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#4619137 - 01/21/23 03:30 PM 70 years ago  
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes -- and kept it a secret for 50 years

Imagine accomplishing that, surviving it, and not being able to talk about it for 50 years.

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#4619143 - 01/21/23 04:22 PM Re: 70 years ago [Re: CyBerkut]  
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It's about time. The Soviet Union fell in 1991 for crying out loud, why did it take another 30+ years for this to come out and for Williams get his due?

Well done sir!


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#4619145 - 01/21/23 04:53 PM Re: 70 years ago [Re: CyBerkut]  
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Imagine accomplishing that, surviving it, and not being able to talk about it for 50 years.


nowadays folks would have it posted on FB or Twitter in seconds biggrin


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#4619147 - 01/21/23 05:35 PM Re: 70 years ago [Re: CyBerkut]  
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Read this book... it gives a great account from the pilot on exactly what happened.

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#4619295 - 01/24/23 02:34 PM Re: 70 years ago [Re: CyBerkut]  
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That’s a good book. I have also read his other Korean air war book, «MiG Alley.»


In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!

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