Korean War Airpower

[John C Cheek <johncheek1@juno.com>]

After the fighting stabilized, the Chinese used a simple tactic to avoid most of the damage from our air power. The hunkered down deep during the day and came out to fight during the black of night. This night fighting in No Mans Land is a feature of my just released novel Stay Safe, Buddy.

John Cheek, Korea 1953

 

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:15:46 EDT <Jwscpd8@aol.com> writes:

In a message dated 6/10/2003 1:29:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time, evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com writes:

Close air support left much to be desired in the first few months of the
war but improved greatly as time went on

During my time in that war, I was glad that any plane with US or Austl. markings would show up and work over the ridge before we had to go up.   We were fortunate that the enemy airforce could not make the trip down to the MLR, as they would have been shot down long before getting half way.  We never had to worry about what was flying over our heads, because it would be "ours".  Thanks you fly boys.

    John Sonley Korea 1951