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Fighter Pilots of the Korean War

Warfare

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Flying the Corsair F4 U-Corsair

The Corsair is a propeller driven engine that's inside it. It's flying during the rising period the heyday of the jet fighters. I don't think anybody had really seen the MiG up close at that point to know what they were up against Originally these guys were flying Bearcats, which is just a hot rod. They're picturing attacking Yosif Stalin tanks I s2s that kind of stuff then when they actually go to Korea They meet the MiG for the first time and it actually you know the movie devotion has the MiGs come in or at least one MiG and there is this pretty cool aerial battle.

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