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Phantom
Manufacturer : McDonnell Douglas
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor fighter/fighter-bomber produced for the U.S. Navy by Mcdonnell Douglas. It became a major part of the United States Navy, Marine Corps and American Air Force. The Phantom F-4 saw service with all American forces during the Vietnam war serving as a fighter and ground attack aircraft. The Phantom first saw service in 1960 but continued in service until the 1980’s (being replaced by the F-15 and F-16 ) The last Phantoms saw service during the Gulf war in 1991 being used for reconnaissance. Other nations also used the Phantom to great success. The Israeli Air Force used them during various Arab-Israeli wars and the Phantom also saw service in the Iranian Air Force during the Iran Iraq War. Phantom production ran from 1958 to 1981, with a total of 5,195 built. The Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy flew versions based on the F-4. The British Phantoms were powered by Rolls Royce Spey engines and also received British avionics, under the names pf Phantom FG.1 and Phantom FGR.2. The last British Phantoms served with 74 Squadron until they were dispanded in 1992. |
Phantom
Phantom II by David Pentland. (PC) | Shadowing the Bear - Tribute to No.43 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. (PC) | Gear Up - Go! by Ivan Berryman. (PC) | Double Strike by Robert Taylor. |
Phantom Artwork Collection |
Phantoms F-4 by R E Pierce. (P) | Colonel Robin Olds by Ivan Berryman. | Gear Up - Go! by Ivan Berryman. |
Shadowing the Bear - Tribute to No.43 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. | Clipped Signature - Robin Olds. | Clipped Signature - George Fenton. |
Clipped Signature - Grant Taylor. | Phantom FGR 2 of III Squadron by Geoff Lea. | Phantom II by David Pentland. |
Reunion Over Hanoi by Philip West. | Yankie Station by Randall Wilson. | USS Coral Sea by Ivan Berryman. |
Phantom Fury by Robert Taylor. | Launch at Sundown by Philip West. | Screaming Eagle by Philip West. |
Showtime 100 by Philip West. | Phantom Thunder by Philip West. | Ark Royal by Philip West. |
Phantom Raiders by Simon Atack. | Flying the Jolly Roger by Robert Watts. | Phantom Showtime by Robert Taylor |
Tigers Roar by Robert Tomlin. | Phantom Country by Simon Atack. | Silver Kite 211 by Philip West. |
Double Strike by Robert Taylor. | High Flying Aardvarks by Keith Aspinall. | Mutual Support by Michael Rondot. |
Phantom Farewell by Michael Rondot. | Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces. | Phantom Strike by Robert Taylor. |
Phantom Launch by Robert Taylor. | Flight of the Phantom by Stan Stokes. | Vietnam War Veteran by Stan Stokes. |
Top Aces for : Phantom | ||
A list of all Aces from our database who are known to have flown this aircraft. A profile page is available by clicking the pilots name. | ||
Name | Victories | Info |
Marion Eugene Carl | 18.50 | The signature of Marion Eugene Carl features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Robin Olds | 13.00 | The signature of Robin Olds features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Randall H Cunningham | 5.00 | The signature of Randall H Cunningham features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Willie Driscoll | 5.00 | The signature of Willie Driscoll features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Richard 'Steve' Ritchie | 5.00 | The signature of Richard 'Steve' Ritchie features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Phantom Squadron details |
555th Tactical Fighter Squadron Country : US | 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron Served in Vietnam |
No.19 Sqn RAF Country : UK Known Codes : , QV, WZ, | No.19 Sqn RAF Possunt quia posse videntur - They can because they think they can |
No.43 Sqn RAF Country : UK Known Codes : , FT, NQ, SW, | No.43 Sqn RAF Gloria finis - Glory is the end |
No.54 Sqn RAF Country : UK Known Codes : , KL, DL, HF, | No.54 Sqn RAF Audax omnia perpeti - Boldness to endure anything |
No.92 Sqn RAF Country : UK Disbanded 1st October 1994 Known Codes : , GR, QJ, DL, 8L, | No.92 Sqn RAF East India Aut pugna aut morere - Either fight or die |
Phantom Pilot and aircrew signature details |
Brigadier General Yoram Agmon Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Yoram Agmon An Ace with 6 ictories in total, 2 in the Mirage and 4 in the Phantom, he gained the IAFs first ever kill in the Mirage and the world's first victory over a MiG21. |
Brigadier General Itzchak Amitay Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Itzchak Amitay Credited with 5 victories in the F-4 Phantom, including 3 in one day, he was only the third Navigator to become an Ace in the Phantom with the IAF. |
Brigadier General Abraham Ashael Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Abraham Ashael Credited with 2 victories in the F-4 whilst flying with pilot Meir Shani, he later became a PoW after being shot down and wounded, losing a leg. |
Brigadier General Uri Bakal Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Uri Bakal Whilst flying the Phantom he was on one occasion forced to eject after suffering a direct hit during a mission but managed to make it back to Israeli lines. |
Brigadier General Moshe Bartov Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Moshe Bartov He was officially credited with at least one aerial victory whilst flying the Phantom. |
Major General Avihu Ben-Nun Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Major General Avihu Ben-Nun He scored at least 4 victories, 2 in the F-4 Phantom and 2 in the Mirage and went on to become the Commanding Officer of the Israeli Air Force between 1987 - 1992. |
Brigadier General Shamuel Ben-Rom Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Shamuel Ben-Rom Officially credited with at least 2 victories in the F-4 Phantom, he scored 119 Squadron's first ever aerial victory in the Phantom. |
Major General Marion Carl Our estimated value of this signature : £55 Died : 1998 | Major General Marion Carl Born in Hubbard, Oregon on the 1st ofNovember 1915, Carl learned to fly when he was at college and went solo after only 2 and half hours of instrruction. Marion Carl went to Oregon State College to study engineering and graduated in 1938 as a Lieutenenat in the Army Reserve, but resigned his commission to become a naval aviation cadet and in December 1939 he received his 'wings of gold' and a Marine Corp commission. Marion Carl was posted to (VMF- 1) Marine Fighting Squadron One in Virginia at Quantico. In 1940 he became a instructor to train new pilots for Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221 ) at NAS North Island in San Diego, California. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on the 7th December 1941, Carl's squadron VMF-221 were preparing to embark aboard the USS Saratoga (CV-3) bound for Oahu, Hawaii. Carl along with the rest of the squadron were rushed to Hawaii and became part of the Wake Island Relief Task Force. He was still onboard the carrier Saratoga when the relief force was cancelled, and VMF-221 went to Midway Atoll on Christmas Day. Carl's first combat occured on June 4th 1942 during the Battle of Midway, when 15 of the 25 aircraft of VMF-221 were shot down but, Carl was credited with destroying one enemy aircraft, a Mitsubishi Zero. Carl was reassigned to VMF-223 Marine Fighting Squadron 223 which was commanded by a former squadron mate from VMF-221, Capt. John Smith. On August 20th, VMF-223 was deployed to Guadalcanal and was the first fighter sqaudron ashore with the Cactus Air Force. Between the end of August and the end of October Marion Carl became the Marines' first ace, when Carl had reached 16.5 victories though he was shot down once and was forced to bail out. It is believed Marion Carl was the pilot who shot down the famous Japanese Navy Tainan Kokutai ace Junicho Sasai over Henderson Field. By the end of the war Carl would increase his air victories to 18.5 victories. In 1947 he broke the speed record and in 1953 held the world altitude record. During a second test pilot tour, Carl set an unofficial altitude record of 83,000 feet in the Douglas D-558/II. He was the first pilot to be launched from a carrier by catapult. He had 490 hours in the Phantom I, flying combat recon flights over Red China. Commanding air wings in Vietnam in 1965, he took the First Marine Brigade to Danang, South Vietnam. Despite his seniority, he repeatedly flew combat missions in Helicopter gunships and jet fighters. General Carl received his second star as a Major General in 1967. In 1968 he commanded the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Herry Point until 1970. Subsequently he served as Inpector General of the Marine Corps until retiring in 1973. At that time he had logged some 13,000 flying hours, more than twice as much as most. He flew the F-4 regularly - one of the few Generals to do so. In 1998, on June 28th at age 82, Major General Marion Carl was shot to death with a shotgun during a robbery, defending his wife Edna from a home invader. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetary. |
Commander Randall H Cunningham USN Our estimated value of this signature : £45 | Commander Randall H Cunningham USN After joining the US Navy in 1966, Randy 'Duke' Cunningham went to Vietnam with VF96, flying the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. He became the conflict's first fighter Ace, and was to become one of the most highly decorated Aces of the war. With his RIO, Willie Driscoll, Duke achieved five victories in Vietnam, including 'three-in-a-day' on 10th May 1972. He later assumed command of the elite Navy Adversary Squadron of the Miramar Top Gun program. Retiring from the Navy, Duke was elected to Congress, where he now serves in the House of Representatives. |
Lieutenant Colonel Yair David Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Lieutenant Colonel Yair David He was shot down whilst flying the Phantom but was recovered after a daring Combat Search and Rescue mission. |
Commander Willie Driscoll USN Our estimated value of this signature : £20 | Commander Willie Driscoll USN Willie Driscoll joined the Navy in 1969, and flew with VF96 in Vietnam. Flying his first combat mission in November 1971, Willie went on to become an Ace flying with 'Duke' Cunningham, and completed 170 combat missions in the F4 Phantom. He also completed a total of 652 deck landings at that time. Flying with Cunningham on 10th May 1972, they shot down 3 MiGs, but themselves were shot down by a SAM the same day. Willie Driscoll went on to serve at the Top Gun program. |
Brigadier General Shlomo Egozy Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Shlomo Egozy He scored 10 victories, 2 in the Mirage and 8 in the F-4 Phantom, becoming Israel's second Phantom Ace, doing so in just two missions. He is the IAFs highest scoring F-4 Ace. |
Lieutenant Colonel Achikar Eyal Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Lieutenant Colonel Achikar Eyal Credited with at least 1 victory in the F-4 Phantom, the frst aerial victory for the IAF in the Phantom, he later spent 3 years as a PoW in Egypt. |
Brigadier General Yoel Feldsho Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Yoel Feldsho Scoring 4 victories, 1 in the F-4 Phantom and 3 in the F-15, he flew an F-15 on Operation Wooden Leg, the longest bombing mission ever staged (1280 miles) against the PLO HQ in Tunis in October 1985. |
Colonel Yehoar Gal Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Yehoar Gal Officially credited with 2 victories in the Phantom, he flew as back seater with pilots Eitan Peled and Dani Halotz. |
Colonel Shamuel Gordon Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Shamuel Gordon He scored at least 1 victory while flying the F-4 Phantom and was one of the first veteran Israeli Air Force pilots to transition to the F-16. |
Colonel Amnon Gurion Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Amnon Gurion Officially credited with 2 victories in the Phantom he spent much of his flying time with Navigator ace Itzchak Amitay as his back seater. |
Lieutenant General Dani Halotz Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Lieutenant General Dani Halotz He scored 3 victories in the F-4 Phantom including 2 in a single day and went on to become the Israeli Air Force Commanding Officer between 2005 - 2007 and later the Army Chief of Staff. |
Brigadier General Zvi Kanor Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Zvi Kanor Officially credited with at least 2 victoires in the F-4, he scored 119 Squadron's first ever victory in the Phantom. |
Captain John Madden Our estimated value of this signature : £20 | Captain John Madden Flying his first combat mission on 5th October 1965, leading fighter pilot John Madden flew three combat tours in Vietnam, notching up an impressive record of 3 kills and 1 damaged, flying F-4 Phantoms. On 28th August 1972 he was part of the same mission when Steve Ritchie made Ace status. That same year Madden led over 50 combat flights and he never lost a wingman. Flights under his leadership accounted for 5 enemy aircraft downed, and 1 damaged. He left Vietnam in 1975, and retired from the USAF in 1984. On Sept. 9, DeBellevue was flying with Capt. John Madden Jr. when they were making a turn to withdraw following an encounter with a lone MiG. That's when two MiG-19s swarmed in for an attack. 'We acquired the MiGs on radar and positioned as we picked up on them visually,' DeBellevue recalled later. 'We used a slicing low-speed yo-yo to position behind the MiG-19s and started turning hard with them. We fired one AIM-9 missile, which detonated 25 feet from one of the MiG-19s. We then switched the attack to the other MiG-19 and one turn later we fired an AIM-9 at him. I observed the missile impact the tail of the MiG. The MiG continued normally for the next few seconds, then began a slow roll and spiraled downward, impacting the ground with a large fireball. Our altitude was approximately 1,500 feet at the moment of the MiG's impact.' Madden and DeBellevue returned to their base thinking they had destroyed only the second MiG-19. An investigation, aided by the testimony of another aircrew, revealed that they were the only aircrew to shoot another MiG-19 which crashed and burned on the runway at Phuc Yen that day. DeBellevue was asked how he felt about becoming an ace. 'I feel pretty good about it. It's the high point of my career,' he said at the time. 'There's no other job that you have to put out as much for. It's frustrating, and yet when you do shoot down a MiG, it's so rewarding.' |
Colonel Naftali Maimo Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Naftali Maimo Scoring 3 victories in the F-4, he received the Distinguished Service Medal, Israel's second highest award for his actions during the Tanta mission and later commanded an A-4 unit in the Lebanon war. |
Brigadier General Amir Nachumi Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Brigadier General Amir Nachumi One of the IAFs foremost Aces with 14 victories, 7 in the F-4 Phantom and 7 in the F-16. His notable missions include 4 MiG kills on his first combat mission on the opening day of the Yom Kippur war and Operation Opera, the F-16 strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor. |
Brigadier General Robin Olds Our estimated value of this signature : £55 Died : 2007 | Brigadier General Robin Olds After leaving West Point in June 1943, Robin Olds was posted to the 479th Fighter Group in England, joining 434 Squadron. Based at Wattisham in East Anglia, and flying P-38s, he was involved in heavy bomber escort duties and fighter sweeps until the Normandy invasion, soon after which his Squadron converted to P51 Mustangs. by early 1945 Robin Olds was in command of 434 Squadron taking part in the Battle of the Bulge, flying escort missions, and providing air support to the airborne attack across the Rhine. At the end of World War II Robin Olds had 24.5 victories, of which 13 were in the air. Later in Vietnam Robin Olds gained four more victories, flying F4 Phantoms and flew with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing. Sadly, Robin Olds passed away on 14th June 2007. |
Colonel Eitan Peled Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Eitan Peled An Ace with at least 6 victories, all in the F-4 Phantom, he was the fourth Israeli pilot to reach Ace status while flying the F-4. |
Brigadier General Richard Steve Ritchie Our estimated value of this signature : £25 | Brigadier General Richard Steve Ritchie Born in June 1942 during World War Two, Steve Ritchie graduated and was commissioned from the USAF Academy in June 1964. He flew his first combat tour in Vietnam in 1968 on Fast FAC operations, before transferring to the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing for his second tour. It was with the 555th TFS - the famed 'Triple Nickel' Squadron, that he achieved Ace status. His first kill came on 10th May 1972 when he downed a MiG-21 forty miles south west of Hanoi, with his second a few weeks later just thirty miles south of the Chinese border. At the beginning of July he downed two MiG-21s west of Hanoi. It must have been his lucky area for on 28th August he scored his fifth and final victory in the same spot, thus becoming the only pilot Ace of the Vietnam War in the USAF, and the last US pilot to achieve Ace status. |
Lieutenant Colonel Don Ross Our estimated value of this signature : £30 | Lieutenant Colonel Don Ross Don Ross flew Spitfire Vbs with the second American Eagle Squadron, 121 Squadron. By the time the squadron transferred to the 357th Fighter Group in September 1942 he had already completed 72 combat sorties. Shot down in February 1944 he became a POW until May 1945. He flew combat in Korea, and then F-4 Phantoms in Vietnam. |
Colonel Dani Shaki Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Dani Shaki He scored 3 victories in the F-4 Phantom over Egyptian MiGs, all on his first combat mission when he and Amir Nachumi were the first two aircraft to scramble as the Yom Kippur war broke out. |
Major Meir Shani Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Major Meir Shani He flew Phantoms with Abraham Ashael as his back seater and both were later shot down becoming PoWs. |
Brigadier General Iftach Spector Our estimated value of this signature : £20 | Brigadier General Iftach Spector a Double Ace with a minimum of 12 victories, at least 8 in the Mirage and 4 in the Phantom. |
Colonel Eli Tovel Our estimated value of this signature : £10 | Colonel Eli Tovel Whilst flying as back seater on Phantoms he was on one occasion shot down by enemy fire and forced to eject, but was later recovered. |
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