Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle over Korea's MIG Alley one day last week, Major George A. Davis Jr., greatest of U.S. jet fighter aces, chopped down two Communist MIG-15s, his 13th and 14th kills in the Korean war. With a wingman, he swept past ten more MIGs looking for the day's third victim...
Against the enemy's swarming MIG-155, U.S. Sabre jet pilots more than held their own last week. They lost three Sabres to the Red jets' cannon, but downed twelve MIGs, damaged 14 more. The U.N.'s slower tactical planes had the usual good hunting against ground targets, but paid for it heavily. Three F-84s, four F-80s, four F-51s, a B-26 light bomber and a Corsair were lost to the enemy's sharpshooting flak crews. In number of U.N. planes lost-16 in all-it was the worst week...
...Chamber of Commerce announced its "ten outstanding young men of 1951." On the list: Helicopter Designer Stanley Miller Jr., 27; Gordon B. McLendon, 30, president of the mushrooming (443 stations) Liberty Broadcasting System; Air Force Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, 32, Korean air ace, who last week bagged his fourth MIG; Publisher John H. Johnson, 33, who nine years ago, on a $500 shoestring, started the nation's No. 1 string of Negro magazines (Ebony, Jet, etc.); Donald R. Wilson, 34, national commander of the American Legion...
Shipped to Korea in two aircraft carriers, another wing of Sabres has arrived to fight the enemy's MIG-158. But though this doubled the number of Sabres in combat-now 150-they are still heavily outnumbered by the Reds' 700 MIGs...
...enemy seems to be using "MIG Alley" (northwestern Korea) to train novices in regular cycles, removing each class when it gets fully seasoned. But each class is a little better than its predecessor...