USAF T-39 Sabreliner Shot Down Over East Germany, January 28, 1964
An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
Date: January 28, 1964
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