[Chickensoup]

If only it was true.

Our government lies.

This is convenient propaganda.

[Wallace T.]

Do you think the U.S. government is inventing stories of past valor against the Soviets to kindle anti-Russian sentiment?

[PghBaldy]

It appears true. I searched for information before last year in old newspapers and found it somewhat easily in a 2020 (pre-2022 invasion) article:

https://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/a-david-and-goliath-dogfight/article_3df3e9f2-38b8-11eb-a355-5b3e6b88eb8b.html

[ansel12]

This isn’t a lie, and Admiral Shelton was a very good friend of mine.

This is an old story.

“There has been a years-long campaign to award Williams the Medal of Honor for his exploit. In 2014, retired Rear Admiral Doniphan Shelton became aware of Williams’s feat, and he tried unsuccessfully for years to get the Navy or Department of Defense to award him the medal.”

[Nifster]

Except it’s not

[Chainmail]

Well - you're an idiot aren't you? Here a genuine American hero is finally being honored for an exceptional feat of airmanship and bravery and you spout nonsense.

You have any idea at all what a MiG-15 is, or the Grumman F9F Panther? Any idea at all how those two types of plane stacked up in rates of turn, climb, max airspeed, comparative armament? Kind of emblematic of today's illiterate public, aren't you?

Bet ya money you've never flown a plane, much less a fighter, much less in combat - or likely left your little burg where you live.

Easy money.

[Paul R.]

Odd; the Russians tell much the same story...

2014 book by Russian historian Igor Seidov, 'Red Devils Over the Yalu: A Chronicle of Soviet Aerial Operations in the Korean War.'

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ If only it was true.

Our government lies.

This is convenient propaganda.”

Please travel to San Diego for the award ceremony and tell that to the pilot face to face.