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Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:37 pm

1Lt Hap Saabye 25th FIS 51st FIW Suwon, S Korea 1951.

mlenoch · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:44 pm

Nice, Jack. Any pix of Lt. Brown? (1st jet v. jet kill pilot).
Thx,
VL

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:49 pm

Not off hand but there a was Lt Russell Brown who was a late war pilot
in the 354th FG and I've alway wondered if they were one and the same.

mlenoch · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:39 pm

November 8, 1950, an F-80 flown by 1st Lt. Russell Brown shot down a MiG-15 in history's first all-jet dogfight.

google quote...

VL

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:41 pm

2Lt Russell Brown of the 354th FG downed a FW-190 over Germany around Nov 1944.

mlenoch · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:32 am

And 6 years later, he still a Lt.?
VL

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:41 am

If Lt. Brown had gone into the Reserves after WWII and been called up for Korea wouldn't he pick up the rank he had when he went inactive? That may explain why he was a 1st Lieutenant (providing the two men are the same, of course).

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:37 am

That's very typical in a lot of cases. My good friend Ernie Wakehouse who
was one of the P-51 pilot honorees at Mustangs and Legends got his wings in 1944 and was a 1Lt when the war ended. He flew his combat tour in Korea in 1951 has a 1Lt and then continued to fly in the guard until 1955 and got out has a ...you guessed it 1Lt :shock:

Another pilot friend made Capt in 1943 in New Guinea and got his gold oak leaves in 1954 :!:

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:06 pm

vlado wrote:

And 6 years later, he still a Lt.?
VL

Part of the then new stimulus plan... :wink:

Lynn

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