959, one stripe behind the cockpit marking a flight commander aircraft

F-104C, construction number 183-1196, model 483-04-05, US serial number 56-0908, built by Lockheed
delivery date December 18, 1958; 479th TFW, 476th TFS Moron AB, Spain 1960
hit by ground fire on a bomb run with 2 "M-117" 750 lbs bombs on July 22, 1965
with 436th TFS, attached to 6252nd TFW
crashed after a gear up emergency landing at Chu Lai MCAS, Vietnam
battle-damaged aircraft swerved off the runway into a sand dune after gear up landing
pilot Capt (Major select) Roy James Blakeley was killed (KIA)
the unit operated out of DaNang AB, Vietnam, attached to the 6252nd TFW, written off.

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