Introduction

Dogfights is a military aviation themed TV series depicting historical re-enactments of air-to-air combat that took place in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, as well as smaller conflicts such as the Gulf War and the Six-Day War.

The program consists of former fighter pilots sharing their stories of actual dogfights in which they took part, combined with computer-generated imagery (CGI) to give the viewer a better perspective of what it is like to engage in aerial combat.

Dogfights originally aired on the History Channel from November 2005 to May 2008. Repeats of the series are currently airing on the digital broadcast network Quest.

Outline

Often in a dogfight, the faster plane is at an advantage.

The episode includes aerial combat by James F. “Lou” Luma and his DH.98 Mosquito against multiple Luftwaffe aircraft and Jerry O’Keefe becoming an ace in a day in his F4U Corsair against kamikaze D3A Vals off Okinawa in World War II; Bruce Hinton scoring the first F-86 Sabre kill against a MiG-15 in the Korean War; and Phil Handley scoring the only recorded supersonic gun kill in history in his F-4 Phantom against MiG-19s in the Vietnam War.

Dogfights Series

You can find a full index of Dogfights here.

Production & Filming Details

• Creator(s): Cynthia Harrison, Jason McKinley, and Brooks Wachtel.
• Narrator(s): Phil Crowley.
• Director(s): Jason McKinley, Robert Kirk, and Wayne Weiss.
• Producer(s): Robert Kirk, Rob Lihani, Abe Scheuermann, and David Connelly.
• Production: Digital Ranch.
• Distributor(s): History Channel.
• Release Date: 29 February 2008.
• Running Time: 45 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.