Re: First appearance MiG-15s

[Donald McElfresh <a0019874@airmail.net>]

Keith:

It is interesting how much the Russians are now putting into print on
the MiGs and Korea. I've the following four publications and there are
probably a lot more:

"Air War In Korea (1950-1953)", V.V. Gageen, 1997
"Air War In Korea -2 (American Viewpoint)", 1997
"Unknown War", B.S. Abakumov, 1997
"The Soviet Pilots Protection Of The Skies of China and North Korea",
V.P. Naboka, 1999 (already referenced on this website)

The photos of them in the first reference remind me a lot of men from my
old neighborhood near the steel mills in South Chicago.

Regards,

Don

geminiad@whidbey.com wrote:

> Don,
>
> No sweat, it just looiked like the devil in the details....
> having read naval messages for years, sometimes
> those typo were in them,
>
> and, given WIG's became a unique Soviet technology
> development, thought it interesting the term might
> have snuck into a naval message - inadvertantly - a
> couple decades before the Soviets began earnest
> tech R&D into the platform.
>
> Thanks for posting the message.
> Cheers,
>
> Keith