F-104C "FG-908" (56-0908) 434th TFS "Red Devils" in the early colorful markings

F-104C, serial number 56-0908, construction number 1196

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 (after a CAS mission) swerved off the runway into a sand dune after gear up landing, pilot Capt Roy James Blakeley was killed (KIA)
operated out of DaNang AB, Vietnam, attached to 6252nd TFW, written off.

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