Col-Tomb toon

[mars]

This myth could be originated from a picture showed a Mig painted with more than a dozen red stars, some Americans guessed that belonged to a super aces in the North Vietnam air force, not knowing that usually more than one North Vietnam pilots would fly same Mig and if any of them scored a victory on that Mig, he would paint a red star on the same Mig. Then from radio interception, one of the North Vietnamese call sigh sounded like "Toon" to Americans, so one plus one, there was a super North Vietnam ace name col Toon! According to Vietnamese record, there was no Col Toon in their air force, and the score of their top ace in the Vietnam war were 9 kills

[ahafan]

Originally Posted by mars

This myth could be originated from a picture showed a Mig painted with more than a dozen red stars, some Americans guessed that belonged to a super aces in the North Vietnam air force, not knowing that usually more than one North Vietnam pilots would fly same Mig and if any of them scored a victory on that Mig, he would paint a red star on the same Mig. Then from radio interception, one of the North Vietnamese call sigh sounded like "Toon" to Americans, so one plus one, there was a super North Vietnam ace name col Toon! According to Vietnamese record, there was no Col Toon in their air force, and the score of their top ace in the Vietnam war were 9 kills

Thanks -who was killed by Randy cunningham on 10/5/72
any names.i found none so I guess it was him..but who?
sharon

[Daniel Nole]

Nguyen Van Coc from the 921th FR had 9 kills (7) 2 F-4Ds, 1 F-4B, 2 F-105F, 1 F-105D and 1 F-102A. But that was with MiG-21PF.

There are some three MiG-17 aces, but as write before, "Colonel Toon" is a fiction. This day Cunningham and Driscoll had encountered another skilled and anonymus MiG-17 pilot.
A version say this pilot was most likely a flight leader or squadron commander of the 923th Regiment.

[DavidIsby]

As Vietnamese sources have not identified this pilot (where they have identified many other fighter pilots) it has been suggested that he was non-Vietnamese and that the Toon/Tomb callsign was associated with foreigners.

While it has been suggested that this dogfight never took place (which is why the Vietnamese have never written about it), but Driscoll's reputation for veracity remains high. With Cunningham getting out of federal prison, he may have more time to go over the events of 10 May 1972.