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First published in Great Britain in 2014 by
PEN & SWORD AVIATION
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd,
47 Church Street,
Barnsley,
South Yorkshire,
S70 2AS
Copyright © Alan C. Carey, 2014.
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PAPERBACK ISBN: 978 1 78346 221 6
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Development
Chapter 2 – F-82E Long-Range Escort
Chapter 3 – Night and All-Weather Fighter
Chapter 4 – Twins over Korea
Chapter 5 – Interdiction and Air Support Missions
Chapter 6 – Fade into History
Appendices
A – P/F-82 Twin Mustang Specifications
B – Korean War F-82G Twin Mustangs
C – Korean War F-82 Aircraft Losses
D – Korean War F-82 Personnel Casualties
E – P/F-82 Unit Listing
Bibliography
Glossary
Introduction
At the beginning of the Second World War American radar technology and night
fighter development was considerably inferior to that of the British. By 1943,
however, American technology began to surpass British radar systems with the
introduction of the SCR-720. Throughout the Second World War aircraft
companies in the United States produced 900 night fighters for the U.S. Army
Air Force (USAAF) while the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operated a
considerably larger number because existing front-line fighters were better suited
for adaptation to the night fighter configuration. Late in November 1945, the
USAAF approved military characteristics for a jet-propelled aircraft as a post-
war successor to the Northrop P-61. At first the all-weather interceptor was
conceived as an aircraft that would be effective in daylight as well as at night or
during inclement weather. However, by 1946, Major General Curtis LeMay,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Research and Development, indicated that this concept
be revised due to the added weight of the radar gear which would limit aircraft
performance. Because the heavy radar-equipped all-weather fighter would be no
match for a small day fighter, ‘all-weather’ was to mean primarily night and
inclement weather. Military performance characteristics were then revised to
conform to this decision and designs for two experimental all-weather aircraft,
the Curtiss XP-87 Blackhawk and Northrop XP-89 Scorpion, were selected for
investigation.

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