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To: Right Winged American

“I also learned this week that the F-4U is the only piston-engined fighter to shoot down a jet fighter. It happened against a Mig-15 during the Korean War.”

P-51’s recorded kills against German ME 262s several years earlier.


104 posted on 01/25/2009 8:12:45 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Ivan Kozhedub of the USSR seems to have had an Me-262 kill in a Lavochkin-7 as well.


105 posted on 01/25/2009 8:24:47 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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