Word: mishin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Gennady Mishin, Soviet Air Force Serial No. 25054, is the only definitely identified Russian casualty of the Korean war. On Sept. 4, 1950 (eleven days before MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon), Mishin's twin-engine bomber was shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire...
...Lieut. Mishin's remains were first interred in the enemy section of the U.N. cemetery at Pusan. Recently they were transferred to a special area labeled "nonbelligerent," only a few yards from the thicket of crosses that mark the graves of U.S. and other U.N. fighting men. Mishin's grave is the only one in the "nonbelligerent" section...
...toward the center of the United Nations formation in a hostile manner. The bomber opened fire upon a United Nations fighter patrol, which returned its fire and shot it down." A U.N. destroyer fished the airman from the sea. His identification papers showed that he was Lieut. Gennady Vasilievich Mishin, serial number 25054. He was buried at Pusan...
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