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Definition of Shootdowns
1. shootdown [n] - See also: shootdown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shootdowns
Literary usage of Shootdowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Usurpers of Freedom in Conspiracy by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"FOCUS ON JRAO “FRIENDLY FIRE shootdowns Does anyone remember the two helicopters
which YOU shot down and then whined, moaned and called “friendly fire”? ..."
2. Accounting for Pow/Mias from the Korean War and the Vietnam War: Hearing edited by Robert K. Dornan (1998)
"Many of these flights involved shootdowns, and the crews, in most cases, ...
Only US News & World Report has carefully logged the shootdowns and ..."
3. Apollo's Warriors: United States Air Force Special Operations During the by Michael E. Haas (1998)
"In the years and hundreds of shootdowns over Laos that followed, only one other
pilot managed to escape from Communist captivity in Laos ..."
4. Operation Provide Comfort: Review of U. S. Air Force Investigation of Black by Barbara W. Alsip, Neyla Arnas, Fred Chasnov, Richard E. Chervenak (1998)
"... attributed this atmosphere to the F-16 community's having executed the only
fighter shootdown in Operation Provide Comfort and all shootdowns in Bosnia. ..."
5. The Cold War in Asia by Cold War International History Project (1996)
"Just as routinely, the Soviets denied finding or capturing any survivors of these
shootdowns. They were secret casualties in a secret war. ..."
6. Tailhook 91: Events At The 35th Annual Tailhook SymposiumLaw (1993)
"... briefings that afternoon involved LT Nick Mongello of VFA-81 and Marine CAPT
Chuck McGill, who described their MiG shootdowns during Desert Storm. ..."
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