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Re: US Navy Collision July 29, 1930 San Diego,
The collision, 2 miles SW of Camp Kearny, took place during a mock attack by fighters on scouts. Soucek, one of the fighter pilots, dove on the scouts but lost sight of them as he closed and so pulled out of his dive. In the course of the pull-out his left wings struck the upper right wing of the other aircraft and were torn off, forcing him to bail out.
Soucek was flying F3B-1, A-7757, of VF-3B. His nemesis was a tough Vought O2U-2 of VS-2B, which survived the collision and flew back to base. Duborg's crewman was RM3c F.W. Lamb.
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George Kernahan
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