john Szalay john.szalayatatt.net wrote in
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I remember two Air Force pilots (at Hill AFB) arguing if this type
aircraft shot down the first enemy plane in the Korean war.


On June 25, 1950, North Korean troops, supported by Soviet-supplied
tanks and artillery, advanced across the 38th parallel, routing the
lightly armed South Koreans. The immediate tasks facing General of the
Army Douglas MacArthur's Far East Command and its air component, the
Far East Air Forces, were to provide equipment for the embattled South
Koreans and to evacuate the American noncombatants caught in the path
of the Communist offensive. Fighters and bombers of the Far East Air
Forces contributed to the evacuation by protecting the ships and
aircraft carrying the refugees to Japan. While covering the
evacuation, 1st Lt. William G. Hudson, the pilot of an F-82 Twin
Mustang, scored the first aerial victory of the Korean War by shooting
down a Soviet-built fighter.



REF:
http://www.afhso.af.mil/afhistory/fa...int.asp?fsID=1
7836 &page=1


Lt. William G. Hudson 68FS Yak-11 F-82 June 27, 1950