Tag: felix eugene moncla jr
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1953 kinross incident and the moncla memories
On the evening of November 23, 1953, Lt. Felix Eugene Moncla Jr., pilot, and radar operator, Lt. Robert Wilson were scrambled in a F-89C Scorpion from Kinross AFB while on temporary assignment on the upper Michigan peninsula in pursuit of an unidentified “bogey”. Radar operators tracked the F-89 and the unknown blip until they merged…