Re: North Korean OOB Question

["Joseph S. Bermudez Jr." <jbermudez@qwest.net>]

Title: Re: North Korean OOB Question

Joe,

> A KPA and/or KPAFAC order of battle question. Reports of a downed Yak whose 
> pilot's body was recovered, spring of 1951, said his id card gave his unit as 
> "813 Nan King Army Corps" or "813 NKA Corps" in two reports that differ in 
> other respects also, one or both are probably garbled...

I don’t currently have access to all my KPA OOB files, however, the only 
813 that I can find relates to the APO (Army Post Office) number for 
the 1st Anti-Invasion Engineer Battalion based in the Pyongyang area in 
1950.

> From what I know concerning KPA OOB, it would seem that the 813 you are 
> referring appears to be correct for an Air Force unit. The only other KPAF 
> unit numbers in the 800 series I can recall, however, are the,

845th Air Regiment
877th Air Force Unit

Both of these, however, date to 1950.

Regards,
Joe