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Here's an interesting photo. The brand-new nuclear-powered futuristic-looking aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN 65) in 1961 with anachronistic propellor-driven AD (new A-1) Skyraiders on deck loaded for bear. Which illustrates why the A-1 stayed around so long; it had two outstanding attributes: Load-carrying capability and endurance in the air that the jets of the time could not match.

But then Vietnam happened and the A-1 proved to be too vulnerable to air defenses and was removed from carrier air wings.