Re: Shooting Star

[<jackchwang@comcast.net>]

Cookie Sewell wrote:
> The "78" Sabre losses broke down as 7 A models, 58 E models and 13 F
> models. But from the "Mig Alley" book the Korean War cost the USAF
> just over 200 F-86s lost in combat, to ground fire and in accidents.
> (They list over 700 Sabres that rotated through Korea as well.)
 
To be a little bit accurate, the total number of Sabres is 674, and the
number of losses is 231.  I have OCRed their tables into Excel for easier
counting.

However, the summary in the Appendix B showed 5th Air Force lost 224
Sabres.  So there should be seven losses belonging to other air forces.
I could only find 3 SAAF (while a SAAF web site gave 4 Sabre losses) in
the list, and there are 3 losses with the unit put down as "Oth(er) FIS".

The same summary said there were 19 AAA losses for 5th Air Force.  The
list acutally has 20, plus 1 for SAAF.
  
Jack