Stratos Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Hello! Can someone recommend a couple of books about Korean Air War? Will be cool a general overview not a hardly centered on the USAF Sabres Thank's! Quote
gosquidgo Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 I read Crimson Sky- The Air Battle for Korea at the local base library, very interesting. It dealt with many other types of aircraft besides Sabres and also had some figures contradicting the very high kill ratios that we claimed. The true Sabre kill ratio may have been as little as 2 or 3:1. Check it out. Quote
DWCAce Posted April 25, 2008 Posted April 25, 2008 Sabres Over Mig Alley. It's an excellent read. Quote
+DoctorQuest Posted April 25, 2008 Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) Fiction or non-fiction? If non-fiction a good resource is http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publi.../titleindex.htm. Not restricted to the Korean War. Search the page for "Korea". Edited April 25, 2008 by kirbykern Quote
Slant6 Posted April 25, 2008 Posted April 25, 2008 Hello! Can someone recommend a couple of books about Korean Air War? Will be cool a general overview not a hardly centered on the USAF Sabres Thank's! A couple of out of print books by Robert Dorr and Warren Thompson: Korea : the air war, and Korea the air war (2) are good for starts. They're very pictoral, but give a good overview of all the "birds" in that war, not just sabres. Quote
censored Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 The United States Air Force in Korea, by Robert Futrell is the most comprehensive work that I'm aware of - but not a light read (over 800 pages). If you're looking for something a little lighter - which touches on Korea but is not necessarily restricted to Korean war experiences - there's always Robert Dorr's Air Combat: An Oral History of Fighter Pilots. As was alluded to previously, there are a lot of books out there that deal exclusively with the Sabres. Quote
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