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Butowski with Miller, OKB MiG, 33, 219. The Israeli air force destroyed 363 planes and 8 helicopters on the ground. Sources differ on the total number of Israeli air-to-air losses in 1967. It may have been around 10—this would reduce the kill rate to 7.2 to 1. Even with this, both the 'reduced' kill rate and the speed of the war are a stunning contrast to Vietnam.

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Butowski with Miller, OKB MiG, 96, 97.

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Terence Smith, '2 Syrian MiG 17's Flown to Israel,' New York Times, August 13, 1968, 1.

651

Hans-Heiri Stapfer, MiG 17 Fresco in Action (Carrollton, Tex.: Squadron/Signal, 1992), 26–28.

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Industry Observer, Aviation Week and Space Technology (February 17, 1969), 13. This item highlights the problems in reconstructing the history of the U.S. MiG effort. It says the MiG 21 (singular) was brought to the United States in the spring of 1968. Scream of Eagles says it was in 1967. It is also possible this is a reference to delivery of 007, and the dates were confused.

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Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, 134-36.

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Ibid., 136-38; and Lou Drendel, And Kill MiGs (Warren, Mich.: Squadron/Signal, 1974), 41.

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Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, 139, 140.

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Ibid., 137, 154, 187.

657

Ibid., 186-88, 197.

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Research File 'Groom Lake (Nevada), Area 51 and Project Red Light' (W. L. Moore Publications, Compiled 1987).

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Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, 187.

660

Ibid., 180, 181.

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Maj. Gen. Marion E. Carl, USMC (Ret), with Barrett Tillman, Pushing the Envelope (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994), 112.

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