Word: dogfighter
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...Thunderjets undertook to drive the attackers off (while the Sabres stayed close to the bombers) and did it quickly. After two MIGs had been hit, the rest streaked for safety across the Yalu; the U.S. pilots broke off the pursuit at the river. In this biggest dogfight of the war, no U.S. plane was scratched...
...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...
Four days later, another Sabre formation tangled with several small groups of MIGs and shot six of them down, with no U.S. losses. The dogfight swirled from the 30,000-ft. level to treetop heights. One of the enemy jets disintegrated in the air and the five others crashed. A seventh was damaged before the surviving MIGs broke off the engagement and scurried back to the privileged sanctuary of Manchuria. This victorious U.S. formation was commanded by Colonel Meyer himself, who shot down...
...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...
...Greece's long-deferred hopes were still far from fulfillment. The Greeks were flushed with victory, and impatient for its fruits; last week, all they got was. a political dogfight...