Tram Bac Oil Storage Area in North Vietnam under attack by A-4E Skyhawks on July 7th 1967

The Tram Bac OiI Storage Area located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam was attacked with 500 lb bombs by Douglas A-4E Skyhawks of Attack Squadron VA-212 on July 7th 1967.

Skyhawks were the U.S. Navy's primary light attack aircraft used over North Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam War; they were later supplanted by the A-7 Corsair II in the U.S. Navy light attack role. Skyhawks carried out some of the first air strikes by the US during the conflict. On May 1st 1967, an A-4C Skyhawk piloted by Lieutenant Commander Theodore R. Swartz of VA-76 aboard the carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, shot down a North Vietnamese Air Force MiG-17 with an unguided Zuni rocket as the Skyhawk's only air-to-air victory of the Vietnam War.