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Shrinking Sanctuaries. No MIGs showed up over Thai Nguyen, but as the first day's mission was returning to Thailand, Captain Max C. Brestel became locked in what he called "an old-fashioned dogfight" with four MIG-17s. Brestel damaged one MIG and shot down another. The confirmed kill brought to 37 the number of enemy jets downed by U.S. planes (against ten U.S. losses in air combat), and represented the first MIG nailed since January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Cost Goes Up Again | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...Brestel mastering 31 of the 87 ports required but stopped deciding what the "Madagals" of Keonjhargorh like for breakfast. "Tiny" Long racing around town trying to furnish and provision up that 21 room mansion, he, Max Kirschbaum, Russ parker, Art Marx, and a dozen others are planning to occupy next term...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/22/1944 | See Source »

...Statler, dancing in quite a romantic mood; Max Kirschbaum, who in one of his more violent jitterbug frenzies almost floored us and his date for keeps; Tommy Smith in an angle in the wall deep in intellectual fog with someone very charming to be that way with; Dan Brestel, also fighting toward the bar with little success; and Jason Widmer, who had his buffet supper with his date at Revere Beach...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

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