Chinese-Korean MiG Pilot Kills Top US Fighter Ace 中朝人民 空戰英雄 Jet Age War God Speed

MiG-15 vs F-86 Sabre China vs USA - The People's Liberation Korean Air War campaign grand finale loosely based on the true story of Korean War air war veteran Zhang Jihui, Group Leader of the 4th Air Division based in Liaoning Province at the time, and who's credited with the shooting down then top-ace fighter pilot of the Allied Air Forces in the Korean campaign at the time; 14-victory Ace fighter pilot Major George Davis of the US Air Force. These clips from the movie is overall, loosely based on the various accounts of the Chinese PLA and Korean fighter pilots shocked into the jet-age, and confronting highly trained and experienced fighter pilots, many of whom were Would War 2 air combat veterans. Ref. Wang Hai Joseph McConnell Han Decai Manuel Fernandez

Red Wings Over the Yalu by Zhang Xiaoming Texas A&M Publishing

The Chinese-Korean MiG pilot loosely represented in this movie by the protagonist "Air Division Leader Lao Gao", and the enemy manifested in the villain Sabre pilot "Major MacKing". While the Chinese and Korean fighter pilots achieved limited success, with a few remarkable highlights, most notably that of Air Division Leader Zhang Jihui's downing of Major George Davis; the US fighter pilots claimed a staggering 10:1 kill ratio, while the Russians pilots who participated in the training as well as incognito combat missions against the allied air forces at the time, claimed an even more-staggering 14:1 kill ratio against the American airpower.

Regardless of who's trying to upstage who, or who's truth is better; the combat records, forensic evidence, as well as time and location data, corroborate with the information that it was MIG-15 pilot Zhang Jihui who scored the F-86 Sabre jet victory flown by Major George Davis that day on the 10th of February 1952. Although USAF records can also help corroborate the claims to the downing of Major George Davis that day 10 February 1952, the US military and air-combat buffs in general, have traditionally been very tight-lipped and under-stating about aerial-combat achievements and victories made by pilots belonging to an Asian-based air forces. One may argue that the producer of this movie had made the Americans seem a bit too sinister and even as religious kooks; but I do not view this as an exaggeration of dominant attitudes and religious fundamentalism, which includes such cult of personality that is prevalent amongst my fellow Americans, often in effort to demonize others based upon ethnicity and/or the prevalent political system which certain people live under.

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[pakurangaguy]

I saw that plane flew by Davis was a F-84,I can tell from its canopy!

[WangDianshi]

@pakurangaguy

The only aircraft accurately depicted in this movie are the MiG-15's and the F-86's. The "F-84's" shown in this movie appear to be misrepresented by the Lockheed F-94 Starfire, which saw limited air-to-air combat in Korea.

[pakurangaguy]

Didnt the soviet airace Yevgeny Pepelyaev shot down the US airace Davis?

[WangDianshi]

@pakurangaguy

Non-ace pilot Zhang Jihui actually shot down Major Davis. Of Colonel Pepelyaev's 20+ aerial victories (and 1000+ total USSR claims) claimed by USSR and those white nationalists in USA and abroad, Pepelyaev can only confirm 6. In comparison, the PLAAF claimed only about 80. How many combat aircraft did the USA admit to losing? About 250? In other words, the Kill/Loss ratio for the Soviet pilots is about 14:1, but yet, USA can claim 10:1. Choose the propaganda that make you happy.

[kurthanson2005]

Davis surprised and attacked 12 Chinese MiG-15 fighters

[ORKSIZDABEST]

@pakurangaguy acepilots . com  / korea _ fisc her . html

[pakurangaguy]

There was another USAF ace 'Fischer' was shot down in the Korean war,he was a Sabre pilot, can anyone confirm this? who shot down that Fischer?

[chengda85]

@pakurangaguy 40 years after the Chinese recovered Davis's body from the crash site the soviets suddenly claimed out of nowhere that the soviet ace shot down Davis, I wouldnt believe that.

[WangDianshi]

@AeroSharkTech

Official Chinese records completely support how Zhang Jihui was shot down after downing Maj Davis, and the PLAAF were not fastidious in laying claim for that victory, because they had in fact considered the Russian's sortie. Only after a week of evidence gathering/locating Maj Davis' wreckage were the PLAAF able to claim the victory.

Among many anecdotal claims by PLAAF, USAF, and Russian pilots, there's Jihui's "2nd claim" as well as how the Russians claimed 3 Sabres that day.