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...Australia-1,000 men, two destroyers, one 75-plane Mustang fighter squadron...
CAPT. "WHISTLIN' JOE" ROGERS, 26, of the 36th Squadron, Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group, had probably killed more North Koreans and Chinese than any other flyer. During World War II, to his disgust, he had been an instructor, saw no combat. He had made up for it in Korea. Air Force men liked to talk about Joe's exploits- his trick of barrel-rolling when he came in for a strafing run, the time he attached a whistle to one of his wings to scare the enemy, thus earned his nickname. The story they liked best...
None of the other fellows in his squadron liked this business of shooting civilians. But, "I figured if we had to kill ten civilians to kill one soldier who might later shoot at us, we were justified...
...Hagaru, C-475 had set down on an improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations in the northeast, and on one flight Wood himself was forced to fly back to base on trim tabs after Chinese ground fire had crippled the control surface of his elevators. But in four days Combat Cargo Command lifted...
These sections are organized into air armies, each consisting of three corps, with three divisions to a corps, three regiments to a division, and three squadrons to a regiment. A squadron has 30 to 50 planes...