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The most unusual MiG killer: the Skyraider air-to-air victories on North Vietnamese MiG-17s

January 14, 2015 Dario Leone

The Douglas Skyraider has been the last piston engine propelled aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter. The last propeller U.S. Navy attack aircraft to disappear from the decks of the flattops was the Douglas AD Skyraider. […]