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Re: George A Davis and his aircraft
Stig,
When I published my US Post-WW2 Victory List, I relied on the microfilm copies of USAF Form 5s held at the Military Personnel Records Center in St Louis, a part of NARA. His Form 5s for Korea showed his credited victories for each mission, and all of those were noted as flying the F-86E.
Since then I have received a copy of a list of victories prepared by a North American Aviation tech rep who was assigned to the 4th FIW. He kept track of the serial number, type of gun sight, and ammo fired for each claim. These show George Davis as flying a mix of F-86A-5 and F-86E-5 (and an F-86E-10 on his last mission).
Creighton appears to have flown the F-86A-5 for all of his victories. The serial number for only one is given as 49-1225 (Oct 23, 1951), the other serial numbers are unknown (to me). Claims for 2/1/2 are given for 49-1225 involving four different pilots.
When I get the time I plan to bring back all my Victory Lists, and hopefully publish a few more. But it is going to take some time.
Enjoy!
Frank.
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