Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I te 30 o Tihema 1960, ko te VF-121 "Pacemakers" i NAS Miramar te kaiwhakahaere Phantom tuatahi me ona F4H-1Fs (F-4As). Ko te VF-74 "Be-devilers" i NAS Oceana ka waiho hei roopu Phantom tuatahi ka riro i a F4H-1 (F-4Bs) i te 8 o Hurae 1961. I whakaotihia e te kapa nga tohu kaikawe i te Oketopa 1961 me te whakarewatanga tuatahi o te kaikawe a Phantom i waenga i te Akuhata 1962 me te Poutu-te-rangi 1963 i runga i te Forrestal. Ko te tuarua o nga kaipuke o te US Atlantic Fleet i whakawhiwhia ki nga F-4B ko te VF-102 "Diamondbacks", i tere tonu te tango i a raatau rererangi hou i runga i te haerenga o te Enterprise. Ko te tuatahi deployable U.S. Pacific Fleet kapa ki te farii i te F-4B ko te VF-114 "Aardvarks", i whai wāhi i roto i te Mahuru 1962 cruise runga USS Kitty Hawk. I te wa o te Tonkin Gulf take, 13 o 31 deployable Navy kapa i patu ki te momo. Ko nga F-4B mai i te Constellation i mahi i te rerenga whawhai Phantom tuatahi o te Pakanga o Vietnam i te 5 o Akuhata 1964, e rere ana i te rererangi rererangi rererangi i roto i te Operation Pierce Arrow. Ko te toa rangi-ki-rangi Phantom tuatahi o te pakanga i puta i te 9 Paenga-whawha 1965 i te F-4B mai i te VF-96 "Fighting Falcons" i whakahaerehia e Lieutenant (rangatira rangatahi) Terence M. Murphy me tana RIO, Ensign Ronald Fegan, i pupuhi i te MiG-17 Hainamana "Fresco". I muri iho ka pupuhihia te Phantom, akene na te AIM-7 Sparrow mai i tetahi o ona parirau. Kei te haere tonu te tautohetohe mo te mea i patua te Phantom e nga pu MiG, i rite ranei ki nga ripoata a te hoariri i muri mai, he AIM-7 Sparrow III mai i tetahi o nga parirau a Murphy me Fegan. I te 17 o Hune 1965, he F-4B i VF-21 "Freelancers" piloted e Commander Louis Page me Lieutenant John C. Smith patua iho te tuatahi North Vietnamese MiG o te whawhai. I te 10 o Mei 1972, Lieutenant Randy "Duke" Cunningham me Lieutenant (rangatira rangatahi) William P. Driscoll rere i te F-4J, karanga tohu "Showtime 100", patua iho e toru MiG-17s ki te riro i te tuatahi American rere aces o te whawhai. I taua wā, i whakaponotia ko to rātau wikitoria tuarima i runga i tētahi rangatira ngaro o Vietnam ki te Raki, ko Kēnare Nguyen Toon, e kiia nei he pakiwaitara. I runga i...  Pātai: Āhea te wā i taea ai te Phantom te whakamahi?
8 Hōngongoi 1961