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mitch96

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7. this stuff goes way back

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 13, 2018, 11:53 AM

Feb 2018

During the Korean war, Russian pilots flew MIG's against our F-86 pilots.. Koreans did not have much experience and there was a gaggle of ex WW2 russian combat pilots looking for work.. Reports of dead MIG pilots with red hair tipped us off... Later on, info came out that the russian pilots were told not to fall into American hands and kill them selfs instead..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_the_Korean_War

http://acepilots.com/russian/rus_aces.html

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