HMS Coventry (D118)
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HMS Coventry was a Type 42-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 197
HMS Coventry
En route to the Falklands Islands in 1982
Memorial to the dead of HMS Coventry in Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
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The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat, subsonic, carrier-capable, light attack aircraft designed and produced by American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, later built by McDonnell D
HMS Coventry (D118)
…at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 1978. She was sunk by Argentine Air Force Douglas A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft on 25 May 1982 during the Falklands War while the destroyer was acting as a decoy from the amphibious landings in San Carlos water. The…
A U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk of VA-164, from USS Oriskany, en route to attack a target in North Vietnam, 21 November 1967
The XA4D-1 prototype in 1954
The second production A4D-1
A4D Skyhawk with the rear fuselage removed and an engine being slid into place, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 1959