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...Korea, Colonel John C. Meyer, 32, the country's top living air ace, was back in the U.S. for a rest and reassignment last week. He was credited with 37½* Nazi planes (four on one mission) in Europe during World War II, had added two Communist MIG-15s to his bag in Korea, and was just half a victory short of the alltime record put up by the late Major Richard Bong. His group, flying sleek, swept-wing F-86 jets, had destroyed or damaged 91 Russian jets, had lost only two of their...
Wing to Wing. The MIG and the F-86 are just about a dead heat, he says, with a slight edge to the F-86: the U.S. superiority these days he attributes mainly to the fact that its combat pilots are handpicked, while the Communists have little high-altitude combat experience. Matter-of-factly, Colonel Meyer told how it felt to fight in the swirling, 700-m.p.h. battles each day 45,000 feet above the Yalu...
...doubled." He was not satisfied with "the present 30% guns, 70% butter" defense program, but he favored full mobilization only if "war was inevitable"-and he did not think that was the case, although he was pessimistic. He threw a scare into the Senators by declaring that the Russian MIG-15 (powered, like the Navy's Panther and other fighter craft, with a redesigned Rolls-Royce Nene engine) is "superior to any jet engine that we have today" in "speed and climb and operations at altitude...
...MIG leader went over-that was the place where he couldn't see me-I turned toward the coast. It would take him about four minutes to go up and turn back. We'd be that much ahead of the game. West of Sinanju the gunners reported the MIGs again, 9 o'clock high, forming for attack. I pulled the formation together and instructed the pilots to make shallow turns into the Red fighters. That would get us near them faster, give them less shooting time...
Jabara, propeller ace (6½ enemy planes) in World War II, first jumped three MIGs at 35,000 feet. "I picked out the last man and bored straight in," he said. "I fired two bursts which ripped up the fuselage and left wing. The MIG burst into flame and snap-rolled twice. At about 10,000 feet the pilot bailed out. Just as he jumped, the MIG disintegrated." Then Jabara climbed back to 20,000 and got No. 6. (This week Ace Jabara was relieved of combat flying, sent to a Japanese air base as an instructor in jet-fighting...