Friday, June 13, 2008

Today In History: Itchy trigger finger, comrade.

On this date in 1952, a Soviet MiG-15 shot down a Swedish sigint DC-3 over the Baltic Sea, killing all eight crew members. The Commies denied splashing the plane for another four years.
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Anonymous said...

And not the last airliner they shot down and denied any knowledge of either. I doubt they used the same excuse, "It was an RC135 spying on our glorious motherland" but I'll bet that it was similar.

Gmac

1:16 PM, June 13, 2008

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