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...positions, supply dumps and North Korean highways suddenly busy with increased traffic to and from Communist front lines. They ran into Russian-built MIGs for the first time since late July, but the Red pilots concentrated on the slower F-80s, damaging one, and ducked the whistling F-86s and Meteors. All along the front the fighting men had their eyes on Kaesong-and their fingers on their triggers...
...lumbering Super-forts, like their pilots, are almost all veterans of another war. One day last week, Anderson led four Japan-based B-29s toward the rail bridges at Kwaksan. Before they had a chance to release their bombs, 30 MIGs jumped the mission and its cover of F-86s...
...fighters in Korea-the U.S. F-86 Sabre and Russia's MIG-15 -were hotting up the aerial combat phase of the air war. Near Sinuiju, on the Yalu River, last week there were two dogfights in one day. In the first, six MIGs tangled with four F-86s. The Sabre pilots shot down one enemy plane and counted as a "probable" a MIG that rolled on to its back and vanished into a ground haze...
...second battle-biggest jet dogfight in air history-35 to 40 MIGs fought 15 F-86s. After visible hits had been registered on two of the enemy, all streaked to safety across the Manchurian border. The U.S. Air Force did not know whether the MIGs were flown by Russians or Chinese. In any case, the enemy pilots seemed to lack confidence in themselves or in their aircraft-perhaps both...
...first battle, over enemy-held territory ten miles south of the Korea-Manchuria border, a formation of four F-86s, led by Lieut. Colonel Bruce Hinton of Stockton, Calif., throttled down to their slowest cruising speed to disguise their true speed from the enemy. The trap worked: four MIGs came languidly up to investigate. Covered by his wingman, Colonel Hinton fired three bursts into a MIG and saw it go spinning down in flames. "I know I got that one all right. I must have killed the pilot," he said, "he made no attempt to get out-didn...