Word: 29s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day was a different story. Above another Russian jet field being built at Namsi, nine B-29s found some 150 MIGs ready and waiting. Of the 100 or so escorting U.N. fighters, only the F-86 Sabre jets could stand up to the MIGs, and they were outnumbered nearly five to one. In the biggest jet battle yet, eight MIGs were destroyed, with two probables and ten damaged, but some of the interceptors got through to the bombers...
Three of the million-dollar B-29s were shot down over the target, a loss percentage of 33%; nearly all suffered battle damage from slight to very heavy, and more than one of those which got back carried dead and wounded...
...next problem was to get the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron to drop the pole from one of its B-29s on the drifting ice covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which were filled with long-range gas tanks. But word got around. A Fairbanks radio commentator known as "North Pole Nelly" suggested that Santa Claus letters from Alaskan kids could be tossed out with the pole. Air Force wives were enthusiastic. Even General Smith's wife pleaded for Stan...
...Reds have about 1,000 heavy bombers, mostly direct copies of a number of U.S. B-29s that made forced landings in Siberia in World War II. The B-29s yielded the Russians their design plus the Norden bombsight.* The U.S.S.R. called its well-made copy the TU-4. Unless and until the Russians pour out their new heavier bomber, they are behind the B-36, and even farther behind the new eight-jet B-52 bomber, which, when it gets into production, will be able to hit Russia from 50,000 feet at 600 m.p.h. in any weather...
...Russians have already started to bridge this gap, while (presumably) waiting for accurate rockets. In Korea, one armament man pointed out, 40 heavily escorted U.S. B-29s were suddenly jumped by 80 Russian MIG-15 fighters. The MIGs knifed through the formations, shot down six of the bombers in the space of a few minutes. The MIG-15's armament: two 23-mm., one 37-mm. cannon...