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Comment by jameshart

> like 8 MiG's

"four Soviet MiGs" (from the linked headline)

> back in the 40's

"On a cold November day in 1952" (linked article, paragraph 2)

> a guy

"Royce Williams" (linked article, literally the first two words), Navy Cross recipient and former US Navy pilot, not 'some guy'.

What kind of hasty carelessness causes you to share a link to a story, embellish it with details, but just screw up on key facts? Including, I might add, the rather significant difference in implication between a US pilot shooting down MiGs in the 1940s, when the Soviet Union was either an ally or a peacetime enemy, vs. the 1950s, when the Korean War happened.

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