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...their own, Nationalist pilots flying U.S.-built F-86 Sabre jets put on a superb show against the Communists' faster, Russian-built MIG-17s last week...
...MIG attack dampened optimism about the growing air and sea supply line to Quemoy. Success in resupplying the artillery-blockaded island and the promise of bigger supply efforts had prompted American officials to predict yesterday that Quemoy could hold out at the present level of supply runs...
TAIPEI--A sudden attack by four Communist MIG 17s on Chinese Nationalist supply planes off Quemoy heightened the danger today of the offshore island war entering a new and more deadly phase...
...MIG attacks against supply planes and ships could bring renewed Nationalist demands for American approval to bomb newly activated Communist jet bases on the mainland...
...miles away from the Marine base, Matador missiles-capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto mainland China-stood on 24-hour alert, their crews constantly rehearsing countdowns. Elsewhere on the same field, a Chinese air force major, fresh from a kill of a Communist MIG, talked over combat tactics with an American captain who was about to take him up in one of the F-100 Super Sabres which the U.S. is providing to replace the slower Thunderjets and Sabres now flown by the Nationalists...