Dogfight 4 F-86a Sabre Paperback

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Strap in alongside the Sabre pilots as they experienced the world’s first largescalejet-vs-jet combats. Brought to life with innovative tactical artwork and dramatic firsthandaccounts from the pilots themselves.The F-86A Sabre had entered USAF service in 1949, and in December 1950 threesquadrons were sent to South Korea. Despite primitive basing conditions andoverwhelming Chinese opposition, the Sabre pilots stopped communist air forces fromattacking UN ground troops and allowed Allied fighter-bombers to operate without threatof interception. The ensuing air battles between Sabres and MiG-15s were the firstsince World War II, and the last in recent times to involve large numbers of jet fighters indirect confrontation. In all of them the victorious F-86 pilots demonstrated the superiorityof their training and tactics and the outstanding qualities of their Sabres.Contemporary photographs and specially commissioned artwork, including a dramaticbattlescene, armament views, technical diagrams and ribbon diagrams illustratingstep-by-step each main dogfight explored in the book, bring the experiences of theSabre pilots and their battle tactics vividly to life.Sales and Marketing HighlightsThe tactics and technicalities of aerial combat in an F-86A are presented in anaccessible and exciting manner using ribbon diagrams and new, dramaticartwork by outstanding digital artists.There is an increasing level of interest in the Korean War period amongreaders and hobbyists.Accounts of aerial engagements by F-86 pilots, both aces and relative‘unknowns’ supported by photographs expertly bring the story to life.