Baker, who had flown British Spitfires against the Luftwaffe in 1942, was now, at 34, a colonel and commander of the Air Force’s 4th Fighter ... jet-to-jet ace of the Korean war.

The Museum’s F-86A was assigned to the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group ... in Korea in December 1950. It flew its combat sorties from Kimpo Air Base near Seoul. The furious pace of cold war ...