Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA4312 F-86F Sabre 52-4584, "MIG MAD MARINE" Major John Glenn, 25th FS, Suwon AB, Korea, 1953.
USMC Major John H. Glenn Jr. had flown
with VMF-311 but became an exchange pilot assigned to the USAF 25th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group at K13 Suwon, Korea.
He was equipped with an
F-86F-30 serial number 52-4548 with the names of his wife and two
children painted on it. Glenn had complained of a lack of MiGs and one morning
came out to find “MiG Mad
Marine” had been added. During the final two weeks of the war Glenn downed three MiG-15s.
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