Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

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Starfires in formation AORP
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FJ-1s of VF-5A preparing for launch from USS Boxer March 1958 USNA
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1948, not 1958.

VF-5A conducted suitability trials aboard Boxer from 10 March 1948 to sometime after 21 March 1948.

VF-5A was redesignated VF-51 on 16 August 1948.

VF-51 went aboard Boxer again in May 1949.

All FJ-1s were retired in 1953.

Boxer was the jet suitability training carrier in 1948-49.
 

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