Word: antung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...
Last week eight Sabres from a South Korean base were jumped by 15 or 16 MIGs over open water some 40 or 50 miles southwest of Antung. The Red pilots failed to hit any Sabre, but the Americans shot up two of the enemy jets so badly that the pilots bailed out, and two other MIGs were seen tumbling toward the sea, trailing smoke. Score: two kills, two probables...
...East Bomber Command sent out 63 B-29s to bomb the plant of the Oriental Light Metals Co. (prewar production: 40,000 metric tons of aluminum a year), situated four miles from the Yalu and eight miles from the Communist's big jet-fighter base at Antung. It was the biggest single-target night air strike of the Korean...
...fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...
...faster than the F-86. U.S. pilots have knocked the MIGs down with shooting-gallery precision, partly because U.S. pilots are better trained, have the advantage of a much better electronic gunsight. Even so, every once in a while, a special flight of red-nosed MIGs scrambles up from Antung across the Yalu. They are the first team. Then, say the Sabre pilots, there is "one grand hassle...