F-4D Phantom II Major Dan Cherry MiG Killer

Then Major Dan Cherry was flying this F-4D, 66-7550, on 16 April 1972 when BASCOO flight encountered and shot down three North Vietnamese MiG-21’s while on a MIGCAP mission near Hanoi. Brigadier General Cherry retired from the Air Force in 1988. Through a television show in North Vietnam B/G Cherry met the pilot of the MiG-21 shot down in April 1972. The MiG-21 Fishbed pilot Nguyen Hong My and B/G Cherry have become very good friends and B/G Cherry wrote a book called My Enemy/ My Friend: A Story of Reconciliation from the Vietnam War. This aircraft has been preserved and now sit in the Aviation Heritage Park in Bowling Green Kentucky. The River Rat Museum honoring US aircrews is now open across from where F-4D 550 is on display.