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F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War
by Thompson, Warren
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1472829050
- ISBN 13
- 9781472829054
- Seller
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Forestdale, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Osprey Pub Co, 2019. New book, 96 pages, COM128. Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was sent to bases in the US, Europe and the Far East after VJ Day. It was the latter groups based in Japan that initially bore the brunt of the early fighting in Korea, engaging MiG-15s in the world's first jet-versus-jet combat. Flown principally by the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings, the F-80 served until the end of the war, completing an astonishing 98,515 combat sorties, shooting down 17 aircraft (including three of the vastly superior MiG-15s), dropping over 33,000 tons of bombs, and firing over 80,000 air-to-ground rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber Shooting Stars, the ultra-rare, but heavily used, photo-reconnaissance RF-80A saw extensive use in the frontline in Korea as a replacement for the vulnerable RF-51D. Filled with first-hand accounts and rare colour photographs taken by the veterans themselves, this is the engrossing story of the pioneering F-80 Shooting Star.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Laurier, Jim. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Viceroy Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009977
- Title
- F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War
- Author
- Thompson, Warren
- Illustrator
- Laurier, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- ISBN 10
- 1472829050
- ISBN 13
- 9781472829054
- Publisher
- Osprey Pub Co
- Date Published
- 2019
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- F-80 SHOOTING STAR KOREAN WAR AIRCRAFT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Korean War Aircraft;
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