A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
The pilots of the 1st Black Hawk shot down, Cliff Wolcott and his copilot, were wedged in the wrecked cockpit pretty tightly & the crash had kicked up a lot of dirt, partially burying both of them. The guys doing the extraction had to cut the entire front end of the chopper apart around both bodies to get them out.
The top jet ace in U.S. Air Force history is Joseph C. McConnell, a âtriple aceâ who shot down sixteen MiG fighters during the Korean War. He did this over a four-month period in 1953âincluding downing three MiGs on his last mission before returning to the United States.