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Description: An air-to-air right side view of an Egyptian air force McDonnellDouglas F-4E Phantom II aircraft in formation with a 347th Tactical Fighter Wing F-4E aircraft during exercise PROUD PHANTOM in 1980. Egypt received 36 F-4Es under the Peace Pharaoh project as a reward from the USA after signing camp-David peace agreement. The first batch of 18 fighters arrived in Egypt in October 1979. The Egyptian Phantoms were ex-USAF aircraft previously flown by the 31st TFW based at Homestead AFB. They were initially operated No. 76 and 88 squadrons of the 222nd Fighter Regiment.
Title: F-4E Egypt 347TFW
Credit:   This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 6345768. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文(简体) | 中文(繁體) | +/−
Author: USAF
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