Talk:Nguyen Toon

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The History Channel recently featured an episode of "Dogfight" featuring Duke Cunningham explaining in detail how he shot this guy down. Ordinarily, I would suggest this needs more research (myth vs. reality), but the Duke-Stir seems to have become a less than credible source. Hiberniantears 16:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Based on what I saw, the narrator on the program was Cunningham's RIO, Willy Driscoll. "Duke" did not appear in the segment I saw, though he certainly told the Col. Tomb story many times previously. (A friend of mine is a retired USAF master sergeant. He always said, "I'm the only Tomb I know, and I'm Irish!")

[edit] added some links

Greetings, I added an external link article on North Vietnamese Ace pilots that also include info on “Colonel Toon”. I also added him to “Mysterious People” and “Nonexistent people” category. Even though, he’s just a fabrication to describe any good North Vietnamese pilot by US pilots, he was however for a time thought to be a real mysterious pilot. --James 20:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe he's one or more of the aces from the Nguyen family?

Eight of the sixteen North Vietnamese flying aces of the Vietnam War had the family name Nguyen. One or more of these could have been the mythical Colonel Toon. Respectfully, SamBlob 20:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)