German pilots in Korea War?

[Franek Grabowski]

I recall reading memoirs of one of Soviet top-leading aces of the conflict (Pepelayev?), and who mentioned that they had lost a bit sense following WWII. He continued to follow his WWII experience, and often disobeyed orders, but some did not, and did fly according to the book. Perhaps this was the reason of belief there were some Germans around. Personally, I doubt there were any foreigners in NK aviation, as it would turn out by now. There were some rumours of Poles being send there (and later to Vietnam), but they were not confirmed in any way, and considering rather alarming level of training and doubtful loyalty it would make no sense anyway. There is a fact, however that soldiers here were worried that they will go to Korea.
There were Poles on the other side though, I have talked to few Polish RAF pilots, who ferried aircraft for UN contingent, and one of them had some problems, because he was still stateless. I also know of a one man, who was underground soldier, and after escape to the west he was drafted to USMC for citizenship and flew combat missions with them. I remember his name, but I was unable neither to track him nor TV programme about him.
In ground forces, there was at least one Pole, who served with Oz, Jerzy Zwolański, a Market-Garden decorated veteran.

[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.

[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.