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Lieut. Colonel William E. Bertram of Chicago was heating water on a gasoline burner-for a bath in the half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F-84 Thunderjets: "We were hitting a bridge halfway between Sinuiju and Sinanju. I saw a MIG on the tail of one of our guys and went to help and then four more MIGs went through me. I went up into the sun and skidded around and caught some more tracers...
...fastest jet fighters in Korea-the U.S. F-86 Sabre and Russia's MIG-15 -were hotting up the aerial combat phase of the air war. Near Sinuiju, on the Yalu River, last week there were two dogfights in one day. In the first, six MIGs tangled with four F-86s. The Sabre pilots shot down one enemy plane and counted as a "probable" a MIG that rolled on to its back and vanished into a ground haze...
...combat, and the pilots shot down seven enemy planes. The American jets were North American F-86 Sabres, which had been clocked at 670.981 m.p.h. at Muroc Dry Lake, the Air Force's proving ground in California, and were reputed to be even faster. Russia's vaunted MIG-15, which had "walked away" from F80 Shooting Stars in Korea, is certainly almost as fast as the Sabre (and may be equally fast), but the F-86s were touted as sturdier, more maneuverable and harder-hitting. The F-86s in Korea belonged to the 4th Fighter Group, commanded...
...first battle, over enemy-held territory ten miles south of the Korea-Manchuria border, a formation of four F-86s, led by Lieut. Colonel Bruce Hinton of Stockton, Calif., throttled down to their slowest cruising speed to disguise their true speed from the enemy. The trap worked: four MIGs came languidly up to investigate. Covered by his wingman, Colonel Hinton fired three bursts into a MIG and saw it go spinning down in flames. "I know I got that one all right. I must have killed the pilot," he said, "he made no attempt to get out-didn...
Four days later, another Sabre formation tangled with several small groups of MIGs and shot six of them down, with no U.S. losses. The dogfight swirled from the 30,000-ft. level to treetop heights. One of the enemy jets disintegrated in the air and the five others crashed. A seventh was damaged before the surviving MIGs broke off the engagement and scurried back to the privileged sanctuary of Manchuria. This victorious U.S. formation was commanded by Colonel Meyer himself, who shot down one MIG...