Korean War Air-Ground Glossary
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The Korean War Air Combat Glossary includes military terms, slang and definitions used by the Korean War veterans to whom Truckbusters From Dogpatch is dedicated.
To help establish additional military and air force history resources about the so-called "Forgotten War," the Glossary also includes biographical information, Korean War stories and photographs of many leaders of the 18th Fighter-Wing, Fifth Air Force and other senior military leaders whose decisions affected the missions and operations of the 18th Wing, 18th Fighter-Bomber Group and the Wing's associated squadrons. The Glossary includes many photographs and video of 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing Korean War air combat operations when they were flying the P-51 Mustang and the F-86 Sabrejet aircraft.
The list includes the names and where known, biographical information about those pilots and Airmen who lost their lives during 37 months of Korean War combat. The information is far from complete and will certainly be expanded through the efforts of the 18th Fighter Bomber Wing Association and others.
The names of Two Squadron, South African Air Force (SAAF) fliers are also included.
Information on American pilots is drawn from the files of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing Association, family records and recollections, and, where possible, from unit history reports. Sadly, even the unit histories were often incomplete or hasty in recording the status or circumstances of a pilot and his loss to the unit. When the unit history does mention the pilot, however briefly, that notation is included.
Excerpted from over 3,500 terms and definitions found in Truckbusters From Dogpatch
Letters: A-Al ♦ Am-Az ♦ B-Bi ♦ Bi-Bz ♦ C-Cl♦ Co-Cz ♦ D ♦ E ♦ F-Fl ♦ Fm-Fz ♦ G ♦ Ha-Hf ♦ Hg-Hz ♦ I ♦ J ♦ K ♦ L ♦ M-Me ♦ Mf-Mz ♦ N ♦ O ♦ Pa-Pi ♦ Pj-Pz ♦ Q ♦ Ra-Ri ♦ Rj-Rz ♦ Sa-Sh ♦ Si-Sz ♦ Ta-Tg ♦ Th-Tz ♦ U ♦ V ♦ W ♦ X ♦ Y ♦ Z
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JADF - Japan Air Defense Force
JAG - Judge Advocate General
JALCO - Joint Airlift Control Organization
JAMESTOWN - Korean War defensive line to be established by Operation COMMANDO.
JATO - Jet-Assisted Take Off
JCS - Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jet Stream - A combat tactic used by Sabre jets in which flights were planned to arrive in patrol areas at five-minute intervals, provided a minimum of four separate high-speed forces within easy supporting distance of each other. See Train formation.
JLC - Japan Logistical Command
Jnl - Journal
JOC Alert Missions - When on JOC alert, the “pilots stood by in Squadron Operations awaiting word from Combat Operations that they were to scramble. Fifteen minutes was allowed to obtain the ‘flims’ 19 (which gave controllers, coordinates, time on target and mission number) and the authentication sheets, to brief, and to get airborne. As soon as the four or eight aircraft committed were landed from a mission, the same number was expected to be ready to go again. There was normally at least an hour or so between each ‘scramble.’ However, because the missions were rotated among the three Squadrons, forty minutes was allowed normally between receipt of the mission information at combat operations and the time on target, since the front was 18 minutes away at the closest point and 25 at the furthest,” the 12th reported.
JOC - Joint Operations Center. “The physical make-up of the center included an Air Force combat operations section and an Army air-ground operations section.” 21 The Tactical Air Control Center (TACC), was designed to operate in close association with the JOC and serve as the focal point for aircraft control and warning activities of the tactical air force.
Joyce, 1st Lt. H.T.R. “Theo” - 2nd Squadron SAAF pilot KIA on 29 October 1951. It was ‘Theo’ Joyce’s first combat mission. He was flying No. 2 for Lt. Pretorious, who was flight leader on a rail interdiction mission at TD4893, approximately twenty miles north of the bomb line. No.3 reported a coolant and was ordered, with No. 4 to return to K-46. Soon after, Joyce reported his engine was smoking, so he and Pretorious began their return to K-46, as well. A new report from Joyce indicated that his engine was running normally, once more, whereupon Pretorious decided they should attack the secondary target, Inchon, directly on their route back to K-46. Pressing in for the attack, Joyce was instructed to select and arm his bombs. After pulling away in a steep climb after the attack, Pretorious observed a large explosion on an Inchon hillside, an explosion that he knew was not from a bomb. Repeated calls to Joyce on the radio were unanswered. He concluded that Joyce had crashed into the hill during his bomb run. Subsequent searches revealed no sign of the plane or pilot.Joto - Slang meaning “OK.” “This afternoon the mobile UHF repair team came and fixed up our radios for us. They took until after dark, but everything is joto now,” noted Lt. Ken Barber near the Yalu River on 14 November 1950.
Josephine - Radio code word meaning “low on,” as in “Josephine ammo” or “Josephine fuel.”
JP-1 - Jet fuel (refined kerosene). Produced in various “grades,” e.g. JP-3 (Navy) or JP-4 (F-86F).
JSPOG - Joint Strategic Plans and Operations Group