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Date: | Tuesday 15 January 1952 |
Time: | 14:30 |
Type: | North American F-86E-1 Sabre |
Owner/operator: | USAF |
Registration: | 50-585 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 5 mi from Sukchon -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKSW |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-86E-1 50-585 flown by 1th Lt Vernon L.Wright(51th FIW, 25th FIS)Shot down by MiG-15bis of the 196th IAP(324th IAD)flown by Col Yevgeni Pepelyayev.Vernon L.Wright bail out, captured and POW.Repatraited Sep 5, 1953. 1th Lt Vernon L.Wright F-86 was the last victory of Pepelyayev in his combat tour in the Korean War.
Sources:
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/korea/reports/air/ L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,X.Zhang, Korwald,V.Zabelin,M.Mikhin,Y. Pepelyayev,S.Kramarenko.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Apr-2011 01:50 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |