"Kep Alpha Strike April 24 '67 sources" Topic

I'm researching this looking for detailed sources. Any suggestions?

The strike was launched from Kittyhawk, it was the first strike on Kep. Included a big furball with MiG-17s tying it up with F-4s.

I'm just looking for more details

I've have O'Connor's MiG Killers of Yankee Station and Elward's US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965-1970 and Red Baron Vol. I part III as sources

"Vietnam air losses" by Chris Hobson, Page 96 has some corroborating info to the sources you mention. It mentions a TARCAP of 6 aircraft which implies they were the ones that are mentioned as being hit by AAA on the way in.

The Kittyhawk history doesn't have much more:

"24 Apr 1967: Following a strike against Kep Airfield, North Vietnam, two VF-114 Phantom IIs engaged two flights of North Vietnamese Mikoyan Gurevich (MiG)-17 Frescos, one flight of four Frescos "low over the ground" and the other flight of three "directly ahead." The two Phantom IIs shot down a pair of Frescos with AIM-9B Sidewinder air-to-air missiles: LT Hugh D. Wisely, and LT(JG) David L. Jordon; and Linfield 210 (BuNo 153000), LCDR Charles E. Southwick, and ENS James W. Laing. Linfield 210, however, experienced fuel exhaustion and ditched in the sea, near 20º39'N, 107º13'E, both men being rescued by a Navy SAR helo. "