Re:

[Donald McElfresh <a0019874@airmail.net>]

Diego:

Wasn't Captain Nazarkin in charge of the high cover for Pepelyaev when his
wingman Larionov was shot down and landed in the mud flats off the mouth of the
Yalu on 9 July 1951?  I seem to remember Pepelyaev blaming Nazarkin for
Larionov's loss.

Don

Diego Zampini wrote:

> 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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