This award-winning author shot down a MiG-15 on the 4th of July 1952.
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James Salter. Born James A. Horowitz, Salter was a 1945 West Point graduate. He flew an F-86 in Korea with the 335th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, He later used the experience in his 1956 novel, The Hunters.
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