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Article: MiG Killers: A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- December 1, 2009
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MiG Killers: A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories, by Donald J. McCarthy Jr., Specialty Press, 2009
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IN A VIETNAM WAR REPLETE with vagaries and shades of gray, air-to-air combat over the North offered the participants--and any interested parties in the American public--something refreshingly clear-cut. When North Vietnamese fighters rose to intercept American bombers, the cut-and-dried rules of survival of the fittest became all that mattered. American aircrews claimed 202 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG- 17s, MiG- 19s and MiG-21s between 1965 and 1973, the majority by McDonnell F-4 Phantom IIs crewed by Air Force, Navy and in one case, Marine ...