 
SA-2 Surface-to-Air Missile
DAYTON, Ohio -- SA-2 Surface-to-Air Missile on display in the Modern Flight Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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RF-4C shoot down
Series of a USAF RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft being shot down by an SA-2 on Aug. 12, 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capts. Edwin Atterberry and Thomas Parrott were captured after ejecting. Atterberry died in the hands of the North Vietnamese after an escape attempt and Parrott was released at the end of the war.(U.S. Air Force photo)
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RF-4C shoot down
Series of a USAF RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft being shot down by an SA-2 on Aug. 12, 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capts. Edwin Atterberry and Thomas Parrott were captured after ejecting. Atterberry died in the hands of the North Vietnamese after an escape attempt and Parrott was released at the end of the war.(U.S. Air Force photo)
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RF-4C shoot down
Series of a USAF RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft being shot down by an SA-2 on Aug. 12, 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capts. Edwin Atterberry and Thomas Parrott were captured after ejecting. Atterberry died in the hands of the North Vietnamese after an escape attempt and Parrott was released at the end of the war. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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RF-4C shoot down
Series of a USAF RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft being shot down by an SA-2 on Aug. 12, 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capts. Edwin Atterberry and Thomas Parrott were captured after ejecting. Atterberry died in the hands of the North Vietnamese after an escape attempt and Parrott was released at the end of the war.(U.S. Air Force photo)
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SA-2 surface to air missile
F-105 trailing smoke just after interception by an SA-2. The SA-2 did not actually hit an aircraft—the fuse automatically went off when it neared the target, throwing deadly fragments over a wide area. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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SA-2 surface to air missile
SA-2 missile in flight over Kep fighter base near Hanoi. U.S. pilots described the 35-foot long missiles as “flying telephone poles.” (U.S. Air Force photo)
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SA-2 surface to air missile
Taken over North Vietnam in January 1967, this photograph illustrates the difficulty of visually spotting a SAM site. Wild Weasels used specialized electronic equipment to find the SAM sites. Red arrows in closeup point to the six SA-2 launchers in revetments. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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SA-2 site
Distinctive star-shaped layout is evident in this SA-2 site in Cuba in November 1962. After the first Wild Weasel successes, the North Vietnamese began laying out the sites irregularly to make them harder to spot. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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