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Subject: Re: North American F-82 Twin Mustang pics [01/21] - 4e7efc0669def02162297f51344719d0.jpg
From: john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net>
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john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote in
news:XnsA6407BE2E6D4Djohnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131:
> Patriacia@homealone.com wrote in
> news:16KdncoHeNE6ixzKnZ2dnUU7-YXNnZ2d@giganews.com:
>
>> 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=1
> 7836 &page=1
>
Lt. William G. Hudson 68FS Yak-11 F-82 June 27, 1950
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