Air battle over Merklín

Air battle over Merklín
	Part of Cold War
	; USAF Republic F-84E and Czechoslovak MiG-15UTI
Date	10 March 1953
Location	Merklín, Czechoslovakia, Bohemian Forest
Result	Czechoslovak victory American F-84 fighter-bomber shot down
Belligerents
Czechoslovakia	United States
Commanders and leaders
Jaroslav Šrámek	Lt. Warren G. Brown
Strength
2 MiG-15	2 F-84 Thunderjet
Casualties and losses
none	1 F-84 shot down; Pilot survived

The Air battle over Merklín was an air-to-air engagement between Czechoslovak and USAFE air units over the Czech village of Merklín, in the Bohemian Forest, on 10 March 1953. During the action Czech pilot Jaroslav Šrámek, flying a MiG-15 (from 5th Fighter Regiment, 2nd Squadron, Plzeň-Líně air base), shot down one of a pair of American F-84E Thunderjets (from 53rd Fighter Bomber Squadron, 36th Fighter-Bomber Wing). The American pilot, Lt. Warren G.Brown ejected from the aircraft, which crash-landed in German territory, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the border, and survived.

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