Re: Larionov

["Diego Zampini" <dzampini@hotmail.com>]

Don:

>Diego:
>Wasn't it a Captain Nelson of "Charlie" flight who took out Larionov on
>9 July 1951? I believe this (or the next one?) made Nelson an ace. Want
>to verify?
>Don

You are right. Captain Milton E. Nelson (335 FIS, 4 FIW) was credited with a 
MiG kill that day, and he is the only claiminant who is a Sabre pilot (a 
gunner of a B-29 claimed 2 MiGs downed that day, something very unlikely, 
due to is a fact that only a 5-10% of gunners' claims can be finally 
confirmed). My apologies to Cookie for disturbing him, the data I looked for 
was in front of my eyes all the time.
But Nelson is not an ace: he have only 4 MiG kills in his score: one on May 
20 1951 (apparently an over-claim because the only MiG actually shot down 
that day was caught by James Jabara), the second one on June 26 (apparently 
his victim was Viktor Akapov), the third one on July 9 (evidently Larionov) 
and the last one on July 11. I don't know whether this last claim is 
confirmed by Soviet records or it is an over-claim.
Diego.

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