Dan, >>At 12:21 PM 6/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
(snip)Both NK and SK had a few pilots/instructors, veterans of WWII, most of pilots having served in China and a few (NK) with Soviet forces. As I understand it, overall NK was in better shape pilot-wise than SK.
NK airforces had left over Japanese planes and may have had trained Flight
Instructors remaining from WW2. There was an airwar of sorts between NK and SK before we got both our feet in the war.<<
We did but these were not delivered until months after the war began. On 25 Jun 1950 all SK had were a few liaison (L-4) aircraft flying but had a number (don't remember how many) of pilots in training in the U.S. learning to fly the F-51.>>I believe we gave the SK about 20 P51s.<<
Hadn't heard this previously but the U.S. bomber cabal wanted no part of close air support so got rid of as many air craft that could fill this role as possible so it wouldn't surprise me.>>What I do not understand was that the US ordered the destruction of 100 P47s that were already in Korea before the conflict began?<<