Check Six: F-86 Ace Hal Fischer, An Interview

"It's always better to have a MiG at your six o'clock than no MiG at all."

Although he still seemed like the pleasant Iowa farm boy he once was, Harold E."Hal" Fischer turned into a tiger in the cockpit of his F-86 fighter. After flying 105 ground support missions in F-80 fighter bombers, he wrangled a second Korean combat tour in the F-86. He wracked up MiG kills quickly. It appeared likely that he would become the highest-scoring ace of the Korean war.

Fischer's tenth victory came on hi...