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To: SandRat
Soviet pilots manned many of the MiG-17 fighters that defended North Korea in 1950.

They were MiG-15, NATO code name Fagot, not MiG-17 Fresco. (Heh, I don't make up the names, NATO did, back in the non PC days of the late '40s in case of the Fagot).

MiG-15

Mig-17

20 posted on 10/26/2006 8:37:05 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato

Just remember that according to Websters a Fagot is a bundle of sticks to throw on the fire. It's the other spelling of the word with two g's that is non-PC.


27 posted on 10/26/2006 10:06:51 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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