Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least as interesting as the captive MIG was the chubby North Korean pilot who flew it in to win General Mark Clark's $100,000 reward. Soon to be reunited with his mother, who fled North Korea months ago, and assured of asylum in the U.S., Senior Flight Lieut. Noh Keum Suk told air intelligence officers that the Communists had been busily bringing MIGs from Manchuria into North Korea ever since mid-August. Lieut. Noh said that he himself had seen at least 80 partially crated jets rolling south on flatcars. "We made the armistice only to improve...
...Russian-built MIG jet fighter that dropped onto Korea's Kimpo airport was all crated and on its way by air transport to Ohio's Wright-Patterson field last week when the U.S. Defense Department handed down its ruling: the MIG was not a legitimate prize of war because it had been surrendered by its pilot after the armistice. The crated aircraft was grounded en route -reportedly at Okinawa-and the U.N. command announced that it was canceling its offer of $50,000 reward for additional MIGs. Furthermore, it offered to return this one to its "rightful owner...
Both plane and pilot were promptly whipped under wraps for detailed examination. Though the U.N. had salvaged MIGs before, this was the first flyable one they had managed to get their hands on. Within 24 hours, Washington announced that the pilot will get his reward -$50,000 for the MIG, $50,000 for being the first to fly over to the U.N. side...
When General Mark Clark offered $100,000 last April for the first Russian MIG jet fighter to be delivered intact into allied hands, most people agreed that it was a good idea, but few expected that it would be acted on. U.N. pilots in Korea watched the skies for a few weeks, then dismissed the offer as a good...
...this week, as General Clark walked out of his Tokyo headquarters, Air Force General "Opie" Weyland raced up to him and asked breathlessly: "Got a hundred thousand bucks, Boss?" The general raised his eyebrows. General Weyland explained: a Russian-built, almost new MIG jet had just landed on South Korea's Kimpo airfield near Seoul. As U.N. airmen raced toward the red-starred, silver plane, the MIG pilot-a 25-year-old North Korean in a neat blue jumper suit -methodically tore up a picture of a girl friend, unstrapped his pistol holster, saluted smartly and surrendered...