What are some weird interesting facts about the Vietnam war?
26 December 1972-North Vietnamese MIG-21 pilot Major Pham Tuan reported shooting down a B-52 Stratofortress Bomber over North Vietnam, using air to air missiles. The shoot down is the only known loss of a B-52 to a MIG Jet Fighter. The US Air Force states that the downed B-52 was lost to a SAM (surface to air missile). On 23 July 1980, Lt. General Tuan became Vietnam’s First Cosmonaut, when he and Soviet Cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko were launched into outer space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
