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COLD WAR

American and NATO victory credits



  The Cold War context

According Western concept, the intruding bombers or reconnaissance aircraft were not initially shot down, they were shepherded away from the forbidden sector and at the very most forced to land. More often NATO fighter pilots contented one self with photographic shot of the intercepted planes.

  Victory claims

The informations about claims in this context are very difficult to acquire. Different cases:
A few claims during official clashes.
The classified kills in places where the fighter was not allowed to be.
The forced-downs after bomber, fighter, recce aircraft or civil planes interceptions.


  The lists

All the lists present the following data:
Name and (when known) first name are presented with arbitrary choice for the spelling (russian, german, arab names...).
RANK of the pilot: see the rank page for the meaning of the abbreviations and the equivalence.
According to the pages, COUNTRY, NATION for the nationality or ethnic origin, AIR_SERVICE for the air arm, are provided.
The number of victories represents usually the total of kills (individual plus shared). The shared kills are indicated when known under the form [indiv+shared]. The official score is indicated when different from the total (American and British scores of ww2 for example).
Authors of the SOURCES column are given; report to the bibliography page to find the books, articles, web pages in alphabetical order. The OTHER_SOURCES column presents the divergent scores with sometimes the author of the source.
The DETAIL column shows occasionally the type of kill, balloons, V-1s, ground kills, unconfirmed kills...
The NOTE column exposes different commentaries and for lack of space, abbreviations are used: report to the abbreviation page for their meaning.




Updated: 22/03/2008

Rank First Name Name Country Victories Sources Detail Air Service Units Death Note Other Sources
1Lt Bertram Eric BEECROFT USA 1 D.Lednicer USAF 335FIS F-86, 1 MiG-15, Yellow Sea, 1954.
FLt BOYENS Great Britain 1 M.C.Bennett (auto-shoot) RAF 1 Sq Harrier GR3, 1979.
Ens Richard R. CROOKS USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VF-54 AD-4, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
Ltjg John L. DAMIEN USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VF-54 AD-4, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
Lt DE FOUCAUD France 1 M.C.Bennett (auto-shoot) Armée de l'Air Mystère pilot, 1973.
Maj J. D. FOWLER USA 1 USAF 1 incontroled Matador TM-61.
Capt Robert K. FULTON USA 1 D.Lednicer USAF 35FBS F-86, 1 shared PLAAF MiG-15, 1955. 2
Capt Junyo HINO Japan 1 M.C.Bennett (by mistake) JASDF 6th Kokudan F-15J, his wingman by mistake, 1995.
SLdr Roy LAWRENCE Great Britain 1 M.C.Bennett (accidental shoot) RAF 92Sq F-4M, 1 Jaguar, 1992.
Capt D. A. G. LOZANO Spain 1 M.C.Bennett (auto-shoot) Ejercito del Aire Ala 11 Mirage IIIEE, auto-shoot, 1979.
Lt R. H. MANSFIELD USA 1 M.C.Bennett (self-shoot) USN VA-212 A-4 pilot, 1966.
S. OSBORN USA 1 USN VQ-1 EP-3 pilot, PLAAF J-8 collision, 2001.
1Lt Burt C. PHYTHYON USA 1 D.Lednicer USAF 35FBS F-86, 1 shared PLAAF MiG-15, 1955. 2
Ltjg Richard S. RIBBLE USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VF-54 AD-4, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
FO Brendan J. ROBERTS Australia 1 M.C.Bennett (auto-shoot) RAAF 3 Sq Mirage III-0 pilot, 1968.
Ltjg John M. ROCHFORD USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VF-54 AD-4, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
1stLt Charles D. SALMON USA 1 D.Lednicer USAF 335FIS F-86, 1 MiG-15, Yellow Sea, 1955.
LtCdr Edgar B. SALSIG USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VC-3 F4U-5N, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
W. G. 'Tank' SHERMAN USA 1 M.C.Bennett (auto-shoot) USN Naval Missile Centre F-14A, 1973.
Lt Roy M. TATHAM USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VF-54 AD-4, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
Ltjg Paul I. WAHLSTROM USA 1 D.Lednicer USN VF-54 AD-4, 1 shared Chinese La-7, 1954.
Capt George F. WILLIAMS USA 1 D.Lednicer USAF 335FIS F-86, 1 MiG-15, Yellow Sea, 1955.
Table: American and NATO victory credits


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