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© Mark Waki
1400 Hours, 10 May 1972, 40 miles north of Nam Dinh, North Vietnam. In one of aerial warfare's greatest dogfights, LT Randy "Duke" Cunningham and his RIO LT(JG) Willie Driscoll are seconds away from becoming America's first aces of the Vietnam War. This kill, their third of the day, ended the career of 13 victory ace Colonel Toon.
LT Cunningham's F-4J "Showtime 100" is doing 250 knots, and is 40 to 50 degrees angle off and 1500 feet from Col. Toon's MiG-17F Fresco-C.