Originally Posted by Seafire
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it was an F 82 that shot down the first enemy A/C during the Korean War...


And set a record:

The F-82B on display, Betty-Jo, flew from Hawaii to New York on Feb. 27-28, 1947, a distance of 5,051 miles, the longest non-stop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=284

Bruce