Fallen Ace

In a battle over Korea's MIG Alley one day last week, Major George A. Davis Jr., greatest of U.S. jet fighter aces, chopped down two Communist MIG-15s, his 13th and 14th kills in the Korean war. With a wingman, he swept past ten more MIGs looking for the day's third victim.

But a stream of enemy fire caught Davis' Sabre jet; it flipped out of control and crashed to the ground behind the Communist lines before Davis could parachute out. The Air Force listed him as missing in action, but his flying mates felt sure that 31-year-old Ace Davis, of Lubbock, Texas, was dead.

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