RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam (Osprey Combat Aircraft 12) by Peter Mersky
Osprey Publishing | March 1, 1999 | English | ISBN: 1855327821 | 96 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely presence of medium-range ballistic missiles on the Caribbean island.