Word: mustang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Lou Sebille spent some time as a commercial airline pilot, finally decided to return to the Air Force as a career officer. He was again made a major and sent to a base in southern Japan. There, Lou Sebille rose to command of a Mustang squadron, used to like to lounge around his squadron's Quonset hut and talk about fighting and dying. "If you have to die," he used to say, "then take some of the enemy with...
...last week were war-trained pilots who had been grounded by the Truman Administration's economy decision last year (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). These men were sent to Korea to act as ground crews, but when Korean pilots turned out to be short on training to fly the FSI Mustang, Tokyo gave many of the grounded Americans their wings back. When the order was read last week, the pilots said "When do we start...
...Moth Balls. Luckily the U.S. was not as badly off as it seemed. To date, the planes most needed in Korea are not the fastest, latest jets on which the aircraft industry's skeleton production is concentrating, but World War II types like the Mustang F-51. These are slower but have the longer cruising radius needed to fly from distant bases and provide tactical support for ground troops (see WAR IN ASIA). The U.S. had 4,600 such World War II planes in "moth balls" when the Korean war began and was rushing them into action. But Secretary...
...Bataan droned along, the weather grew better, and over southern Japan four Mustangs flew up to provide a fighter umbrella for,the general's plane. Overruling his subordinates, who wanted to land him ia safety at Korea's far southern port of Pusan, MacArthur insisted on heading for Suwon airstrip, 20 miles south of Seoul and a target of persistent North Korean bombing and strafing attacks. Over Korea, a Russian-built Yak tried to slip through the Mustangs to get at the Bataan. As a Mustang closed in on the Yak, MacArthur said hopefully...
...morning early in April a pair of U.S.-built Nationalist Mustang fighters swooped down to strafe Communist shipping in Hangchow Bay south of Shanghai. They were suddenly jumped from above, shot down by Communist planes: It was the first time in China's civil war that the Nationalists had met with aerial opposition. A rescued Nationalist pilot said his attackers flew Russian-built LA9 fighters. Six days later, the Nationalists claimed their pilots had encountered 25 Russian-made planes in the Shanghai area...