Re: Vought F4U Corsair - top ten ace list
The 4 Sep 1950 victory was not over a IL-4 it was over an LL Douglas A-20G of the 36th MTAP pilot Sr Lt K Karpol and crew all KIA. Sometime later the Americans presented official apologies and handed over the remains of the crew to the Soviet Union.
from Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War Vladimir Kotelnikov p 292
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