RE: July 4 1952

["Diego Zampini" <dzampini@hotmail.com>]

Hi, Cookie.

>Those pilots were from the 494th and 821st IAP
>of the 190th IAD, arguably the worst Soviet
>air division sent to Korea.

Thanks for the data. That explaned a lot. Tomas Polak told me that the 256th 
IAP of the 190th IAD had only one pilot who claimed to became an ace: Major 
Boris N. Zabelin -its commander- who scored 8 kills, half of the score of 
the whole regiment! I guess there were only 2 or 3 aces in the whole 
division.
Adittionally, that also explained why the only Soviet Sabre killers of the 
day were MiG-15 pilots of the 518th IAP of the 216th IAD (Mikhail Mihin shot 
down Austin Beetle and Sr.Lt. Krutsckykh shot down Clifford Holley).

>As a point of fact, they were the direct cause
>of MG Ivan Kozhedub not getting a 4th HSU medal
>as the senior staff in Moscow felt their
>poor training was his fault.

Does it mean that the 324th IAD was the responsible for the training of the 
190th IAD? Did the 303rd IAD do the same with the 97th IAD or some other 
newcomer division?
Thank you again.
Diego Zampini.

PS: please check if accidentally you put a blockade to my e-mail address 
which did not allow me to receive mails from you. Now I replied your message 
only because Dan Fahey used it to keep on arguing about the duel Phanter vs 
MiG.

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