One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University

Korean War, dropping some 580 tons of firebombs on Sinuiju, North
Korea.
November 28–December 10: Combat Cargo Command C–119s and C–47s
air-dropped and landed some 1,580 tons of equipment and supplies,
including eight bridge spans, for the 1st Marine Division, which Communist
Chinese forces had surrounded at the Chosin (Changjin)
Reservoir area in northeastern North Korea. The C–47s also evacuated
almost 5,000 sick and wounded marines from Hagaru-ri and Koto-ri.
December 5: Combat Cargo Command evacuated 3,925 patients from
Korea on 131 flights—the most aeromedical airlift that occurred in
one day during the Korean War. United Nations forces abandoned the
North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
December 9: A USAF C–47 made the first successful night drop of agents
behind enemy lines in Korea.
December 14–17: Combat Cargo Command evacuated 228 patients, 3,891
other passengers, and 20,088 tons of cargo from Yonpo Airfield as Chinese
troops pressed X Corps in the Hamhung-Hungnam defense
perimeter of northeastern Korea. Naval transports removed the
remainder of X Corps by December 24.
December 17: For the first time, Far East Air Forces F–86s encountered
North Korean MiG–15s in combat. Lt. Col. Bruce H. Hinton scored
the first F–86 victory over a MiG–15.
The F–86 Sabre was the preeminent USAF air-superiority fighter in the
Korean War.
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