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The Korean War was the first of the small wars that dragged the American flag through Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq after 1945.
In search of a decisive victory, Communist and UN armies surged clashed across the Korean hills and skies.
Between December 1950 and July 1953, the northwest corner of North Korea between the Chongchon and Yalu rivers witnessed an air campaign unlike any other in history.
It was almost entirely fought by two opposing forces: those flying the North American F-86 Sabre, the US Air Force's premier air superiority day-fighter, and those flying the Soviet Red Air Force's powerful interceptor, the MiG-15.
The technological protagonists were different, yet curiously well-matched.
The MiG-15 was a bomber-killer whose prey were the B-29 Superfortresses pounding North Korea.
The Superforts that had terrorized Tokyo in 1945 were such sitting ducks in 1950 that they had to switch to night bombing missions where the MiG-15 was much less deadly.
But then like a near-supersonic cavalry (maximum speed about 680 miles per hour) came a few squadrons of F-86s.
And the fight was ON!
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