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Date: | Wednesday 24 October 1951 |
Time: | 15:17 |
Type: | North American F-86E-5 Sabre |
Owner/operator: | USAF |
Registration: | 50-682 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Near Sinanju -
North Korea
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKSS |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-86E-5 50-682 flown by Lt Fred T. Wicks(4th FIW, 336th FIS)shot down by MiG-15bis of the 523th IAP(303th IAD)flown by Dmitri A. Samoylov.50-682 was damaged before, the same month by MiG, Oct 12, 1951, but was repaired.Lt Fred T. Wicks captured and POW.Repatraited Sep 2, 1953.
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,Summary No. 0382 from the 64th IAK,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] |