Word: treetops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Radioman Trippodi hung in his chute in excruciating pain. He had come down in a treetop near the peak of a steep, 4OO-ft. incline. Trying to unbuckle his harness, he slipped. His foot caught in the leg strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...