A secret US operation spent months trying to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 during the Korean War. A North Korean defector who never heard of the operation handed them one and was paid $100,000 for it.
On this day in aviation history, 75 years ago (November 8, 1950), the United States' first aerial victory over a Soviet MiG-15 occurred. First Lieutenant Russell J. Brown is credited with the victory, ...