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Date: | Wednesday 16 July 1952 |
Time: | 17:58 |
Type: | North American F-86E-10 Sabre |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force (USAF) |
Registration: | 51-2797 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | "MiG Alley", NW part of North Korea -
North Korea
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Suwon (RKSW) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-86E-10 51-2797 (51th FIW, 25th FIS) flown by 1th Lt Richard S.Drezen.
Shot down by MiG-15bis of the 726th IAP(133th IAD) flown by Kapt N.I.Ivanov. Richard S.Drezen was KIA. That was the first victory of the future ace Kapt Ivanov.
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.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-May-2011 20:37 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Aug-2011 08:32 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |