Re: Korea War List of Aces-Gun Camera's

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

Cookie:

From the wreckage, could they not tell if the plane was hit by AA or the Migs cannon?

Did we inspect any of these wrecks?

 

Dan

----- Original Message -----

From: AMPSOne@aol.com

To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu

Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 5:42 PM

Subject: Re: Korea War List of Aces-Gun Camera's

The Soviets claim that their gun cameras were really awful. There was a lag in the camera snapping stills when the trigger was depressed, and it also cut off very quickly so that it rarely confirmed a kill when they did hit something.

 

The method of "two other pilots verified the shootdown" which was number 1 on the Soviet verification means seems to have been the most accepted, followed by recovery of wreckage. Both of them are subject to falibility and are far from conclusive, ergo many AA losses got claimed as air-to-air kills from wreckage.

 

Cookie Sewell

AMPS