"MiG Alley" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, William T. Y'Blood, MiG Alley: The Fight for Air Superiority, Air Force History and Museums Program, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "This first mission had not gone into the section of northwest Korea soon to become known as “MiG Alley.” December 17 saw the 4th FIW F-86As make their first foray into that area.[…]\nBecause of fuel concerns, Hinton’s planes entered the combat area at a leisurely Mach 0.62. It became apparent that this speed was too slow to effectively counter the MiG-1 5s. After the first encounters, the 4th FIW pilots realized this fact and began entering MiG Alley at speeds above Mach 0.85.",
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          "text": "Along the Manchurian frontier was a 160km strip of land the US pilots dubbed 'MiG Alley'. Beyond it lay the North Korean, Chinese and Russian squadrons. From those airbases, MiGs sallied forth to attack the bombers striking North Korea.\nFor the American pilots, MiG Alley was a hunting ground. In the 25 minutes their fuel allowed them over the area, they tore through the clouds at 1,000km/h.",
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          "text": "Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home. U.S. press coverage of the air war focused, instead, on “MiG alley,” a narrow patch of North Korea near the Chinese border. There, in the world’s first jet-powered aerial war, American fighter pilots competed against each other to shoot down five or more Soviet-made fighters and become “aces.”",
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        "(informal, historical, 1950s Korean War) A region of North Korea, close to the Yalu River, where MiG-15 fighters would typically be encountered."
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          "word": "米格走廊"
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