MiG-15 shot down
{{en|Fifth Air Force, Korea--Smoke pours from a swept-wing Russian built MIG-15 as bullets spatter from the blazing machine guns of a U.S. Air Force F-86 "Sabre" jet pilot. Photographs, such as this, printed from actual gun camera film, plus written statements of jet pilots who witness the "kill" must be evaluated before official confirmation or credit may be given. The white ribbon in the photograph is a river somewhere below MiG Alley. AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM#: 86338 AC
- Date
- 1953-02-01
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,450 × 1,890 pixels
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