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Date: | Tuesday 25 September 1951 |
Time: | |
Type: | MiG-15 |
Owner/operator: | People's Liberation Army Air Force - PLAAF |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Over Anju -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | ZYDD |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:PLAAF. MiG-15 of the PLAAF 4th FAD, 12th regiment shot down by the F-86A-5 flown by 1th Lt Booth T. Holker(4th FIW, 334th FIS).This pilot, name unknown, was a wingman became separated of his leader, was hit several times, tried to bail out but he was too low and died in the attempt.USAF claims for the day were for five MiG destroyed(1x M.R.Creighton, 2x 1th Lt B.T.Holker, 1x 1th Lt C.F.Lloyd and 1x shared 1th Lt P.E.Roach and M.F.Babb), Soviet claims were for 3 F-86s(17th IAP, 523th IAP and 196Th IAP), and PLAAF 4th FAD 12 Regiment in his first mission of his third deployement in Korea claimed 1 F-86. Actually, One PLAAF MiG-15 was shot down and a second one was damaged. One F-86A-5(4th FIS, 334th FIS) was damaged.
Sources:
Air War Korea 1950-1953 / Robert Jackson, 1998
U.S. Air-to-Air Victories during the Korean War / ACIG Korean War Team -
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_307.shtml Fighter Combat over Korea Part 2: Jet Aces (In: Wings of Fame Vol.2, 1996)
L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,X.Zhang,N.Sutyagin,Y. Pepelyayev,S.Kramarenko.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Jan-2011 14:00 |
ASN archive |
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27-Apr-2011 15:49 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |