The Douglas A-3 Skywarrior often gets lost in the shuffle. Most have never heard of the Navy’s Cold War-era strategic bomber, despite the fact that the A-3 served for over three decades.

Curt Dosé that his turn had come in an incident described in A-3 Skywarrior Units of the Vietnam War by Rick Morgan: “Two SA-2s in echelon burst out of the undercast, having already dropped ...