 Although operated in USAF markings, these aircraft (which included German-built aircraft) were owned by West Germany.They continued in use until 1983.At dawn on 6 September 1965, Flight Lieutenant Aftab Alam Khan of Pakistan claimed an Indian Dassault Mystère IV over West Pakistan and damaged another, marking the start of aerial combat for the F-104 in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.