Re: Aircraft Used in Korea

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

According to my WW2 data. The P63s were delivered very late in WW2.
About the time they were deployed the ETO the war was over  Some were moved
to
Eastern Siberia and used them against the Japanese.  Records indicate there
was only
one recored Kill and that was against a Japanese Ki21 Bomber.

I believe they were the first new fighters to arrive. Probably because the
P63 had greater
range then any of the Russian Fighter planes. I believe some were shipped by
rail.
Details are sketchy.

Cookie stated the Korean P63 were essentially stored away or scraped.
I guess after the war there was no way to get fresh parts. Seems the
Russians scrapped
all US aircraft save the DC3/C47 and their version of the B29 were scraped.

The French were very happy with the P63 and kept them.  They actually needed
permission
from the US to use them in Vietman and 50 were sent.  Must have been a lend
lease item?





----- Original Message ----- 
From: <AMPSOne@aol.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Aircraft Used in Korea


> Joe,
>
> Postwar Yaks are hard to deal with -- even official Russian sites call the
> postwar all metal job either Yak-9U or Yak-9T, your choice. U makes better
sense
> and was one used in Korea. According to what Soviet records I have seen,
no
> other Yaks from WWII were sent to Korea - 3s, 7s, or 9s. All of the wooden
ones
> seem to have gone for scrap as soon as the GPW was over. USAF is one who
> apparently called it the P model as they found a cannon in the engine
block on
> their captured examples and the one they tested.
>
> Yak-9U listed as carrying two UBS and one ShVAK, so that matches up pretty
> well. Top speed listed as 666 kph (363 kts) at 5,000 meters.
>
> Chinese were only noted by both their sources and Soviet ones with La-9,
> La-11, MiG-9 (nearly the entire production run), and MiG-15 fighters. No
Yaks
> other than Yak-17UTI for conversion purposes. I have no record of Il-10 in
PLAAF
> service; only the Tu-2 which the Koreans did not get.
>
> Apparently the storage in the eastern USSR was only P-63s as they were
listed
> as based there in a prewar US intelligence report and were found there
when
> 49 FBG shot them up. Most of the Airacobras were also scrapped by then.
(Did
> they at least preserve Podkryshkin's?)
>
> Cookie Sewell
> AMPS
>