German pilots in Korea War?

[NickM]

Originally Posted by Csaba B. Stenge

There are many rumours about Eastern European pilots on the Commuinst side in Korea, but it didn't happen. However, it is not a pure fabrication. I have a very interesting document in which an ex WWII Hungarian pilot volunteered to Korea to fight against the "imperialists". But his offer was turned down. I guess, the Communist side missed an interesting propaganda victory and opportunity to disallow such requests.

How every interesante!

Decades ago, when the ONLY reading material I could find on the Korean Air War was Lou Drendel, his little tomes mentioned that US pilots were seeing MiG15s with all sorts of crazy markings and insignias--supposedly Polish or Czech and who knows what else. I guess Drendell was trying to imply that Eastern Bloc pilots or whole units were being assigned to the Yalu front==thought it might simply have been 'a mistake in observation'.

[Franek Grabowski]

For sure there were no Czech nor Poles in Korea as fighter pilots on the Red side. In regard of camouflage and markings, they were quite uniform, though changed in time. The only unusual marking that I have ever seen was a large slogan in Chinese.