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Air War Korea 1950-1953 by Robert Jackson w/ dust jacket
Air War Korea 1950-1953 by Robert Jackson
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
160 pages
Copyright 1998
CONTENTS
A List of Abbreviations6
Introduction 7
1. Invasion9
2.The Combat Arena 17
3.The Battle for Pusan27
4.Inchon: MacArthur's Gamble35
5.The Strategic Air Offensive, JulyNovember 195045
6.Battle over the Yalu49
7.Holding On57
8.The Communist Air Offensive, 195167
9.The Red Air Offensive Final Phase JuneJuly 195179
10.Interdiction, AprilNovember 195185
11.The Renewed Air War, Autumn 195189
12.The Martyrdom of the B-29s, October 195195
13.The Air Battle Intensifies, December 1951 May 1952101
14.Railway Interdiction, September 1951 July 1952107
15.Battlefield Support, 1951-52111
16.Air Transport Forces119
17.Increasing the Pressure, June 1952 March 1953123
18.The Air Superiority Battle, June 1952 April 1953129
19.Last Battles, AprilJuly 1953137
20. Conclusions147
Appendix I: Air Aces of the Korean War151
Appendix II: Some Other Notable Air
Combat Victories152
Appendix III: Orders of Battle154
Appendix IV: Statistics158
Index159
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
When eight divisions of North Korean troops slammed through the 38th Parallel on June 25, 1950, it heralded a battle for air superiority of unprecedented dimensions and unleashed a new age of aviation fighting technology. The first generation of fighting jets from the Soviet Union battled with America's finest. Sabres and Migs fought their war high in the Asian sky while the older piston-powered warbirds with roots in WW2 battled it out around the contours of the hills below. Above all, Air War Korea is a story of men and courage of World War II veterans, many of them already aces, volunteering for combat duty in the cockpit of a jet and proving their worth day after day in the stratosphere against the cream of Russia's fighter planes. It is the story of the men who flew the United Nations' workhorses' the Thunderjets, Shooting Stars, Panthers, Corsairs and Skyraiders that turned North Korea into an economic desert, the B-29 crews who sacrificed themselves in MiG Alley during the first year of the war, and of the Meteor pilots of No 77 Squadron RAAF, whose first encounters with the MiG-15 proved disastrous. Robert Jackson captures the story of cold ruthless skill that turned thirty-year-old fighter aces from the piston era into jet aces of the new age.
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