Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority - Air Force ...

AIR SUPERIORITY
Fighter Weapons Review, Spring 1973, p 15.
103. Johnson, Full Circle, p 279.
104. Futrell, The USAFIn Korea, 1950-1953, p 607.
105. Ibid., pp 637-39.
106. Korean War, U.S. Pacific Fleet Operafions, Interim Evaluation Report No. 6,
Chapter 3: Carrier Operations, pp 3-83. MiGs clashed with F9F Combat Air Patrol aircraft
on Nov 18, 1952, during attacks by carrier aircraft on North Korean targets near the Russian
border. Though outnumbered by the attacking MiGs. the F9Fs shot down two opponents
and lost none. See Field, Historv of U.S. Naval Operations. Korea, pp 440-41.
107. J. T. Kenney, History of FEAF Participation in the Atomic Energy Program, Jul I,
1953-Jun 30, 1954, HQ, FEAF, Office of Information Services, AFHRC.
108. HQ, FEAF, FEAF Command Hisforical Report. vol 1, Jan 1953. p 28, AFHRC.
109. Kenney. History of FEAF Participation in the Atomic Energy Program, Jul 1. 1953-
Jun 30, 1954, p I.
110. Ibid.
1 I I. Lecture, by Gen H. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, USAF, to Air War College, May 6,
1953,AFHRC.
112. Kenney, History of FEAF Participation in the Atomic Energy Program. Jul I, 1953-
Jun 30. 1954, pp 4-5.
113. M. A. Olson and R. T. Sandborn, Aircraft Attrition in Korea, Ops Analysis Technical
Memo No. 31, Ops Analysis Div. DC of Staff. Operations, HQ. USAF, Feb 11, 1952, p 10,
Box 13, Entry 208. AF Ops, Technical Ops Analysis Reports, 1945-1957, MMB. NARA.
114. Intvw. Gen J. A. Roberts. CORON ACE. p 28.
115. Futrell. The USAF in Korea, 1950-1953, p 498.
116. Ibid., I, 493.
Bibliographical Essay
Government Sources
Official records of the Far East Air Forces and the Fifth Air Force are held by
the U.S. Air Force Historical Research Center at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
Records of the Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, are stored in the National
Archives in Washington, D.C. A number of Headquarters files are still classified,
although the staff of the National Archives is in the process of gradually opening
them for public examination. Relevant Navy records are controlled by the Navy
Department’s Classified Operational Archives in the Navy Yard in Washington,
D.C. However, the Navy has not declassified as many of its records as has the Air
Force. Because the air superiority campaign in Korea was largely an Air Force
effort, the classified nature of the many Navy records does not pose a major problem
to researchers.
The main official source for this chapter was the three-volume study of Air
Force operations prepared by Robert F. Futrell, United States Air Force Operations
in the Korean Conflict, Volume I: June 25-November 1, 1950 (USAF Historical
Study No. 71); Volume 11: November I, 1950-June30, 1952 (USAF Historical Study
No. 72); Volume 111: July 1, 1952-July 27, 1953 (USAF Historical Study No. 127).
The three volumes were printed, respectively in 1952, 1955, and 1956, and all were
originally classified. In 1961, Futurell. with the assistance of L. S. Moseley and A.
F. Simpson, published an unclassified account of Air Force missions and achievements
in Korea that was based closely on the three-volume classified study. The
title of their joint effort was The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953 (New
York: Duel, 1961). Slightly revised, the same work was republished in 1983 by the
Office of Air Force History. Thorough, readable, and accurate, The United States
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