Word: mig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shipped to Korea in two aircraft carriers, another wing of Sabres has arrived to fight the enemy's MIG-158. But though this doubled the number of Sabres in combat-now 150-they are still heavily outnumbered by the Reds' 700 MIGs...
...enemy seems to be using "MIG Alley" (northwestern Korea) to train novices in regular cycles, removing each class when it gets fully seasoned. But each class is a little better than its predecessor...
...special creative ability is vital to Russia, as in the fields of science and war, it is imported from the West. The Soviet Union is an avid subscriber to technical magazines the world over. Of the four Russian types of car, two are Packards. The atom bomb and the MIG fighter came from the West-if only from Eastern Germany...
Three of the bombers and the one MIG were destroyed by Major George A. Davis Jr., a slight, blue-eyed Texan who raised his total kills to six and became the fifth ace of the Korean war (he shot down seven enemy planes in the Pacific during World War II). It was the day before his 31st birthday. He and his flight-mates feted their victory with roast beef and whisky...
Army & Air Targets. The air war in "MIG Alley" (see below) and U.N. air attacks on the enemy's rear went on without letup. Van Fleet's original order on ground activity was soon modified. Some allied artillery crews began firing at "any and all targets." In one night, U.N. airmen sighted 9,700 enemy trucks rolling south toward the front, many of them with their headlights on for the sake of more speed. The airmen claimed to have destroyed 300 trucks, only a small fraction of the enemy traffic, the heaviest of the entire...