Again Gabby

"Wait'll you get 'em right in your sights. Then short bursts. There's no sense melting your guns." That was Lieut. Colonel Francis S. ("Gabby") Gabreski's formula for picking Messerschmitts out of the air in the last war. It worked well enough to make Gabby the U.S.'s top-ranking ace in the European Theater, with 28 Nazi planes to his credit before a forced landing in 1944 grounded him for ten months in a German prison camp.

This week, as the newly appointed commander of the U.S. Air Force's Fourth (Sabre jet) Fighter Interceptor Group, Gabby, now a full colonel, got a chance to try his formula on Communist MIGs in Korea. Some 15 MIG-15 jets had pounced on a mass flight of U.S. prop-driven Mustangs just north of Pyongyang when Gabreski and his Sabres roared to the rescue. In short order Gabby knocked out one MIG--his first kill in Korea. His teammates shot down two more, damaged a third and sent the others streaking home to Manchuria.

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