F9F Panther against Mig-15, Korea.

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Probable from this episode: “On 18 November, as the bridge campaign continued, F9Fs from USS Leyte (CV-32) and USS Valley Forge (CV-45) each got another MiG-15, bringing the Navy's total to three.”

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Love the F9F. Rather see it modeled than a sabre. Royce Williams's F9F-5 was hit by 23mm shells that left 263 holes in his plane and made it back to base after shooting down four MiG-15s.

 

A Secret for 40 Years: Navy Jets Secretly Battled Russian Jets in a Siberian Snow Storm

 

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The Navy pilot would learn that an NSA surveillance unit on the cruiser USS Helena had been spying on the Soviet radio chatter; it had both warned of the approaching MiGs and had learned that three had been shot down, and a damaged fourth jet flown by Cpt. Viktor Belyakov had fatally crash landed in the Soviet Union. Royce had achieved an unheard-of feat—in one thirty-five-minute skirmish he either equaled or exceeded all the MiGs shot down by other Panther pilots throughout the Korean War.

 

 

The USS Oriskany being sunk as an artificial reef.