Re: Book review: Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union and the Air War in Korea

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

That is nuts...
Did not know about the Bomber cabal as you call them.

>From Cookies list of KW shootdown we lost a lost of B26's.

Also despite the cry that the Mustang was not a good close air support AC
it seems we lost a whole lot of AD's, F4U, F7F as well.

>From your emails I get the feeling our close air support was good but not
great.
Though NK did not have anything close to what we had.

Between the wars there must have been a TON political fighting, asset
stripping,
consolidating, arbitrage.  New age thinking such as a the Department of
Defense,
new US Air Force, keeping the Marines, reassigning of the Coast Guard, a
CIA.

Bet there were a few bitter, crusted and broken cookies (no pun intended
Cookie).

DF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Book review: Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union
and the Air War in Korea


> Dan,
>
>  >>At 12:21 PM 6/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >(snip)
> >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.<<
>
> 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.
>
> > >>I believe we gave the SK about 20 P51s.<<
>
> 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.
>
> > >>What I do not understand was that the US ordered the destruction
> >of 100 P47s that were already in Korea before the conflict began?<<
>
> 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.
>
> Ed
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Life Member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> Author:  DARKMOON:  Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
>