April
8, 1950
US
Plane Shot Down by Soviet Union
In the first shoot down of an American military aircraft
by the Soviet
Union during the Cold War, two Soviet Lavochkin
La-11 fighters intercepted and downed a U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer
surveillance plane that was flying over or near the Latvian SSR
with ten men on board, the first of over 350 American servicemen lost in Cold
War mission.
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