Unique movement conducted during Korean War

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

This article from the nK web site claims that they
shot down 1,200 planes during 1952.

Mike Davino

Unique movement conducted during Korean War
    Pyongyang, July 3 (KCNA) -- The aircraft-hunting
team movement was vigorously conducted by soldiers of
the Korean People's Army during the Fatherland
Liberation War (1950-1953). President Kim Il Sung
initiated this unique movement basing himself on a
profound analysis of the experience gained in
anti-aircraft battles in the period of the
anti-japanese armed struggle and in modern wars. 
    In December, Juche 39 (1950) he issued the order
of the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army
"on organizing aircraft-hunting teams". 
    In hearty response to his order, combatants of the
KPA shot down enemy planes with rifles, light and
heavy machine guns, and anti-tank guns wherever they
went. 
    They manufactured revolving frames and installed
on them several light machine guns and anti-tank guns
to fire them simultaneously, thus increasing the fire
power of small arms in hunting aircraft and containing
low-altitude flights of enemy planes. 
    The movement resulted in downing more than 1,200
enemy planes in the year of 1952 alone. 
    Over 70 members of the aircraft-hunting teams
became heroes of the DPRK in the same year. 
    Machine gunner Kim Ki U shot down 11 enemy planes
in a little over a month to emerge twice hero of the
republic. 
    Thousands of enemy planes were shot down by the
members of the teams in the entire period of the war. 

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