Description
P-2H Neptune over Soviet ship Oct 1962.jpg
A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H
Neptune
(BuNo 140986) of patrol squadron VP-18
Flying Phantoms
flying over a Soviet freighter.
The freighter is most probably the
Okhotsk
, which left the port at Nuevita carrying 12 IL-28 airplanes on 5 December 1962 ; see
[1]
,
[2]
,
[3]
.
Date
Source
Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons Volume 2: The History of VP, VPB, VP(H) and VP(AM) Squadrons
[4]