STARFIRES Over Korea – F-94 pilots tangle with MiGs

319th Starfires in flight over South Korea on a photo op in early fall 1952. (Photo courtesy of Robert Haller)

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FOR THE FIRST FEW MONTHS of the Korean War, there was very little need for a nocturnal interceptor because the North Korean Air Force had been obliterated by U.S. fighters. In November 1950, this situation changed drastically. The sweptwing MiG-15 began flying south of the Yalu River, which put the airspace over friendly troops at risk along with the jampacked airbases south of the 38th parallel. Up until this time, the nightly alerts were manned...

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