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F-86A Sabre

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Dogfight

MSRP old price: $22.00


Product Info

Title
F-86A Sabre
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Peter E. Davies
Publish Year
2022
Pages
80
Dimensions
7.25x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147997114
MFG. Part #
OSPDOG004
Type
Softcover
Series
DOG004

Description

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 battle scene, 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.