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Cookie:
I have read that they were never officially
encountered in the Korean War.
Too bad we dumped so many pieces of war material in
the Ocean.
Hope the Fish do well..considering the massive Fish
Kills in the Pacific.
BUT did not know the Russians discarded the planes.
I can understand why
as there was no local manufacturing for maintenance
support.
I am trying to connect the fact of the US worry of
the P63 and supposed sightings
and the attack we performed on the Russina storage
facility you mentioned in your earlier post.
Was it a coinsidence? Just lucky, Opps sorry we did
not know!!??
To me it seems like it was planned.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Aircraft Used in Korea
Dan,
The P-63 was NEVER encountered in Korea. They were stored across the
border in Siberia and were not even functional. The Soviets stored them once
they saw all the US did with returned Lend Lease was take it out to the 12
mile limit and dump all items off the ships, never to return to the US.
P-63 was not in the same league with the other aircraft as itwas a
multi-role aircraft whereas Soviet ones were single-purpose function types.
La-9 was optimized as low-level (6000 meters and below) short range fighter
and La-11 was high-altitude (above 6000 meters) long-range fighter. Yak-9T
would be closer, as all wooden Yaks went for scrap very quickly after the end
of the war. The La-9 and La-11 survived as they were all-metal (same with the
Yak).
Cookie Sewell
AMPS
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