This famous baseball player was a jet pilot in the Korean War who, after belly-landing his shot-up and burning airplane, jumped out and made his greatest slide home:
- Duke Snyder
- Ted Williams
- Johnny Mize
- Pee Wee Reese
- Sandy Koufax
This famous baseball player was a jet pilot in the Korean War who, after belly-landing his shot-up and burning airplane, jumped out and made his greatest slide home:
Ted Williams was a jet pilot in the Korean War who, after belly-landing his shot-up and burning airplane, jumped out and made his greatest slide home. U.S. Marine Fighter Squadron 311 got much of the credit for bringing the Flying Leathernecks into the jet age flying the Grumman Panther jet fighter in combat during the Korean War.