Neptune’s Short-Lived Kingfisher

70 years ago today, 3 April 1956, off Virginia. Official period caption: The U.S. Navy’s Air-to-Surface Guided Missile Petrel is shown suspended from the wings of a P2V Neptune aircraft. Petrel was designed primarily for use against enemy ships at sea and can be launched by patrol aircraft well outside the range of the target’s air defense. The missile attacks