RE: MiG pilots got worse

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

Well then I am correct regarding US Aircraft.. most of our WW2 stuff was
used up and worn out.  The F80 was in Italy but never ventured out against
the Me262. Never got near Japan until after WW2. Mostly because of PITA
maintenance problems with the new engine.  Then tose wee slowly sold off
after new training aircraft was developed.

Much of the remaining stock was sold to other countries and or COIN
manufactures which sold new rebuilt aircraft to foreigen countries. France
used up F47, F63, F6F, F8F, T28, T6, Corsairs. Vought restarted the Corsair
to compete against the AD4 but was not used by the US. The US used a few
Mustangs up to 1978. Piper Enforcer in 1986.. but was scraped. After Korea
the prop stuff was sold off or scraped. All of it designed in WW2.

Save a few prop planes. After Vietnam everything was Jet Powered.  Only
recently new private builders are constructing new WW2 aircraft. F80 looks
like a sleek A10, 6-Me262 are being built, Russia has built several brand
new Yak 3 and Yak 9 with Allison engines, there is a new all composite P51K
with a 1450hp turboprop engine that goes 450mph.  Faster with the 2400hp
model.

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
[mailto:owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu]On Behalf Of Marc James Small
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:32 PM
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
Subject: RE: MiG pilots got worse


At 01:13 PM 3/20/02 -0500, Daniel T. Fahey wrote:
>We  used up the last of our WW2 stock of weapons.

Dan

This is a bit of an overstatement.  Much of our WWII ordnance and gear
lived on to Vietnam including, I believe, the stock of Purple Heart medals,
which lasted even unto the 1980's.

We did fight Korea with equipment which primarily came from WWII or which
had been procured for that War, with only a few later additions such as the
jet fighters -- and, even there, some of these, such as the F-80, had been
built for use against the Germans and Japanese.

Marc

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