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III Corps
Tough to find but this is an image of the chubby Navy version before the Navy CANXed the program.
The reason the F-111B (The Navy airplane) looks "chubby" is interesting. It actually is dimensionally the same as the Air Force airplane except the nose
forward of the windscreen is shorter.
They had to do that to make the fuselage short enough to fit on the carrier's hangar-deck elevator.
And that makes it look like it has baby-fat.