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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-483656

Soviet-Built MiG-15 jet fighter


Is shot down by a Navy fighter over Korea.
Photo is dated 17 March 1953, at a time when no enemy planes were shot down by U.S. Navy pilots. This MAY be one of two MiG-15s shot down on 18 November 1952 by VF-781 F9F-5s from USS Oriskany (CVA-34).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 43KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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22 November 1999