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F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War
96 page book.

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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.

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








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