Vietnam-era F4s with bowhunting in insignia?

[Benny Nganabbarru]

G'day,

I was just watching a History Channel documentary about fighter planes, and I think I spied a shield on the side of a Vietnam War F4 Phantom which had a buck deer and a recurve-armed bowhunter on the side. Does anyone know anything more about this? Or am I seeing wrong?

Thanks for helping my curiosity!

Ben

[ishiwannabe]

I have no idea, but I want to know what the title of the show was.

Sounds interesting.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

It was called "The Bloodiest Day" (part of a History Channel series about the history of air-to-air combat).

[OkKeith]

Ben,

I googled and yahooed. I think I might even have binged a little as well. Found a whole lot of nose art, but none similar to what you mentioned. I think each individual pilot was apt to put their own brand of art on the nose.

Unless it was some sort of divisional insignia, I bet that plane was one of a kind. Sounds cool though.

Along those lines the old WWII pin up style is some of my favorite art! Course I am a bit of a RAT RODDER at heart anyway.

Good luck with the search.

OkKeith

PS The US military has a helicopter designated as the The AH-64D Apache: Longbow. Cool name for a way cool bird.