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Re: North Korean Version of the War



Mark,

There seems to be a lot of it in the "Red Devils" book. (For those not
familiar with this, in 1998 a Russian writer, Igor' Seidov, published a
history of the war in cooperation with Asklo'd German, a pilot and retired
Soviet Air Forces Colonel, titled "Red Devils on the 38th Parallel". This
book was just reprinted and given wider distribution via East View
Publications - no plug intended.)

I just got done making a first "pass" through the book to clean up my data
bases on the Soviets in Korea, and noted a lot of material on the "United Air
Forces" (combined PLAAF and Korean Peoples Armed Forces Air Corps) which is
quite interesting. Most of it would appear to be sheer fantasy, such as the
claims of the "1st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment" whose brave Yak-9 pilots
swept the skies of Mustangs and Shooting Stars in the fall of 1950...

Will try and see what items of use are in there. There is at least one report
of dubious honesty which lists how many missions KPAFAC MiG pilots flew and
what damage they claim to have done.

Cookie Sewell
AMPS