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  • 712 large format pages,
    8 1/2 x 11 inch format
  • Over 1,000 never-before-
    published photographs from the Korean War era
  • Extensive glossary of terms and slang used by pilots and airmen during the Korean War
  • List of more than 3,500 Korean War veterans of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing.
  • Fewer than 200 copies remain of the first edition.
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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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UFN - Until further notice.

UHF - Ultra-high frequency; 300-3,000 MHz band.

UN - United Nations. When the Korean War broke out in June 1950, the U.N. was a relatively new organization.

UNC - United Nations Command

Uncle Joe’s Boys - Euphemism for Communist forces particularly pilots. “As we move into the month of June we anticipate another bad month for Uncle Joe’s Boys,” noted Major John Rees, CO of the 12th Squadron in May 1951.

UNCOK - United Nations Commission on Korea

UNCURK - United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea.

Unguibus Et Rostro - With talons and beak—was approved as the motto for the 18th Group on 21 Feb 1931 and for the 18th Wing on 17 Apr 1953 just prior to Korean Armistice.

Unknown Loss - “Any aircraft that is lost on a combat mission due to an undetermined cause.” (Memorandum No. 40, Operations Analysis Office, Hq. Fifth Air Force, 31 March 1951)

UNRC - United Nations Reception Center

Unsan, Battle of - Around dusk, Nov. 1, 1950, near the village of Unsan, a crossroads in west-central North Korea about 50 air miles southeast of the Yalu River, two 10,000-man CCF infantry divisions of the CCF’s 39th Army, XIII Army Group, launched an attack on two battalions of the Eighth U.S. Army’s Eighth Cavalry Regiment, First U.S. Cavalry Division and the 15th Regiment of the First Republic of Korea Division. This attack marked the beginning of recognized CCF intervention in the Korean War.

URC-4 - Emergency radio “used by airmen forced down behind the enemy lines.”

USA - U.S. Army; United States of America

USAF - U.S. Air Force

USAFI - United States Armed Forces Institute

USAFIK - U.S. Army Forces in Korea

USMC - U.S. Marine Corps

USO - United Service Organization

USS Boxer. Truckbusters from Dogpatch: The Combat Diary of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing in the Korean War, 1950-1953, ISBN 0-9640138-2-7 is the true-life account of the U.S. Air Force’s 18th Wing--12th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 12th Squadron, 18th Fighter Bomber Wing, 18th Wing, 2 Squadron SAAF, 2 Squadron South African Air Force, Flying Cheetahs, 39th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 67th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 67th Squadron, Fifth Air Force--from 1950 to 1953, the period of the Korean War (including: korean war battles, korean war history, korean war photographs, korean war stories, korean war veterans, and korean war videos), during which their air-combat heroism helped save South Korea from defeat by the North Korean and Chinese Communist Forces. The Truckbusters of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing flew the venerable P-51/F-51 Mustang for much of the Korean War, then transitioned into the F-86 Sabrejet, changing the history of Korean War and the U.S. Air Force in the process. Told as much as possible in the words of the heroic men themselves, this riveting chronicle of the “Forgotten War” is illuminated by more than 1,000 Korean War photographs, Korean War videos, Korean War Veterans’ memoirs and scrapbooks, and previously-classified U.S. Air Force military documents. By telling the 18th Wing’s Korean War story in such a vivid, tangible way, Truckbusters from Dogpatch author CAPT Tracy D. Connors, brings readers directly into the harrowing world of the unit’s fighter pilots, mechanics, medics, supply sergeants, and other unforgettable characters.
USS Boxer en route to Yokosuka, Japan, carrying 145 P-51 Mustang and six L-5 aircraft for the Air Force, 19 Navy planes, 1,012 troops and 2,000 tons of supplies.

USS BOXER - On Sunday, July 23, 1950, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS BOXERr (CV 21), arrived in Yokosuka, Japan following a record eight-day transit from Alameda, California. Her service with the 7th Fleet in the Far East during the first half of 1950 included conducting joint operations with Air Force units in the Philippines. She returned to San Diego, arriving 25 June 1950. With the outbreak of the Korean conflict she was pressed into service to carry desperately needed Air Force planes to Korea. On 23 July 1950 she completed a record crossing of the Pacific from Alameda, Calif., to Yokosuka, Japan, in just 8½ days, carrying 145 P-51 Mustang and six L-5 aircraft for the Air Force, 19 Navy planes, 1,012 troops and 2,000 tons of supplies. On her return trip—27 July-4 August—she cut the record to 7 days, 10 hours, and 36 minutes. She departed for the Far East on August 24th to join TF 77 in providing air support to the troops. Her planes covered the landing at Inchon September 15th and other ground action until November, when she departed for the west coast and a much-needed overhaul.

USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics