planes often worked at heights of more than seven kilometers, and so anti-aircraft artillery shells burst in the air without doing any harm to them. We helped our air forces as much as we could. The MiGs were inferior to Sabres in many respects. Their turning radius was just one hundred meters. They were equipped with radar and guidance systems. “ At that time, the most modern aircraft, the F-86 Sabre, started to come off the assembly lines in American factories. “Our air forces were suffering heavy losses,” writes Melteshinov. Marines fighting Chinese forces, December 1950Ĭpl. F4U-5 Corsairs provide close air support to U.S.
