Re: Caucasians in MIG's

[Ed Evanhoe <ede@oio.net>]

>Marc,

> >>US NEWS & WORLD REPORT reported during the Korean War in several issues
>that some of the radio traffic controlling the MIG's was in German, causing
>them to speculate that East German pilots were a-foot.  Haven't a clue as
>to whether this was accurate or not.<<

When you think about it, using German would make sense because it is unlikely
the Soviet pilots spoke Chinese and using Russian would have been a give-away.
If anyone has more information on this, please post.  Interesting.




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