Strap in alongside the Sabre pilots as they experienced the world's
first large-scale jet-vs-jet combats. Brought to life with innovative
tactical artwork and dramatic first-hand accounts from the pilots
themselves.
The F-86A Sabre had entered USAF service in 1949, and in December 1950
three squadrons were sent to South Korea. Despite primitive basing
conditions and overwhelming Chinese opposition, the Sabre pilots stopped
communist air forces from attacking UN ground troops and allowed Allied
fighter-bombers to operate without threat of interception. The ensuing
air battles between Sabres and MiG-15s were the first since World War
II, and the last in recent times to involve large numbers of jet
fighters in direct confrontation. In all of them the victorious F-86
pilots demonstrated the superiority of their training and tactics and
the outstanding qualities of their Sabres.
Contemporary photographs and specially commissioned artwork, including a
dramatic battlescene, armament views, technical diagrams and ribbon
diagrams illustrating step-by-step each main dogfight explored in the
book, bring the experiences of the Sabre pilots and their battle tactics
vividly to life.