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Gabreski flew the new Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX, flying patrol sweeps over the Channel. He first encountered Luftwaffe opposition on February 3, when a group of Focke-Wulf Fw 190s jumped his squadron. Too excited to make a "kill", Gabreski learned that he had to keep calm during a mission, a lesson that served him well later in the war.
Francis S. "Gabby" Gabreski: USAF Colonel 6.5 (1 Shared) 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing: F-86 Sabre Also claimed 28 kills in World War II. [1] George L. Jones: USAF Lieutenant Colonel 6.5 (1 Shared) 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing F-86 Sabre Winton W. Marshall: USAF Major 6.5 (1 Shared)
Johnson was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, on February 21, 1920, the son of an automobile mechanic.In his war memoir, Thunderbolt!, he states that he first developed an interest in military aviation in the summer of 1928, when his father took him to see a United States Army Air Corps barnstorming team, "The Three Musketeers", [1] appearing at Ft. Sill's Post Field.
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Assigned to the veteran "MIG Killing" 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing, Col Gabreski is shown in the cockpit of his US Air Force F-86 Sabre jet after returning victoriously from combat. He scored his first aerial victory over Northwest Korea July 8 1952, when he sent one MIG-15 spinning earthward in flames, April 1952
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Gabby Gabreski (1919–2002), Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski was a U.S. Army Air Corps and later U.S. Air Force officer who was a fighter ace in World War II, and again in Korea [121] Stephen R. Gregg (1914–2005), U.S. Army T/Sgt, received the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II