主题：【原创】首领号救起的国民党军飞行员之谜 -- 萨苏

在网络上查找资料，无意中发现的一段文字，引起了我的兴趣 – 1959年6月，一艘美国军舰首领号在台湾海峡北部海域救起了一名国民党空军飞行员，他是与解放军空军激战后跳伞逃生的。然而，当我想继续寻找这名飞行员的名字和那场空战的痕迹，却发现在台海两岸的记录中，似乎都是空白。

怎么办呢？

干脆把这段资料放上来，请两岸有兴趣的朋友帮忙侦破这起无头空战之案吧，如果能够最后侦破出是谁和谁，在哪里进行的这场空战，结果如何，那，我们也做了一把历史的福尔摩斯。

恭请各位网友帮忙，老萨预先谢过了。

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美国海军首领号扫雷舰

这段记载，出现在美国海军首领号扫雷舰（MSO 490 USS Leader）的纪念网页上，地址如下：

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其中，关于营救国民党军飞行员的部分，是这样的：

“In late June, while steaming in moderately calm seas, in the Straights of Formosa, outward bound from Keelung, on the North end of Formosa (Taiwan), one of the lookouts spotted a large plume of water about two miles off the Starboard beam. Wondering what could have caused such a large "splash" in the middle of the Straights, the bridge crew concentrated its attention in that direction. Continuing to scan the area around the splash, one of the lookouts spotted a parachute about 500 feet above the water.

Captain Vasse immediately sounded "Man Overboard" and told LEADER to come right to a course where the parachute would enter the water. The Commodore ordered the rest of MinDiv 93 to proceed on the previous course toward Kaoshiung. We saw the parachute enter the water about one mile ahead of us. When we were about 500 yards from the man in the water, Captain Vasse ordered BM1 DeWitt to launch the Motor Whale Boat and recover the man floating in the life raft. BM2 Weiss assumed coxswain of the MWB with EN3 Carl Haynes as Engineer, and proceeded to pick up the man who had, literally, fallen from the skies. The biggest difficulty in the recovery was the parachute which did not want to get into the Motor Whale Boat. The man said that he had to recover the parachute or he would not be allowed to fly any more.

When the man was brought to the bridge he informed us, in rather well spoken English, that he was a Nationalist Chinese pilot that had been on a flight over Communist China and had been attacked by the mainland Chinese Air Force and his Sabre Jet had been damaged in a dogfight. He had limped as far home as he could get and then, fire in the cockpit had forced him to bail out before he could reach the coast of Formosa. In the tradition of pilots rescued at sea, he presented his sidearm (an S&W 38 Special) to BM2 Weiss and the life raft to BM1 DeWitt. He said that he had to keep his flight suit to show the flame singed leg to his superiors as proof that the plane had been on fire. Some of the Nationalist Chinese military had damaged equipment out of loyalty to the Communist Chinese and he needed to prove that the bail out was necessary.“

萨翻译如下：

“在（一九五九年）六月下旬的一天，我们正行驶在台湾海峡北端基隆的外海，周围风平浪静。忽然，一名瞭望哨发现右舷两英里以外的地方腾起一根巨大的水柱。奇怪在海峡中是什么造成这样一朵大“花”，舰桥上的人都把注意力集中到这个方面。继续朝这个发现水柱的方向观察的结果，是一名瞭望哨发现在水面上五百英尺的地方有一顶降落伞。

瓦赛舰长喊道：“有人落水”，并且下令首领号向右转开向降落伞落水的方向。编队指挥官也下令93分舰队的其他舰只保持航向，继续开往高雄。我们看到那顶降落伞就在我们前方一英里半的地方落入水中。在我们离落水者只有500码的时候，瓦赛舰长下令大副德怀特放下交通艇并把在救生筏上的遇难者救上来。二副维斯担任舵手，三副轮机长卡尔海因斯担任机械师，总算成功地把那个人。。。确切地说，从天而降的那个人救了上来。营救中最大的问题是那顶降落伞，它似乎很难被放进交通艇中。但是获救者说如果不能把降落伞捞上来，他就不会被允许继续飞行。

当这个人被带到舰桥的时候，他用非常纯正的英语告诉我们，他是一个国民党方面的飞行员，飞入大陆执行任务，结果遭到解放军空军的拦截。他的佩刀式喷气式战斗机在缠斗中受伤。他努力驾驶飞机尽其可能向自己一方飞去，但在他到达台湾海岸前，驾驶舱也着火了，他被迫跳伞。按照惯例，被救的飞行员向二副维斯留下了他的自卫武器（S&W.38手枪）和救生筏。他说他必须保留自己的飞行服，以便向上级展示腿部烧坏的地方，来证明飞机确实起火了。有些国民党军人会因为实际忠于共产党而有意破坏装备。他必须证明自己的跳伞是必须的。“

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国民党空军F-86式喷气式战斗机，当时是其空军主力机型

好了，我能提供的资料就是这样多。鉴于此后首领号参加了为期一周的演习，并在7月3日结束，萨推测这次坠机事件应该发生在6月25日左右。

那么，这架国民党空军F-86佩刀式战斗机，是被谁击落的？当时战况如何？这位国民党飞行员姓甚名谁？就要依靠各位朋友帮忙了。如能查清真相，也是一件乐事。

拜托了。

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