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Check Six: F-86 Ace Hal Fischer, An Interview
Check Six: F-86 Ace Hal Fischer, An Interview
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"It's always better to have a MiG at your six o'clock than no MiG at all."
Although he still seemed like the pleasant Iowa farm boy he once was, Harold E."Hal" Fischer turned into a tiger in the cockpit of his F-86 fighter. After flying 105 ground support missions in F-80 fighter bombers, he wrangled a second Korean combat tour in the F-86. He wracked up MiG kills quickly. It appeared likely that he would become the highest-scoring ace of the Korean war.
Fischer's tenth victory came on his 66th mission. On his 70th, his luck ran out. In a fight over Manchuria, he damaged three MiGs before becoming the victory of Chinese MiG-15 pilot Han Decai.
Fischer would spend the next two years as a POW. He managed a brief escape, only to find himself in the bleak landscape of Manchuria - in winter - the only non-Chinese for hundreds of miles around. The Chinese finally released him in May 1955, long after the war was over.
Although he still seemed like the pleasant Iowa farm boy he once was, Harold E."Hal" Fischer turned into a tiger in the cockpit of his F-86 fighter. After flying 105 ground support missions in F-80 fighter bombers, he wrangled a second Korean combat tour in the F-86. He wracked up MiG kills quickly. It appeared likely that he would become the highest-scoring ace of the Korean war.
Fischer's tenth victory came on his 66th mission. On his 70th, his luck ran out. In a fight over Manchuria, he damaged three MiGs before becoming the victory of Chinese MiG-15 pilot Han Decai.
Fischer would spend the next two years as a POW. He managed a brief escape, only to find himself in the bleak landscape of Manchuria - in winter - the only non-Chinese for hundreds of miles around. The Chinese finally released him in May 1955, long after the war was over.
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