For some reason, the enemy's Russian-built MIG-15s come out to fight more willingly and in greater numbers on Sunday than on weekdays. Last week 1st Lieut. Ralph D. Gibson, operations officer of the Fourth Fighter Interceptor Wing, remembered the Reds' Sunday predilection. Eager for combat, he went over the wing's ready list for Sunday, scratched out another pilot's name, put down his own.
On Sunday, 28 of the wing's Sabre jets, flying top cover for other jets and B-29 bombers, were jumped by 70 or more MIGs in northwestern Korea. In the ensuing dogfight,...
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