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Mike Marron wrote:
snip Captain Joseph M. ' Mac' McConnell is buried in a spot of honor in the Victorville Cemetery. his sixteen jet-vs-jet victories have not been surpassed to this day. Incorrect if you include foreign pilots. The IAF's number one ace, Giora Even, is credited with 17. There are excerpts from his diary for each of his kills on the IAF's own web page at http://www.iaf.org.il (I'm having some difficulty connecting to the english version at the moment -- I hope they haven't removed it). And some of the Russian pilots that flew in Korea are credited with more (N. Sutyagin is listed as 23 IIRR, as is Evgenii Pepelyaev in some sources), but the Soviet claim system includes group kills and is also more liberal than contemporary western kill criteria, judging by the research conducted by historians with access to both side's records from Korea. Guy |
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