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F-80 Shooting Star Units over Korea (Osprey Frontline Colour 5)

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Warren Thompson is a friend of mine. I contributed information for his books. In Chapter 5 there is mention of my encounter with a MIG15& I jettioned my Tip Tanks to be more maneuverable & my wingman told me that the MIG on my tail flew Into the tanks. This was never confirmed but so what I got back to K-14 (Kimpo)in one piece. Warren got with pilots like me who flew 100 combat missions to be authentic & not full of stories. He is a Historian & an excellent author. His Chapters regarding F-80Cs deals with the pilots flying Fighter Bomber missions. These pilots along with F-84 pilots took the brunt of combat losses. They did not have easy missions. I lost many friends.

Francis W. Meyer, Major USAF Retired

I am a American Historian. I like introduce a Korean military aviation researcher,
Young Ki Moon,Seoul, Korea. I am a most important supplier of
his requesting important books and DVD,after his meticulous searches on Amazon.
occasionally, he sent me many valuable Reviews after his reading books.
Now,I introduce his review of this book as following:
It is my routine collections of Osprey frontline colour series as my emotionally
attached booksin my personal study library. My best favourite jet fighter all over the
world is 1st U.S.operational agile,pretty jet fighter, F-80 Shooting Star !
In my memory, it was exciting pleasure and chance to see very maneuverable,silvery white,
agile F-80 Shooting Star on commiuust occupied Seoul sky ,June27,1950 !
during early period of Korean War, F-80 pilot fighted in korea then rested with family in Japan
due to unreliable Korean air field !
I saw 1st air battle in Korean War,F-82G vs Yak-7U (1 Yak-7 shot down) and I,also,saw the
1st appearing F-80Cs(4 IL-10 attack bomber shot down).over the Seoul sky on june27,1950.
Photo-reconnaissunce flighting with RF-80A also started on June28,1950.
Main task of F-80C were intercepter and ground support strafing-bombing.
after first apperance of 6 MIG-15 was contended with F-51 Mustang, F-80C and MIG-15
had the first air battle,jet fighter vs jet fighter, of the world on Nov,8,1950 near the Yalu river.
F-80 pilot, Lt. Brown became victor of one MIG-15 killer.
after entering MIG-15, straight winged jet fighters such as F-80,F-84,F9F and Metere become
obsolute. afterward,F-80C became main fighter-bomber group throuhout Korean War.