The two fastest jet fighters in Koreathe 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.
In the second battlebiggest jet dogfight in air history35 to 40 MIGs fought 15 F-86s. After visible hits had been registered on two of...
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