AERIAL BROWNIE. Gun cameras are synchronized with the.50 calibre machine gun fire on U.S. Air Force F-80 jet fighters and record every strike against the North Korean aggressors. Here, Cpl. Harvey Davis, 19, of Redfield, Kansas, inspects one of the gun cameras after an F-80 close support mission.

Leaving a fiery trail,.50 caliber bullets streak through the night as maintenance men of the 49th Fighter Bomber Wing in Korea, test fire a Republic F-84 "Thunderjet." Wing guns will be checked and put in perfect firing order before the plane takes off in the morning on a bombing and strafing missi

These F-84 "thunderjet" pilots study a map of proposed enemy targets prior to taking off from their Korean airstrip to deliver their destructive ordnance to the communists in North Korea HF-SN-98-07486

HQ., 20TH AIR FORCE, OKINAWA --- As take-off time approaches, Airman Joseph Migliardi, 274 King St., Port Chester, N.Y., runs a last minute check on the remote control apparatus of his.50 claiber machine guns

FIFTH AIR FORCE, KOREA--With a photograph of a Communist gun position in front of him, Sgt. James E. Kindseth moves in for a better view. His reports on Red flak are used in briefing fighter-bomber pilots on how best to approach heavily defended targets.

Allison J33 maintenance Korean War 1950

F-84E gun test in Korea 1952

Dense clouds of smoke from earlier attacks by Fifth Air Force tactical aircraft obscures most of the target area as an F-80 Shooting Star stands on its left wing tip banking sharply to line up another Korean Communist target in its gunsights.

98TH BOMB WING, JAPAN--Pfc. Benjamin Livingston flys as a gunner on one of the U.S. Air Force veteran 98th Bomb Wing's Superforts, defending the B-29 against Communist jet fighters.