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

Joe:
Until now I could not match any of the remaining 14 serial numbers with 
serial reported by the Soviets in wreckages of downed planes. But there is 
possible explanation (and I am quite sure that it will bw polemic one): if 
you had read the ´1059 document´ of Cookie, you will notice that in many 
occasions the Soviets reported downed American pilots taken prisoner, and 
that in dates not officially mentioned in USAF records. For example:
December 21 1950: the MiG-15 pilot Ivan Yurkevich (29 GIAP, 50 IAD) claimed 
a Sabre kill over Bihen that day, and ´1059 document´ remarked textually 
´Crashed - POW´.
April 6 1951: ´1059 document´ mention a claim of Sabre kill made the 196 
IAP. That matchs with the info I got the Polish site mentioning that Boris 
S. Abakumov shot down the F-86 of a ´Major Crown´ who was taken POW. The 
source of such assertion is the book "Korea 1950-53" by Cezary Piotrowski & 
Piotr Taras, published by AJ-Press in Kampanie Lotnicze (air Campaigns) 
series as No. 3. Of course, the fact of appearing in a book do not become it 
true instantly, but perhaps it should deserve a deeper research.
May 20 1951: during the battle that F-86 Sabre pilot James Jabara claimed to 
become ace with 2 MiG kills (he actually shot down Captain Nazarkin and 
damaged the second MiG) and was shot-up by V.N.Alfeyev, Col. Yevgeni 
Pepelyayev claimed his first kill out of 19, a Sabre which pilot apparently 
became POW, as Cookie remarked with the comment ´POW - Chinese´, assertion 
confirmed by the article ´3 out of 1000´ written by Krylov/Tepsurkayev:

´The fact that at least one when down was corroborated by the North Korean 
police: "..Seven kilometers southeast of the village of Dekon in the region 
of Teysyu (now Chongju -- Authors), an American fighter aircraft was shot 
down, burning in the air and when it landed. Its pilot bailed out by 
parachute - he was taken to a hospital by Chinese Volunteers and his 
documents were taken from him." (20) Later, the division received a list of 
what was taken from the captured pilot by the Chinese Volunteers. He only 
gave them what was required by duty - he gave them an inarticulate name, and 
he advised them he flew an aircraft with an undesirable name, and that there 
were a thousand more of these machines sitting back at his base.´

November 29 1951: a MiG-15 pilot of 17 IAP, 303 IAD claimed a Sabre kill 
over Eiju, and ´1059 document´ remarked textually ´Crashed between Henwon 
and Dijiunsen – POW Koreans´, etc.
Perhaps those unidentified 14 F-86s were the ones used by those captured 
pilots. Anybody can provide more info about this unreported POWs?
Diego.

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