Warren Thompson

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F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean WarPaperback, 18 June 2019

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Part of Series
Combat Aircraft
Print Length
96 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Osprey Publishing (UK)
Date Published
18 Jun 2019
ISBN-10
1472829050
ISBN-13
9781472829054

Description

A fully illustrated study of the US Korean War fighter that fought in the first ever jet-versus-jet engagement in the history of aviation.

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

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.

Product Details

Author:
Warren Thompson
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 June 2019
Dimensions:
24.64 x 18.29 x 0.76 cm
Illustrator:
ISBN-10:
1472829050
ISBN-13:
9781472829054
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
96
Weight:
317.51 gm

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