SHOOTING AT FLYING FISH - PART 8

The punchline’s at the end…

With the “smoking gun” evidence, a retaliatory air strike against the four North Vietnamese torpedo boat bases and an oil storage depot near Vinh was ordered as Operation Pierce Arrow. Ticonderoga launched four F-8s and 12 A-4s led by CAG Stockdale and VA-56 CO McDonald at 1043 hours local time on August 5, to hit the oil stor…