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...More planes, including 1,500 MIG 15s, 1,500 Yak fighters, 600 four-engine Tupolev bombers, 1,000 cargo planes...
...enemy seemed plainly to be hurt. For the first time in months, he sent his MIG-15s across the Yalu in large numbers to challenge the U.N.'s strengthened and revitalized air forces. But the Red jets accomplished nothing. In six consecutive days of aerial fighting, U.S. Sabres shot down 19 MIGs, and Sea Furies from a British carrier destroyed a 20th. During this period, the U.N. lost eight planes (four to Communist ground fire, four from other causes, but none in air combat with the MIGs...
...m.p.h. slower than the stripped-down MIG-15, the new "Type 15" probably has a longer range, thus might be useful if the Communists decide to try something they haven't dared before: low-level attacks on the U.N.'s fighter-plane bases in South Korea. MIG-15s presumably could not go that far and back from their Manchurian sanctuary...
...brought forth a first-class jet fighter plane. Last week a few of the wraps were taken off the Mystère MD-452, a swept-wing job more or less in the same league as the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre jets and Russia's MIG-15s. The Mystère was developed by French engineers using $5,000,000 worth of U.S. machine tools, furnished by the Mutual Security Agency...
...battle over Korea's MIG Alley one day last week, Major George A. Davis Jr., greatest of U.S. jet fighter aces, chopped down two Communist MIG-15s, his 13th and 14th kills in the Korean war. With a wingman, he swept past ten more MIGs looking for the day's third victim...