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

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

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

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

by Bob Bergin

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Overview

"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 his 66th mission. On his 70th, his luck ran out. In a fight over Manchuria, he damaged three MiGs before becoming the victory of Chinese MiG-15 pilot Han Decai.

Fischer would spend the next two years as a POW. He managed a brief escape, only to find himself in the bleak landscape of Manchuria - in winter - the only non-Chinese for hundreds of miles around. The Chinese finally released him in May 1955, long after the war was over.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014781152
Publisher: Banana Tree Press
Publication date: 06/09/2012
Series: China Sky , #2
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Bob Bergin, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer, writes on the history of aviation in Southeast Asia and China, the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), and military operations in the World War II China-Burma-India theater.
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