US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A secret for 50 years

Re:US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A sec... by egberts1 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:37PM (#34468210)

First off, a direct interview of the said pilot shows no shotdown of four aircrafts.

direct source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SImG_7g-Lvg

Perhaps CNN or HN OP should find another line of work other than military history.

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Re:US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A sec... by jameshart on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:47PM (#34468309)

I mean, he doesn’t count them off, but he describes what he saw at the time - talks about the hits he saw, the planes he saw going down.

The CNN article actually says that four kills were only confirmed by the release of Soviet records in the 1990s, so even at the time he only thought he’d got three.

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