A-6A Intruder

[dsahling]

Does anyone have some good photos of A-6As from the top down wearing the light gull grey over white (i.e. Vietnam Era) showing some good weathering? I'm going to do an A-6A from Vietnam soon and wanted to know how they weathered and were touched up while at sea.

Thanks

Dan

[tony.t]

The shots are scanned yearbooks but contain some gem pictures. Just look for the relevant carrier, year and Intruder Atkron...

http://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/

HTH

T

[ziggyfoos]

Here's some cruisebook photo examples, not the best quality though. From what I've seen of Vietnam A-6s the majority of the topsides seemed relatively clean (not gummed all over weathered with black soot everywhere)

VMA-AW-533 1972-73 (check out the red MERs, I assume borrowed from VMFA-232):

VA-196 1971-72 (A-6B too, and 511 looks like the intake warning has sharkteeth?):

This is probably the scummiest underside I've come across so far, this is VMA-AW-225 from 1970:

Edited August 2, 2016 by ziggyfoos