Jeff - photo with no markings at
personal.riverusers.com/~elmccaul/ac131390.htm

As I wrote before, markings and paint variations appeared and
disappeared and on occasion were fictitious, depending upon the specific
mission - especially from 1955 thru mid-1960's when individual crews and
aircraft were tasked by the Special Projects Division, CNO.

And not just the "Q" and earlier (NCU, Detachment A, etc.) birds - the
VC squadrons' P2V-3C Neptunes (with tailhooks) were also tasked and flew
some out of short "secret" airfields; RATO/JATO takeoffs and arresting
wires stretched across the "runway" attached to heavy piles of junk,
which were simply dragged along the ground, then bulldozed back in
position.

Chuck (VC-8, VAH-1, FAITCLANT, VQ-2)



HEAVY ATTACK COMPOSITE (VC-5,6,7,8,9) WEBSITE
http://community.webtv.net/charles379/USNComposite

FAIRECONRON ONE AND TWO (VQ-1/2) CASUALTIES
http://www.anzwers.org/free/navyscpo...r_AirCrew.html