The Number 5
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Kills: 12 (2)
Plane Types ( Main Kill/Comments): 2 B-29s
Recived the: Hero of the Soviet Union, # ?
Unit:176 GIAP (Fighter Regiment), 324 IAD (Fighter Division) of the Voyenno Vozdushnye Sily, the Soviet Air Force.
On 7th of April 1951 an unknown number of B-29s escorted by 48 F-84Es of the 27th FEAF visited the Yalu bridges. A force of about thirty MiG-15s of the 176th GvIAP soon confronted Superfortress crews. Despite the efforts of the escorting Thunderjet pilots the MiG-15bis of Kapetan Ivan V. Suchkov passed through the fighter screen and blasted one B-29 out of the sky but lost one MiG of the formation to the F-84 escorts.
These images were captured by the guncamera of the MiG-15 Fagot piloted by Captain Ivan V. Suchkov (176th GvIAP, 324th IAD), and show the victory
scored by this pilot against a B-29 bomber of the FEAF(Far East Air Force) on April 7th 1951.
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Kills: 12 (2)
Plane Types ( Main Kill/Comments): 2 B-29s
Recived the: Hero of the Soviet Union, # ?
Unit:176 GIAP (Fighter Regiment), 324 IAD (Fighter Division) of the Voyenno Vozdushnye Sily, the Soviet Air Force.
On 7th of April 1951 an unknown number of B-29s escorted by 48 F-84Es of the 27th FEAF visited the Yalu bridges. A force of about thirty MiG-15s of the 176th GvIAP soon confronted Superfortress crews. Despite the efforts of the escorting Thunderjet pilots the MiG-15bis of Kapetan Ivan V. Suchkov passed through the fighter screen and blasted one B-29 out of the sky but lost one MiG of the formation to the F-84 escorts.
These images were captured by the guncamera of the MiG-15 Fagot piloted by Captain Ivan V. Suchkov (176th GvIAP, 324th IAD), and show the victory
scored by this pilot against a B-29 bomber of the FEAF(Far East Air Force) on April 7th 1951.
Everybody's equal, But some more than others!
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
