Two Kills, Two Probables

In Korea, where peace is precarious and the Communists openly defy the truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters.

Last week eight Sabres from a South Korean base were jumped by 15 or 16 MIGs over open water some 40 or 50 miles southwest of Antung. The Red pilots failed to hit any Sabre, but the Americans shot up two of the enemy jets so badly that the pilots bailed out, and two other MIGs were seen tumbling toward the sea, trailing smoke. Score: two kills, two probables.

Peking, protesting, claimed that the Sabres had flown over Chinese islands. The U.N. command lodged a counterprotest at Panmunjom: "Again, you are officially warned that if aircraft of our side are attacked, they will defend themselves."

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