Skilled fighter pilots Paul Speer and Phil Wood, tackles the fierce North Vietnamese MiG over the killing skies of Vietnam. They fly the U.S. Navy's top fighter, the F8 Crusader. In one of the longest, gutwrenching dogfights on record, Lt. Commander Richard Schaffertout of missiles and with his guns jammedtakes on a lethal MiG17 and the best enemy pilot he's ever faced in this clip from Season 1, Episode 7, "THE LAST GUNFIGHTER."

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