{"product_id":"2940014781152","title":"Check Six: F-86 Ace Hal Fischer, An Interview","description":"\"It's always better to have a MiG at your six o'clock than no MiG at all.\"         \u003cbr\u003e           \u003cbr\u003e   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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   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.","brand":"Banana Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173478482160,"sku":"2940014781152","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014781152_p0.jpg?v=1763615341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014781152","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}