page_title: VAP-62
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: VAP-62 / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Navy Douglas A3D-2P Skywarrior (BuNo 144843) from Heavy Photographic Squadron 62 (VAP-62) in flight in the late 1950s. Note that the aircraft is still equipped with the gun turret.
context_page_description: VAP-62 was a Heavy Photographic Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Originally established as Photographic Squadron Sixty-Two on 10 April 1952, it was redesignated as Heavy Photographic Squadron on 2 July 1956. The squadron was disestablished on 15 October 1969.
context_section_description: 1 September–19 December 1952: A squadron detachment was deployed to Dhahran Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia.
  29 July 1960: During a landing aboard USS Saratoga (CV-60), the squadron’s commanding officer, Commander C. T. Frohne, and two other squadron crewmembers, were lost when the tailhook of their A3D-2P Skywarrior separated and the aircraft plunged off the deck into the sea.
  October 1966: The squadron transferred a detachment of aircraft and personnel to VAP-61 to augment that squadron’s operations in Vietnam.
  25 August 1967: A squadron RA-3B #144835 disappeared on a nighttime photo-reconnaissance mission, the 3 man crew were killed in action, body not recovered.
caption: VAP-62 A3D-2P Skywarrior in the late 1950s
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