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| rdfs:label | - 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident
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| rdfs:comment | - The 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident occurred on April 15, 1969 when a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by North Korean MiG-17 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed off the North Korean coast and all 31 Americans on board were killed.
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| Caption | - A United States Navy EC-121M Warning Star of VQ-1 .
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| Result | - North Korea victory, tensions heightened along the Korean DMZ
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| Place | - Sea of Japan, off the coast of North Korea
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| Conflict | - EC-121 shootdown incident
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| abstract | - The 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident occurred on April 15, 1969 when a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by North Korean MiG-17 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed off the North Korean coast and all 31 Americans on board were killed. The Nixon administration chose not to retaliate against North Korea apart from staging a naval demonstration in the Sea of Japan a few days later. Instead it resumed the reconnaissance flights within a week to demonstrate that it would not be intimidated by the action while at the same time avoiding a confrontation.
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