Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: On 30 December 1960, ari VF-121 "Pacemakers" pana NAS Miramar akava wokutanga Phantom opareta pamwe yayo F4H-1Fs (F-4As). The VF-74 "Be-devilers" pana NAS Oceana akava wokutanga deployable Phantom dzechikwata apo akagamuchira ake F4H-1s (F-4Bs) musi 8 July 1961. The squadron akapedza anotakura zvinodiwa muna October 1961 uye Phantom wokutanga zvizere anotakura deployment pakati August 1962 uye March 1963 mungarava Forrestal. Wechipiri deployable U.S. Atlantic Fleet dzechikwata kugamuchira F-4Bs aiva VF-102 "Diamondbacks", uyo nokukurumidza akatora ndege yavo itsva pamusoro shakedown rwendo pamusoro Enterprise. Yokutanga deployable U.S. Pacific Fleet squadron kugamuchira F-4B aiva VF-114 "Aardvarks", iyo muchirongwa September 1962 rwendo mungarava USS Kitty Hawk. Panguva Tonkin Gulf chiitiko, 13 31 deployable navy squadrons vakanga vakapakata mhando. F-4Bs kubva Constellation akaita wokutanga Phantom kurwa sortie weVietnam War musi 5 August 1964, kubhururuka bhomba escort muna Operation Pierce Arrow. Wokutanga Phantom mhepo-kuti-mhepo kukunda hondo kwakaitika musi 9 April 1965 apo F-4B kubva VF-96 "Kurwisa Falcons" piloted ne Lieutenant (junior giredhi) Terence M. Murphy uye RIO ake, Ensign Ronald Fegan, akapfura pasi Chinese MiG-17 "Fresco". The Phantom akabva apfurwa pasi, zvichida neAIM-7 Sparrow kubva kune mumwe wevarwi vayo. Panoramba paine gakava pamusoro pekuti Phantom yakapfurwa nepfuti dzeMiG here kana, sezvakataurwa nemishumo yevavengi gare gare, AIM-7 Sparrow III kubva kune mumwe wevarwi vaMurphy naFegan. On 17 June 1965, mumwe F-4B kubva VF-21 "Freelancers" piloted ne Commander Louis Page uye Lieutenant John C. Smith akapfura pasi wokutanga North Vietnamese MiG hondo. On 10 May 1972, Lieutenant Randy "Duke" Cunningham uye Lieutenant (junior giredhi) William P. Driscoll kubhururuka ane F-4J, kudanwa chiratidzo "Showtime 100", akapfura pasi vatatu MiG-17s kuva wokutanga American achibhururuka aces hondo. Kukunda kwavo kwechishanu panguva iyoyo kwaifungidzirwa kuva pamusoro pomunhu asinganzwisisiki weNorth Vietnamese, Colonel Nguyen Toon, zvino anorangarirwa sengano. Pamusoro pe...  Mubvunzo: Phantom yakatanga kushandiswa rini?
8 July 1961