Re: Soviet Aircraft Types in Korea

[<AMPSOne@aol.com>]

Dan,

To the best of my knowledge only the ROC got F-47s, as the USAF wanted them 
out of the inventory ASAP. (A quick reading of losses in Korea show at least 
24 F-51D aircraft lost due to coolant system damage which probably would not 
have happened if they had been flying F-47s, but that's another point for 
discussion.)

MiG-17 is arguably the best of the non-supersonic MiGs. Later F-86s (the H 
being a gunfighter and the D a rocketeer) were quite different from the 
earlier Es and Fs. ROC used Ds and Hs with early model Sidewinders, which 
were one reason they did well against PLAAF. In Korea, different story and 
different results. I have not followed up many of the tales of postwar combat 
but I do know a number of USAF pilots scored kills with the F-86H against 
them. 

Cookie Sewell
AMPS