Heads up, Naval Aviators....
Some years ago I inquired regarding a USN aviation battle during the Korean War, there was no feedback.
Recently, I found a You Tube" post by a Carroll Ward {]USN Pilot - retired], that shed light on the incident.
It seems that the USS ORISCANY & the USS HELENA were operating off the Korean peninsula and did a strike on a NK harbor and
later in the day noticed a flight of seven M15's departing the Vladivostok area and turned towards the USS ORISKANY and group,
A four plane flight was launched and climbed thru clouds and confirmed the seven contrails heading towards them, the third and fourth planes were recalled for a mechanical situation and the first& second with ahead, until recalled to establish a "air defense perimeter over the ships".
The flight lead, eventually made contact and damaged one mig and received fire from two others, engaged those and recieved fire from his 6-oclock, after expending his ammo.
The author of the website, meet with the pilot at a recent "Tail Hook" event and got the complete story and located Russian documents confirming the story. of four down aircraft by a single USN pilot. It was buried so to prevent wwIII breaking out of "a simple police action".
So, now there a petition for up-grading the SILVER STAR the pilot was awarded to the CMH, but the paperwork is stalled by inaction, of a Biden appointee, due to the sphincter tightening situation of the recent Joseph Biden asinine debacle.
Review the You Tube presentation, and consider getting involved.
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