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To: SAMWolf

the skillful Brits again survived and Lieutenant Peter Carmichael scored the first confirmed aerial victory of a piston-engined aircraft over a jet.


Didn't Chuck Yeager shot a Me-262 down in WWII?


42 posted on 04/18/2005 9:18:10 AM PDT by Valin (Senate switchboard: (202) 225-3121 / 1-866-808-0065 toll-free)
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YEP

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

43 posted on 04/18/2005 9:41:54 AM PDT by alfa6
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Didn't Chuck Yeager shot a Me-262 down in WWII?

Yep.

"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."....

General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.


53 posted on 04/18/2005 1:14:11 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)
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