Re: Soviet Claims

["Mark & Paula O'Neill" <poneill@freenet.tlh.fl.us>]

Hello Cookie,

    Thanks, I'd like some info on Naboka's book.  I was able to get some
stuff from each IADs unit history while out at Podol'sk (except for
Kozhedub's 324th).  Lt. General Georgii Lobov wrote a memo to the General
Staff (I believe in 1952) explaining that Soviet claims were too high by at
least a factor of three.  A variety of technological and geographic factors
contributed to this, but the special ops raids along the coast were a big
one.  The Soviets weren't getting reliable shoot down confirmations from the
North Koreans or the Chinese, but did not want to venture too near the coast
lest they get snatched.  Since most US aircraft in trouble tried to head for
the water, this limited the number of confirmed ground wreckage.  I've also
been looking a bit at the effectiveness of US air power on ground targets. 
Razuvaev's dissertation at the Voroshilov Academy in 1957 has some very good
stuff on the impact of US air on the North Koreans and some of the measures
they took to defend against it.  It is a very interesting subject, and I'm
looking forward to getting back to it.

Regards,
Mark
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>From: <AMPSOne@aol.com>
>To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu
>Subject: Re: Soviet Claims
>Date: Sun, Feb 27, 2000, 12:33 PM
>

>Mark,
>
>I have a copy of your dissertation which I received from Joe Bermudez and 
>found it fascinating. I thought you would really enjoy the new book by Naboka 
>as he has gone back through the Podol'sk archives and has really done a nice 
>job of formatting the results with full names and unit data. This is to be 
>the first of three, and each one will cover a year of the air war. The most 
>interesting one should be the third one, as by that time both sides seem to 
>have been extremely lenient on accepting claims. 
>
>Cookie Sewell
>