Re: "Patrol squadrons in the Korean War"

[Joe Brennan <jbren1@optonline.net>]

> Although United Nations forces were successful in
> maintaining air superiority ove most of the Korean
> peninsula, lumbering patrol aircraft had a few
> encounters with enemy aircraft. A VP-42 Mariner was
> damaged on 11 May 1952 by a MiG-15 fighter over the
> Yellow Sea, and on 31 July 1952 a VP-731 PBM was
> seriously damage( by gunfire from a MiG-15, which
> killed twc crewmen and injured two others.

Here's a site that has a bit more on the second incident mentioned. Note it
says location was 80 mi S of Port Arthur (Lushun on today's maps) so way
over on the Chinese side of the Yellow Sea. But I believe Russian forces of
various kinds were based at Port Arthur too. I wonder if Cookie knows any
Russian accounts of those incidents or whether we can assume the attackers
were Chinese, which the contemporary accounts say, but they usually said
that pretty much regardless.

Joe
http://www.vpnavy.com/vp731_mishap.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Yared" <mikeyared@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:38 AM
Subject: "Patrol squadrons in the Korean War"


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