This page has a link to the recording of the Skyraider pilots’ debriefing after they shot down the MiGs (one confirmed kill, one probable, and one damaged). I can’t find a detailed written account anywhere, although it’s mentioned in passing in everything that talks about the Skyraider.
Sounds like the MiGs attacked a pair of Skyraiders and got in a close-range turning dogfight, and two more Skyraiders snuck up and shot the MiGs while they were occupied with the first pair, although the guy that actually shot down the MiG (who presumably had the best view of events) is rather hard to understand.
It almost sounds like a good analogy would be an F-14 vs a flying antiaircraft gun emplacement. Not really a match for the jet aircraft, but you still don’t want to be in front of it when it lets loose with its cannons.
Let’s take an American F-16 pilot and plop him into the Western Front in September 1917, at the height of the career of Manfred von Richthofen, better known to English speakers as the “Red Baron”. The F-16 driver has a full tank of gas, a full complement of the most anachronistic possible weaponry, and a German flying circus on his back. What happens?
Let’s assume the bloody ace is flying his famous Fokker Dr.I triplane, with a service ceiling of less than 7,000 meters and a top speed of 165 km/hr. He’s got plenty of fuel, plenty of bullets for his twin fixed machine guns, and all his skilled compatriots by his side.
Remember, the triplane is a wood-and-canvas design with incidental amounts of metal. It has no hot exhaust and I don’t know how hot the piston engine gets. The Red Baron is no dummy, and his fellows are among the best the Fatherland has to offer. He’s flying over the blasted terrain of the Somme, and he can presumably lead the American into the German AA weaponry of the time.
My own take is that after losing the Germans numerous times by overshooting them and losing them in the ground clutter, the F-16 pilot gives up and decides to hunt down the trench Hitler is occupying.
