My Brief War With Russia; Dief and I Helped Keep the Soviets Out of Korea-but We Paid From: The Washington Post | Date: March 4, 1990| Author: Alton H. Quanbeck | Copyright 1990 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

WE WERE skimming the tops of clouds at 37,000 feet when I decided to start our letdown into the target, 10 minutes earlier than planned. We armed our .50-caliber machine guns in preparation for action.

It was Oct. 8, 1950, early in the Korean War, and two of us-myself and my wingman, Al Diefendorf-were on a mission over North Korea. Only later did we learn that we had strayed and were, in fact, a few miles inside the Soviet Union.

At 10,000 feet I spotted a small hole through ...

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