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Date: | Sunday 6 January 1952 |
Time: | |
Type: | North American F-86E-5 Sabre |
Owner/operator: | USAF |
Registration: | 50-655 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Near Cho-do island -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RKSS |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Shot down by MiG. F-86E-5 50-655(4th FIW 334th FIS)was flown by 1th Lt Lester F.Page(MIA) and was hit and damaged by the MiG-15bis flown by Kapt Nikolai V. Sutyagin from the 17 IAP 303 IAD.
Extensive aerial search revealed no information about the fate of 1th Lt Lester F.Page.
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,Y. Pepelyayev, S.Kramarenko.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Apr-2011 01:26 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |