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ZUM4875874 Tue 03, 1953 - American jet-fighter shot down in Bavaria: An American jet-fighter F-84 being on a routine flight in Southern Germany was attacked and shot down by two Czech jet-fighters of Russian origin of the type NIG-15 about 25 kilometers before the Czech border, on Tuesday forenoon about 11 hours Middle-European time. The pilot could save himself by means of his parachuts. Our picture shows American air-police at the burnt-out wreckage of the F-84 which crashed near Falkenstein in the district of Roding. by .; (add.info.: Tue 03, 1953 - American jet-fighter shot down in Bavaria: An American jet-fighter F-84 being on a routine flight in Southern Germany was attacked and shot down by two Czech jet-fighters of Russian origin of the type NIG-15 about 25 kilometers before the Czech border, on Tuesday forenoon about 11 hours Middle-European time. The pilot could save himself by means of his parachuts. Our picture shows American air-police at the burnt-out wreckage of the F-84 which crashed near Falkenstein in the district of Roding.); Photo ?? Keystone/Zuma; .