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The first MiG, however, had gone after the other pair of Skyraiders. “Our only hope was to get down low and try to out turn the MiGs.” Johnson, who was leading the second pair of Skyraiders when they spotted the enemy jets.
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“At 12,000 feet and 170 knots we looked like Tweety bird to Sylvester the Cat,” remembered Lt. Navy attack squadron VA-25, “The Fist of the Fleet,” off the carrier USS Midway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Instead, they met ghosts out of the past: four gleaming white, straight-winged, single-seated propeller planes, Douglas A-1H Skyraiders of U.S. The pilots of two MiG-17s from the North Vietnamese 921st Fighter Regiment thought a force of America’s most advanced combat aircraft would arrive to rescue the downed plane’s crew. On June 20, 1965, a McDonnell F-4C Phantom II was hit by a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 near Ta Chan in northwest North Vietnam and became the first Phantom shot down in the war.
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Air Force jet pilots learned they wouldn’t have it so easy. Three and a half months after the first American combat troops, two battalions of Marines, waded ashore without resistance at Da Nang, U.S.
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