Re: USAF Losses in Korea

[<wrangler01@prodigy.net>]

Stephen,

I have a similar interest but started working on my "solution set" only recently.  Exactly what is it that you mean when you say "USAF losses in Korea"?  Is that aircraft? Aircrews? Both? What about time frame? 25 Jun 1950-27 Jul 1953 I assume--? What geographic region defines "in Korea"? Korea + Manchuria + Yellow Sea + Sea of Japan + USSR? What type of losses?  Combat?  Non-combat? Change any one of these variables and you get a different answer.  Statistics are fun aren't they?  :-)

John D.


 ---- On Feb 20 <AMPSOne@aol.com> wrote: 
> I am new to the list and the group, but have been working on the Soviet and 
> Chinese views of the Air War now since 1990. I have also shared most of the 
> translations I've done (I am a Russian linguist) with DPMO over the years. 
> 
> I am trying to get a straight answer about USAF losses in Korea, which, to 
> this day, appear to have been muddied and hidden to prevent any accurate 
> accounting of air-to-air losses. A request for this info to CAFH has gone 
> unanswered for five years now, so am sure that it is what could politely be 
> called "stonewalled". 
> 
> I have a lot of the Soviet info and statements, and have read the new book 
> from V. Naboka which covers the first 13 months of the air war and presents 
> it in a completely different light. (This is extracted from the official 
> archives at Podol'sk on PVO operations.) 
> 
> Any info or discussion would be appreciated!
> 
> CW2 Stephen L. "Cookie" Sewell
> AUS (Ret)