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F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea

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F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea - Thompson, Warren E
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The Usaf's first successful jet fighter, the F-80 actually made a name for itself in combat as a strike bomber during the Korean War. A Shooting Star also shot down the first MiG-15 lost during the campaign in what is believed to have been the world's first ever jet-versus-jet engagement. Read in this volume how the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings in Korea, F-80Cs completed an amazing 98,515, combat sorties, shot down 37 aircraft (including six MiG-15s), dropped 33,266 US tons of bombs and fired off 80,935 air-to-ground ...

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F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea 2001, Osprey Publishing (UK), Osprey

ISBN-13: 9781841762258

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