F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War

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Beschreibung

Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was sent to bases in the US, Europe and the Far East after VJ Day. It was the latter groups based in Japan that initially bore the brunt of the early fighting in Korea, engaging MiG-15s in the world's first jet-versus-jet combat.

Flown principally by the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings, the F-80 served until the end of the war, completing an astonishing 98,515 combat sorties, shooting down 17 aircraft (including three of the vastly superior MiG-15s), dropping over 33,000 tons of bombs, and firing over 80,000 air-to-ground rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber Shooting Stars, the ultra-rare, but heavily used, photo-reconnaissance RF-80A saw extensive use in the frontline in Korea as a replacement for the vulnerable RF-51D.

Filled with first-hand accounts and rare colour photographs taken by the veterans themselves, this is the engrossing story of the pioneering F-80 Shooting Star.

Über den Autor

Warren Thompson

Zusammenfassung

The F-80 Shooting Star is well represented in plastic model form, and the highly colourful markings that adorned these aircraft in Korea are greatly appealing to hobbyists, particularly in North America.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One:
PACAF pre-war
Chapter Two
Into combat from Japan - first 60 days of the war
Chapter Three
Flying from South Korea - fighting MiGs over the Yalu
Chapter Four
8th, 35th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings take the strain
Chapter Five
Replaced by the F-86 in the fighter role - only fighter-bombers now
Chapter Six:
Photo-recce RF-80s at War
Appendices
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472829054
ISBN-10:	1472829050
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thompson, Warren
Illustrator:	Laurier, Jim
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	249 x 182 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Warren Thompson
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.06.2019
Gewicht:	0,309 kg

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