DOC From Corunna to Waterloo: With the Hussars 1808 to 1815 by John Mollo in History

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The Usaf's first successful jet fighter; the F-80 actually made a name for itself in combat as a strike bomber during the Korean War. A Shooting Star also shot down the first MiG-15 lost during the campaign in what is believed to have been the world's first ever jet-versus-jet engagement. Read in this volume how the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings in Korea; F-80Cs completed an amazing 98;515; combat sorties; shot down 37 aircraft (including six MiG-15s); dropped 33;266 US tons of bombs and fired off 80;935 air-to-ground rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber F-80C photo-recce RF-80A/Cs and 'hack' two-seat T-33s are also featured.