Patriacia@homealone.com wrote in
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> I remember two Air Force pilots (at Hill AFB) arguing if this type
> aircraft shot down the first enemy plane in the Korean war.
>
On June 25, 1950, North Korean troops, supported by Soviet-supplied tanks
and artillery, advanced across the 38th parallel, routing the lightly armed
South Koreans. The immediate tasks facing General of the Army Douglas
MacArthur's Far East Command and its air component, the Far East Air
Forces, were to provide equipment for the embattled South Koreans and to
evacuate the American noncombatants caught in the path of the Communist
offensive. Fighters and bombers of the Far East Air Forces contributed to
the evacuation by protecting the ships and aircraft carrying the refugees
to Japan. While covering the evacuation, 1st Lt. William G. Hudson, the
pilot of an F-82 Twin Mustang, scored the first aerial victory of the
Korean War by shooting down a Soviet-built fighter.
REF:
http://www.afhso.af.mil/afhistory/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=17836
&page=1
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