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Dan,
I have no idea what the DPRK and ROK had before they had their respective backers provide them with aircraft. Soviets provided the DPRK with 239 aircraft to start (for a strength of only about 60 trained pilots, but they trained others during the war).
The ROK only had about 22 to start -- 8 x L-4, 4 x L-5, and 10 x T-6 -- but was fed replacements over the course of the war. After June 1950 they were provided with an additional 198 (133 X F-51D, 20 x L-4, 10 x L-5, 7 x L-16, 1 x L-17 and 6 x L-19, 1 x C-47 and 14 x T-6). They ended the war with 117 survivors. 69 aircraft were lost in combat with no air-to-air kills claimed; some losses may have been air-to-air but the records aren't too clear unless the aircraft had a US pilot or serial, at which point they are found in KORWALD.
Cookie Sewell
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