Cold War Vehicle I-D: ‘Bombing-up’ your F-80 Shooting Star in Korea!

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, developed at the end of World War Two.

In June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (north) invaded the Republic of Korea (south) in an attempt to unite the country (something that had been promised at the end of World War Two).  The recently created United Nations essentially declared war and created the United Nations Command, invading Korea in September 1950.  The United Nations Command still operates in South Korea, today.

Date and location not given, very likely to be Kimpo Air Base, 1950.

The F-80 had up to six Browning M3 .50 caliber (12.7mm x 99mm) machine guns.

General Purpose (GP) bombs.

I edited this silent USAF film (by H. E. Reid) showing the re-arming/re-fueling of F-80s on Kimpo, Korea, 19DEC1950:

Tiny Tim rocket and napalm bomb.

Filling up the ‘tip tank’.

Cold War Vehicle I-D:

Korea, date not known.

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