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F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Frontline Colour

Last Stocked on 9/28/2006

Product Info

Title
F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Warren Thompson
Publish Year
2001
Pages
128
Dimensions
8.25x9.75x.33"
NKG Part #
2147343736
MFG. Part #
OSPFC05
Type
Softcover
Series
FC5

Description

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. Indeed, during the first four months of the conflict, F-80Cs bore the brunt of the fighting against numerically superior communist force, flying 15,000 sorties. 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. Flown principally by 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 rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber F-80C, photo-recce RF-80A/Cs and 'hack' two-seat T-33s are also featured in this book.

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