Re: Aircraft Used in Korea

[Joe Brennan <jbren1@optonline.net>]

> What about the A-1 Skyraider? Or the earliest version?

In the Pre Sep 1962 designation system the Skyraider was AD rather than A-1.
As on Cookie's list the AD-2 to -4 models (in numerous
subversions, -3N's -2Q's and -4Q's being minor additions to the list btw)
served in Korea whereas in SEA the USAF operated A1-E's and H's (AD-5 and -6
respecitvely) and the USN operated A1-H's and J's (AD-7's) among attack a/c
and EA-1E (AD-5W) and EA-1F (AD-5Q)  AEW and ECM a/c. That's to say I don't
think any individual plane served in both wars.

In Korea the std carrier wing had one sdn of AD's (VA or in at least one
case VF but really attack) and some special purpose detachments (night
attack, AEW, ECM). Two USMC land based attack sdn had them (VMA-121
plus -251 right at the end) and a composite sdn VMC-1 had special purpose
versions and scored the AD's only aerial kill of the KW, by an AD-4NL
against a Po-2 night intruder June 16 1953, to add to the 2 MiG-17's claimed
by USN A1's in SEA.

Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Yared" <mikeyared@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Aircraft Used in Korea


> http://www.skyraider.org
> My late uncle, Col. Lee Volet, (USAF, Ret.) was with
> the 602nd SOS of the 56th SOW during the Vietnam War.
> I'm still trying to find out with which unit he was
> during the Korean War.
>
> Mike YAred
>
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