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...last week's air battles over Korea, U.S. Sabre jets shot down 14 MIG fighters in flames, without the loss of a single Sabre in air combat. Nonetheless, the week's price was the highest paid by U.S. airmen in the past eight months. Eight wide-ranging U.S. Air Force planes were destroyed by Red gunners ("There was so much flak it looked like confetti," said a Thunder jet pilot). And Communist night fighters, guided by the Reds' accurate radar network, shot down two B-29s, each one carrying eleven crewmen...
...Last MIG Lieut. James F. ("Dad") Low, 27, left Korea for the U.S. last week, through with combat but not with flying. The Air Force has belatedly become the focus of his life: with nine MIG kills to his credit, he is one of the three top U.S. jet aces.-At 25, Jim Low thousht of himself as a failure and a misfit. He had tried being a gambler, but could get nowhere with cards, dice or horses. Raised in Sausalito, a California town across the bay entrance from San Francisco, he had served three wartime years in the Navy...
...Nine is too uneven. high MIG, but it disappeared in a haze. The wingman tangled with the diving MIG, which had a resourceful pilot in the cockpit. When the wingman had tired himself out trying to get a shot, Low took over, and the Red pilot almost tired Low out, trying to scrape him off against a high ridge, then trying to blind him in the sun. At last Low got the enemy in his sights, poured .50-caliber slugs into the engine and tail section, saw the MIG's canopy fly off. But the American needed...
...More planes, including 1,500 MIG 15s, 1,500 Yak fighters, 600 four-engine Tupolev bombers, 1,000 cargo planes...
...enemy seemed plainly to be hurt. For the first time in months, he sent his MIG-15s across the Yalu in large numbers to challenge the U.N.'s strengthened and revitalized air forces. But the Red jets accomplished nothing. In six consecutive days of aerial fighting, U.S. Sabres shot down 19 MIGs, and Sea Furies from a British carrier destroyed a 20th. During this period, the U.N. lost eight planes (four to Communist ground fire, four from other causes, but none in air combat with the MIGs...