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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...
...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...