War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size,

and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history

through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome to a special topical episode of Key Battles of American History.

I'm your host, James Early, as always.

And so we've taken a break from the Korean War for a while.

We did a couple of interviews, and we did a four-part series on the Gettysburg film and the history behind it.

But if you're a long-time listener to the podcast, you will know that oftentimes when I finish a major series, I feel like there's more I should have included. I just have other things

I want to get off my chest to dive deeply into some other things that I wasn't able to go

as deeply as I wanted to in the regular series. And so that's what I'm going to be doing

for the next three episodes, including this one. In this episode, I'm going to be talking about the air war in the

Korean War. The Air War over Korea, next episode will focus on the naval war. And then in the third

episode in this mini-series, I'll be talking about prisoners of war. And as you know, that's one of my

favorite topics. It's a topic I find very interesting. So, without any further ado, let's go into the Air War in Korea. I'm going to be

flying solo on this one. See what I did there? Flying solo. All right. Sorry about that. But anyway,

I have to give credit where credit is due. My buddy Evan Muxen, who of course was my co-host for the Korean War series, Evan helped write this episode.

So this is a joint effort.

In fact, Sean McIver also contributed.

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