Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heels of this Communist setback last week came another face-loser for the Reds. Two of eight MIG planes that at tacked a U.S. patrol plane and its escort over the Yellow Sea were splashed by U.S. Sabres, and the rest were routed...
...repeatedly shelled from Communist-held Toumen, six miles away. At mid-morning on the day of the assault, the Reds began shelling the tiny island from two destroyers, four gunboats and a swarm of patrol boats. At noon 60 Red planes-Russian-built light bombers and fighter-bombers, with MIG jets for top cover-began plastering the Nationalists with 500-lb. bombs. Under this rain of fire, the garrison clung to its burrows; while they were holed up, the invaders came ashore from a swarm of armored, motorized junks...
...Student of the week: former North Korean Communist No Kum-Sok, 22, who won a reward of $100,000 for piloting a MIG-15 from behind the Iron Curtain showed how he intended to use the money by enrolling as a freshman at the University of Delaware...
Once,McConnell was downed by MIGs; he bailed out safely at 40,000 feet into the Yellow Sea and was rescued. After he was back in the U.S., he appeared on a TV show with a Polish refugee who had been a MIG pilot in Eastern Europe. When the show was over, McConnell pumped him for five hours about flying MIGs. Then McConnell wrote a 15-page letter to the men who were still fighting MIGs in Korea. After that the MIG kill rate went up. "If I had cleared through the Pentagon in the beginning with that report," McConnell...
...plane has the range and bombload (including the Abomb) to match most World War II medium bombers. The engine is a Wright J-65 turbojet (7,200 Ibs. of thrust), and though its speed is a tightly guarded secret, experts say it can outrace Russia's latest-model MIG interceptors, make its way home without escort...