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

F-80 Shooting Star Units over Korea (Osprey Frontline Colour 5)
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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 rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber F-80C, photo-recce RF-80A/Cs and 'hack' two-seat T-33s are also featured.
Country USA
Brand Osprey
Manufacturer Osprey Publishing
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2001-06-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781841762258

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