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Adventures of a Sabre ace – F-86s and MiGs mix it up over North Korea

In a scene reminiscent of MiG Alley during the Korean War, an F-86 Sabre is in hot pursuit of a MiG-15. Terry Klingele’s MiG and Mike Kennum’s Sabre close in on the camera of Erik Hildebrandt. The MiG is currently owned by the Vietnam War Museum in Houston, Texas, and the Sabre is now owned by the Warbird Heritage Foundation in Waukegan, Illinois.

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At the end of the Korean War in 1953, there were 39 Sabre aces, and one more was added 50 years later after footage of some gun-camera film had been closely examined. All these pilots had the right stuff, and they also had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. The fighter pilots turned out by the Air Force in the late 1940s and early 1950s were of the...

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