Word: mig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Calif., a $16,000 "Appreciation House" was put up in 45 hours by volunteer workers, equipped and furnished by volunteer merchants, and turned over to Jet Ace Captain Joseph C. McConnell, his wife and three children as a neighborly thank-you for his 106 Korean war missions and 16 MIG kills...
...allied warplanes roared off for North Korean targets, then were called back to their bases with full bombloads. More than 200 F-86 Sabre jets patrolled Mig Alley for the last time, found no MIG-158 willing to fight. The last plane shot down: a Russian-made IL-12 transport, which might have been carrying some of the Red officials who witnessed the signing at Panmunjom...
NORTH American Aviation's Sabre jets in Korea won the first jet air war in history by a whopping score. Final count: 798 MIG kills, only 58 Sabre jets shot down...
...says, "when the war ended, I had seen one Japanese aircraft- one they showed us back in flight-training days." In Korea, enemy aircraft seemed as far away as ever: Bordelon was assigned to a prop-driven F-4U Corsair- no match for a MIG-15-and set about the essential but dull task of attacking Communist supply lines...
Major James Jabara, the world's original jet ace, bagged his 15th Communist MIG over Korea to become the Air Force's second triple jet ace-one MIG behind Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. Jabara made one last search for the enemy three days later on the 100th mission of his second Korean tour (163 missions in all), then resigned himself to going home and "sitting out one of those jet desk jobs...