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Last week all these comfortable assumptions were severely jarred. Just back from Korea, the Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg reported that the U.S. Air Force is in serious trouble. Goaded by the U.N.'s punishment of their supply lines, the Communists are striking back with massive air power of their own. Since September, they have built up their air force to 1,400 Russian-made planes. About 700 of them are MIG-15 jet fighters. "Almost overnight, China has become one of the major air powers of the world," said Vandenberg. "Our control...
Superior Plane. The details were even gloomier. The MIGs have inflicted punishing losses on daylight raids, have forced U.S. bombers to operate almost entirely at night and singly. "In many respects," Vandenberg admitted, "the MIG can out perform our own F-86-the only airplane in production today capable of challenging the MIG on approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with...
...What Vandenberg did not say is that to match the 700 MIGs, the Air Force has announced the presence of only one F-86 group (about 75 planes) in Korea. And present F-86 production is reportedly barely enough to replace normal losses...
Pumps & Gremlins. Other delaying factors include a machine-tool shortage and strikes. Since Korea, the workers in 21 major defense plants have walked off the job. At the Colorado Springs Commanders' Conference, Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg said the strikes have set the long-range program back a full year...
They expect the backing of the H.Y.R.C. which in 1948 was able to put through the nomination of the late Senator Arthur A. Vandenberg at a convention held here in Cambridge and attended by nearly 60 representatives of Your Republican groups all over the counted. They expect even less trouble this yet since Ike is a stronger candidate this was the able but aging Vandenberg. Furthermore virtually all liberal support, the feel, will fall to the Eisenhower force where in '48 this suport was divided between Stassen, Dewey, Warren, and Vandenberg...