On this day 60 years ago, a S-75 surface-to-air missile was fired by China’s 2nd surface-to-air missile battalion in Beijing and it shot down a Martin RB-57D Canberra high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, #5643, over Tong County Zhangjiawan. It was the first time that a surface-to-air missile had brought down an aircraft.
AMB Brescia [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The pilot of the RB-57D, Lt. Wang Ying Ch’in from the Republic of China Air Force was killed.
Here is the tale of many pilots and crew shit down, killed, wounded, pow, mia. The Cold War had many hidden casualties! RiP brave warriors! Your watch avoidef WWIII and atomic war for over 74 odd years!