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...Texan named Royal N. Baker, who had flown British Spitfires against the Luftwaffe in 1942, was now, at 34, a colonel and commander of the Air Force's 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. Nearly 40,000 ft. up, Baker and his followers ran into a flight of eight MIG-15s. Two of the MIGs turned tail and headed for the Yalu. Taking out after one of them, Baker edged close, fired one short burst. The shots "just sprayed the air because I was caught in his jetwash." From 1,200 ft. away, Baker fired another burst...
...catch up, Baker pushed on his throttle, forced his Sabre jet through the sound barrier. From a distance of 800.ft., he fired a long burst of his guns. The MIG started coming apart. The cockpit canopy flew off to the left, and the pilot narrowly missed Baker's plane as his ejection seat dumped him to the right. The MIG, trailing flame, crashed ten miles south of the Yalu...
...quarreling among the pallbearers. While the new regime dug in, the rest of the world might get a breathing spell, But the death of Stalin itself did not change any fact of geography, economics or ambition; it did not destroy a single Soviet regiment nor ground a single MIG, nor stop a single...
...have received form the U.S. Air Force in Europe a report of the attack today by MIG-15s on an American military aircraft over the U.S. zone of Germany...
...order flashed from Washington to U.S. embassies halfway around the world: stop the Wiima. A grimy Finnish tanker loaded at the Rumanian oil port of Constantsa the Wiima was en route for Red China with 7,000 tons of aviation kerosene-enough fuel to give Communist MIG jets over 5,000 flying hours...