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...nearly a month, U.N. pilots in Korea had been catching glimpses of a new Russian jet fighter. Last week First Lieut. James D. Carey of Las Vegas, Nev. "found myself on the tail of this funny-looking bird. Looked like a MIG-15, except the wings were high up on the fuselage. I gave him a few bursts and caught him in the right wing. Then other Reds started coming from all sides, and I had to get out. They seemed to be trying to protect...
...have brought forth a first-class jet fighter plane. Last week a few of the wraps were taken off the Mystère MD-452, a swept-wing job more or less in the same league as the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre jets and Russia's MIG-15s. The Mystère was developed by French engineers using $5,000,000 worth of U.S. machine tools, furnished by the Mutual Security Agency...
...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...