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...blows would rain on North Korea "if they [the Communists] insist on prolonging the war." Admiral William Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations who was also in the Pacific, spoke up for the Navy. Fechteler said that two new carrier jets, able to cope with the enemy's MIG-15, are in production, and that soon all the Navy's big carriers would fly only jets...
...royal air force lumbered above the Baltic early one morning this week in search of a sister plane that had been missing for four days. Cruising east, some 60 miles off the coast of Estonia and no miles from the Swedish coast, the defenseless Catalina was ambushed.* Two Russian MIG-15 jets bansheed down and made seven passes at the Catalina, one of them blasting away with its 20-mm. cannon. Hit several times, the Swedish plane got off a message to its home base: it had been crippled but would try for home...
...event of war, travel will be difficult. The communist underground will probably dynamite the key bridges, so that rail transportation can almost be discounted. Escape by air is the best idea, if one has the nerve to risk running into a MIG. Oceanic travel will of course be enhanced by the Russian submarine fleet. The best idea there is a small, inconspicuous boat...
...East the Russians have equipped the Chinese Communist air force with 1,500 airplanes (including 900 jet-powered MIG-iss), to create for China, in a matter of months, the world's fourth largest air force (after the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain). Together, the Russians and the Chinese now have in Asia enough planes and ready-built bases (from Manchuria to Indo-China) to seize control of the air throughout the Far East, including the air over Japan...
...real facts finally began to filter through. Talk of piston superiority stopped abruptly when an F80 shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood...