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NORTH KOREA

Vietnam War

Vietnamese People's Air Force / Không Quân Nhân Dân Việt Nam
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Comments:
  • North Korea sent more than 200 pilots to fight in the Vietnam War. They were tasked to defend Hanoi and shot down scores of US planes.
  • According to the recollections of general V Abramov, a commander of Soviet specialists in Vietnam, a "North Korean escadrille of the MiGs" took part in the conflict. North Korean sources claim one big success to this unit, when a group of eight "North Korean" MiG-17s attacked a group of F-105s on 25 May 1969 and shot down 12 of them. American sources claim no losses on that day.

MiG-17F
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, Vietnamese People's Air Force.


Sources & Literature
  1. Морозов, Вячеслав – Антаков, Вадим – Котлобовский, Александр В.: Громкие эпизоды тихой войны, Стать о применении Авиация в противостоянии на Корейском полуострове (1953-2004 гг.), Авиация и Время, № 1, 2005.
  2. Han Ho Suk: North Korea's war strategy of massive retaliations against US attacks, Part V, http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1361.html, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3099.htm.
  3. N Korea admits Vietnam war role, BBC News, Saturday, 7 July, 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1427367.stm.
  4. Vietnam War Mig-17 Pics, Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57959.

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