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AIR SUPERIORITY
weights Over Korea: B-29 Employment in the Korean War,” by the staff of Bomber
Command, Far East Air Forces (Vol. 7, No. I).
Finally, there are two excellent unclassified and unofficial studies of fighter tactics
that deserve mention. Without recourse to one or both, non-pilots will find it
difficult to visualize what happened in the air over North Korea during the conflict.
The first is “No Guts-No Glory,” by Maj. E C. Blesse (USAF). First prepared as a
mimeographed pamphlet in 1953, Blesse’s guide to shooting down a MiG was
reprinted in USAF Fighter Weapons Review, Spring 1973. A much more detailed
and technical discussion is R. L. Shaw, Fighter Combat, Tactics and Maneuvering,
(Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1985), especially Chapter One.
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