Description: F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 : Korea 1950-53, Paperback by Dildy, Douglas C.; Thompson, Warren E., ISBN 178096319X, ISBN-13 9781780963198, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
As the routed North Korean Peoples Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN air supremacy over both the battlefields and the logistics channels from China into North Korea. Reluctantly, Josef Stalin agreed to provide the requisite air cover, introducing the superior swept-wing MiG-15 to counter the Americans straight-wing F-80 jets and to repel the United States Air Force (USAF) B-29 bomber formations that were interdicting the PRCs flow of troops and supplies into North Korea. This in turn prompted the USAF, against its conventional wisdom of retaining its first-line air-defence fighters to face Soviet air forces across the Iron Curtain in Europe, to deploy its very best - the F-86A Sabre - to counter this threat. Thus began a two-and-a-half-year struggle in the skies over a corner of North Korea known as "MiG Alley."
In this period, the unrelenting campaign for aerial superiority witnessed the introduction of successive models of these two revolutionary jets - the MiG-15bis, the F-86E, and eventually the F-86F - into combat. It also saw the transition of operational leadership on the communist side from the Soviet "volunteers" to the newly formed Chinese PLAAF air divisions, and witnessed the re-introduction of the NKPAF, with its "just trained" MiG-15 units, into the air-combat arena. This meticulously researched study not only provides technical descriptions of the two types and their improved variants, complete with a "fighter pilots assessment" of these aircraft, but also chronicles the entire scope of their aerial duel in "MiG Alley" by employing the recollections of the surviving combatants - including Russian, Chinese, and North Korean pilots - who participated.
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Book Title: F-86 Sabre Vs Mig-15 : Korea 1950-53
Number of Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: Military / Korean War, Military / General, Military / Aviation
Illustrator: Laurier, Jim, Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 9.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: Douglas C. Dildy, Warren Thompson
Item Width: 5.6 in
Book Series: Duel Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
