RE: Unkown Ace and Napalm

["Daniel T. Fahey" <DanFahey@DanSources.com>]

Hi Diego:
I did some research on the French in Indochina from 1945 to 1950.
Very interesting set of politics going on which indirectly the politics of
Korea.

In Google I looked up COIN Aircraft a came up with a site on the French.
After WW2 they were looking for anything to take back IndoChina and Algeria.

In Indochina they used the Japanese Oscar and Jakes. They wre the only
aircraft
available.  They wore those out started getting US made WW2 Navy aircraft
F8F, F6F, Corsairs, F47s' Navy B24's including new AU1 and mod 7, A26
Invaders.

The French sent their own plane the S111A light close support aircraft..
Sort of looks like low wing a German Stork.

Remember the discussion of the T6 Texans the French used them a lot.
The T6G's were set up to carry rockets and twin 7.5mm machine gun pods on
each wing

They even used the T28S with added twin 50cal machine gun pods and rockets.
The French got the A models and installed 1425hp B17G stockpiled engines in
them.

Received a batch of AD4 Skyraiders. They lasted the longest. Parts were
available.
Got premission to bring in US LendLease P63 Kingcobras from France.
They stated they were very effective.

Later MS1500 Eperview.. own French light support aircraft.
SE117 Voltigeur a twin engine attack aircraft.
And various helicopters....

Thier biggest problem was too few and
long range to get to the battlefields.

Eisenhower considered using unmarked B29 to drop Nukes.
But could not figure how to hide that fact US made planes dropped a Nuke on
DienBenPu

The French also used the M8, Stuart and Chaffee tanks..

Hope this helps...

Dan Fahey (the other Dan)


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
[mailto:owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu]On Behalf Of Diego Zampini
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:36 PM
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
Cc: Danz.Blasser@osd.mil
Subject: RE: Unkown Ace and Napalm


Hi, Dan:
Thank you very much for the info about Pomaz. :-)
Regarding his claims, certainly there is a good chance that the F-86 of
George Wendling on April 13 1952 and one of the F-84s on May 17 had been
actually victims of Pomaz (by the way, I think that his possible victim in
that last date could be the F-84D of James Smith). But I guess that Walker
Mahurin could have been shot down by Major A.R.Proudnikov of 821st IAP (the
´Red Devils…´ book mention such theory, and also mention the shootdown
of Pomaz’s MiG but do not credit him any Sabre kill that day, but of
course if you had had direct access to the Soviet records, you should have
more accurate info) and the F-86 of Patrick Ellis could be also victim of
Arkadii S. Boitsov of 16th IAP, who knows?

>How many of these claims are factual are anybody's guess.
>On any of these days, you will find many more claims than
>losses.  Of interest, Soviet pilots were awarded 1,500 rubles
>for each shot down aircraft.

That is true. But it happened both sides: on May 13 the MiG of Pomaz was the
only Soviet loss, but there were 5 Sabre pilots claiming for one MiG kill
each. And without need of money award.
Thank you very much again, :-)
Regards.
Diego

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