U. S. Plane shot down by Russia (1955)

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Alaska Native Scouts feted 67 years after rescuing Navy crew


GAMBELL, Alaska (AP) - Bruce Boolowon, then a lean 20-year-old, and a group of friends were hunting for murre eggs in a walrus skin boat on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait when they saw a crippled airplane flying low.

"Something was wrong," Boolowon, now 87, recalled of that day in 1955. "They came in and one engine was smoking."

Long before drones or weather balloons became military targets, a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune maritime patrol aircraft had been attacked at about 8,000 feet (2,438 meters) by two Soviet MiG-15 fighters roaring out of nearby Siberia. The plane's right engine was destroyed and the pilot was making a controlled crash landing.
 
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