The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom is arguably the single best and most famous third-generation jet fighter. It served the United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps faithfully from the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s and early 1970s to the 1991 Persian Gulf War AKA Operation Desert Storm.
(NOTE: McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997; however, unlike, say, the merger of Lockheed with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995, or the 1994 merger of Northrop and Grumman to form Northrop Grumman...