FPP 175 - MiG Killer Reconciles with Former Enemy

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

History, Personal Journals, Technology, Society & Culture, Government, Leisure, Aviation

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Robert Dosé was a World War 2 fighter pilot who downed an Imperial Japanese aircraft. Thirty years later, his son Curtis downed a Vietnamese MiG-21, making them the only father-son duo to each achieve aerial victories in combat.

"Dozo," as Curt is known, joins us this week to describe the May 10, 1972 engagement and reconciliation with his former enemy 40+ years later. A TOPGUN graduate and test pilot, Dozo also performed much of the aircraft carrier suitability testing on the F-14 Tomcat.

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0:35.2	trees. I've lined up on the meg got a solid tone. Squeeze the trigger. The side winder comes back
0:40.8	in and right at the last minute. It kind of turns left, goes right up the tail peg. Big boom.
0:46.0	Two pieces of Meg 21 come out of the front and slam right into the ground.
0:58.1	Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I am your host Vincent Iolo Carl Sangello,
1:14.8	and joining me today in the Circle Air Group Studios here at Gillespie Field in San Diego, California
1:19.3	is Mr. Kurt Dosey. Dosey, as he's known, is credited with an air-to-air victory over a MiG 21
1:25.2	in Vietnam. He's part of the only father-son duo to each be credited with air-to-air victories.
1:29.8	He was a Top Gun graduate, an early test pilot of the F-14 Tomcat, and so much more as we'll uncover
1:35.6	here, I hope, in the next hour or so. Dosey, welcome to the show. Thank you. Glad to be here.
1:40.2	So glad to have you, and I really look forward to unpacking all this, like I said, because
1:44.0	you've got some pretty amazing experiences. It's been quite a career in a historic time,
1:50.0	so I think I think I got lucky. Okay, well, I hear that a lot on this show, so I'm all
1:55.1	that you have one of those, but not too many. Well, let's start with who is Robert Dosey?
2:00.0	Robert Dosey was my father. This is a very distinguished dad. He won World War II,
2:06.3	I won Vietnam, it's the way my grandkids put it, but he started off in biplane torpedo airplanes
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