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IrelandRoyce Williams recreates his outnumbered dogfight on Shawn Ryan Show
Model airplanes help the Navy veteran explain an encounter with Soviet fighters, in a Short that passed half a million views in nine hours.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 955,972 views a day, 5.3 times a normal first day on this channel (181,505).
The Longest Dogfight in U.S. Military History 🤯
Royce Williams holds up two model airplanes to explain how he fought his way through a group of Soviet MiGs. The small props make the positions clear; his account supplies everything that was at stake.
Shawn Ryan introduces the encounter as the longest dogfight in U.S. military history: 35 minutes over the Sea of Japan. Williams, flying a Panther jet, describes picking off the trailing aircraft before finding himself alone against six remaining fighters. "Now there were six MiGs, superior airplanes, versus me in the Panther," he says.
The Short combines the interview with computer-generated combat footage, not film of the actual encounter. An archival photograph shows the damage to Williams' aircraft as he explains losing hydraulics and rudder control after a hit to the wing. His account includes his own mistake: looking behind him and finding an enemy fighter already close enough to fire.
The clip's first nine hours brought more than half a million views, well ahead of the show's usual Shorts start. The comments were already several times busier than a typical full first day.
Williams' visit also anchors a full-length interview posted alongside the clips. Its description dates the encounter to November 1952 and says direct Soviet involvement kept it classified for decades. For viewers wanting the longer account, that episode follows the fight through running out of ammunition, returning in the damaged Panther and keeping the encounter secret.
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- Channel
- Shawn Ryan Show
- Subscribers
- 6,680,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 25,577,599
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,856,300 (on a normal day: 5,372,395)
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 526,540 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 955,972
The numbers
The dogfight Short drew an unusually fast audience, even as daily views across Shawn Ryan Show were below their usual level.
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Over which body of water did Williams' dogfight take place?
Ryan introduces the encounter as a dogfight against Soviet MiG-15s over the Sea of Japan.