MiG-15 is shot down by US Navy planes over Korea c1952
A Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter is shot down by a U.S. Navy fighter over Korea. The 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 Grumman F9F-5 Panthers of Fighter Squadron 781 (VF-781) from the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34).
- Date
- 1952-11-18
- Photographer / author
- USN
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
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- image
- Original size
- 5,707 × 4,234 pixels
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