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Who Took My MiGs? One of the most successful propaganda operations of the Korean War. 24 A copy of the nearby leaflet offering $50,000 for a MIG-15 was one of the most successful propaganda operations of the Korean War. My RB29A crew dropped some of the leaflets. As a result of the program, two MiGs were flown to South Korea, and $100,000 was paid to the pilots. Throughout the Korean War, American intelligence on the capabilities of the MiG-15 was limited largely to Sabre pilots’ fleeting impressions of the Russian-built aircraft when they encountered it in combat. These impressions were reinforced by a description of a MiG-15 flown to Denmark in March of 1953 by a Polish defector, and by the examination of a wrecked MiG salvaged from 17 feet of water off the North Korean coast in July of 1951. In fact, between 1949 and 1956, four Polish MiGs and one Il- 2M3 were flown by defectors from communist Poland to Denmark and Sweden. One of the most significant occurred on 5 March 1953, when a MiG landed at Ronne Airfield at Bornholm Island, Denmark! It was flown there from Slupsk Polish Air Force Base by a Polish defector, Lt. Franciszek Jarecki. Western air specialists examined the aircraft, which was returned to Poland several days later by ship. Jarecki, however, went to the USA and provided a great deal of valuable information about modern Soviet aircraft and air tactics. Later that year, on September 21, 1953, Lt. No Kum-Suk, of the Korean People’s Armed Forces Air Corps, defected to the south along with his MiG-15bis. This provided the USAF with its first flyable example of a MiG-15, and US intelligence with its initial chance to compare its initial impressions with actual flight test data. The MiG was dismantled and flown to Okinawa aboard a C- 124 Globemaster, where it was reassembled and flown by a crew of experienced test pilots, including Maj. Gen. Albert B. Boyd, Major Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, and Capt H. E. Collins. The plane was painted with USAF markings, and assigned the fictitious serial number “616,” the number Capt. Collins had used on a plane he had once flown. The plane was flown later to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. It is currently on display at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Museum, painted in its original North Korean markings. All in all, the propaganda program worked out well—and not only monetarily. As a result of the dropped leaflets, the Red Air Force, under the control of the USSR worldwide, was kept on the ground for six days. Stanley Grogan 2585 Moraga Drive Pinole, CA 94564 A propaganda leaflet featuring the photo of the polish pilot Janecki, who defected with a MIG in Eastern Europe A “Safe Conduct” pass signed by Mark Clark, Commander of U.S. Forces, Korea July - August A 2006 The Graybeards
1st Sgt. Saldana reads The Graybeards at Camp Red Cloud The KWVA recruiting committee’s efforts have spread far and wide—including to South Korea. Many of the troops at Camp Red Cloud, in Ujunibou, just north of Seoul, but south of Camp Casey, have been seen reading The Graybeards there. The camp even has a KWVA Membership Committee Liaison. The Graybeards Reaches Camp Red Cloud KWVA Membership Committee Korea Liaison Capt. Dale Woodhouse explains KWVA membership to Capt. Wolsey Soldiers put up KWVA posters at Camp Red Cloud 2nd Lt. Cho reads The Graybeards 1st Sgt Saldana shares The Graybeards with Sgt. Fraser 25 The Graybeards July - August A 2006
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