Re: ROKA - add

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

YS,

> >>It bought 10 AT-6s with private funds in 1949.   These were outfitted 
> for combat and, in fact, they flew combat missions in the war.  Whether 
> AT-6s were designed for training or not is a mute point.  The fact of the 
> matter is that these planes were equipped with live armament and hence, 
> they were combat planes.<<

>If you mean "smoke rockets" used as markers for artillery as combat 
>armorment, the T-6 would qualify as a combat aircraft.  However, there was 
>no way to mount machine-guns on the T-6 although pilots and observers may 
>have carried a grease-gun or carbine at some point and shot at people on 
>the ground with the weapon.  T-6's were used by both ROK and US for 
>artillery since the aircraft was slow, but very manouverable, AND could 
>take some heavy hits and keep flying.

Ed

>

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