Meet in the photo Yuri Trushechkin, shot down the next Senator hawk, Senator John McCain.
On this day,October 6, 1967, when bombardirovke civilian areas of Hanoi, was shot down by American pilot John McCain. Battery commander, whose installation of s-75 was shot down John McCain, was a captain in the Soviet Army, Yuri Trushechkin.
Usually downed American pilots vietnamska peasants were killed with hoes, but McCain was spared from this fate after vmeshatelstva Vietnamese “competent authorities”.
After learning that the downed pilot was the son of the famous American Admiral and politician, vietnamci handed him over to the KGB. There, he realized after the interviews that any useful information from it can not be achieved due to the fact that it was not allowed (the father apparently about something guessed), the KGB turned him over to the Vietnamese. Their prisoner he remained until 1973, the year when and was traded.
Photo: John McCain caught from a pond in the centre of Hanoi where he “landed”
Photo: the McCain captured by the Vietnamese
