Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet above the burning North Korean border city of Sinuiju last week, fighter planes in history's first jet dogfight streaked across the morning sky. Eight or more Russian-made MIG-15s tangled for a deadly moment with four U.S. Lockheed F-80s. The score: one Communist jet shot down, another damaged; U.S. fighters, untouched...
...Chinese. Throughout Korea U.N. troops had abandoned the easy optimism of previous weeks. U.N. pilots who had long had the air almost to themselves were meeting increasing numbers of Yak fighters. Last week they had their first brushes with enemy jets coming from north of the Yalu-Soviet MIG-15s with swept-back wings and a speed of 600 miles an hour. Ground troops faced enemy units heavily equipped with tanks, automatic weapons, 76-mm. howitzers and multiple rocket launchers like the Russian "Katushas" of World War II. The men who handled the weapons displayed skill and high morale. Said...
...waged its war in the air against negligible Red opposition- a few propeller-driven Yak 3s, 7s, 9s and 15s, some Ilyushin 10s. This week, the Air Force heard what might prove to be serious news. A number of new-type Russian-made jet fighters, said a MacArthur communique, had been sighted in action over Chongju. The Reds' new plane was described as "smaller than the American F-80, with swept-back wings, a stubby fuselage and blunt nose...