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Old 11th March 2009, 03:07
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Re: Hawker Hunter aerial kills

Alan:

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Originally Posted by AlanReid View Post
Sorry, a late addition to this thread ...

This is a great account of the exploits of Pakistani pilot Flt Lt Saif-ul-Azam while flying with the Jordanians and Iraqis during the Six Day War ...

http://www.pakdef.info/pakmilitary/a...golanwar2.html

Responsible for a remarkable three IAF kills while flying Hunters ... Mystere, Vantour and Mirage III ... !
Certainly is quite likely that he scored those victories (all admitted by the IDF/AF), which would be of course quite an impressive achievement (even the Israelis admitt that these raids against the Iraqi airbase of H3 were a disaster). But take into account that is not certain if he scored all of them, because the RJAF credits those same victories to Ihsan Surdom (later CinC of the RJAF in the 1980s), and the Iraqis credit them to one of theirs (I don't recall his name now).
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