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"On 17 December 1950 Lt.Col Bruce Hinton,336th commander shot
down a Mid-15 in the first ever all supersonic aerial combat. During this
conflict Rocketeers pilots racked up kills on 116 enemy aircraft."
Les
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:22
PM
Subject: Re: What is "MiG Alley"?
Jack,
I
think the inference was more like the legendary "Hogan's Alley" the FBI
trained their agents on. Whereever you go in there, somebody is going to pop
up and take a shot at you, and you better get them first.
By the way,
the Soviet pilots called it "The Sausage" due to what the diagrams looked like
on their maps (the restriction lines, which essentially gave them a comic
sausage shaped area to fly in along the Chinese-Korean border and a line from
Pyongyang to Wonsan.)
Cookie Sewell
AMPS
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