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Old 05-03-2008, 04:57 AM   # 8 Quick Link (permalink)
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Re: F-8E Crusader release!

A ‘Fighting Checkmates’ is a nice choice I just wish it was this one with the kill markings.

Edit: The F-8 profiles are for a "F-8E MiG Killer, VF-211, CDR Paul Speer; F-8E, VMF(AW)235, Vietnamlace, Sept. 1966"

CDR Paul Speer shot down a MiG-17 on 5-19-1967 flying BuNo 15034

By the time of CDR Paul Speer's kill on 5-19-1967 VF-211 had made 5 kills plus another kill on the same day as Speer's; which could acount for the 6 kill markings on the plane in question.
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