2 JoeB about KW

[JoeB]

Originally Posted by FPSOlkor

To be honest, i doubt it. To be mistaken this lettering has to be in green colour at first place, which is not likely - simply for better view irritating colors were used, at least in VVS... But - haven't been there, haven't seen it. And 11 claims by USAF against 2 losses is very serious overclaim level

I don't doubt combat with Chinese or North Korean units that day. We can't generally judge US credits v Soviet-only losses day by day at any time after September 1951. And OTOH I've concluded that Russian authors like Seidov are just guessing when they say particular US victory credits which appear as overclaims v the Soviets only *were* in fact v Chinese or North Koreans. We just don't know in most specific cases, yet. Specific combat accounts I've counted up from Chinese published sources amount to around 1/2 their total official claims in the war, but a much smaller % of their total official combat losses. Obviously the selection of specific accounts to publish over the years has emphasized the positive from the PLAAF point of view. But for May 1953, it's extremely likely F-86's engaged Chinese or NK a/c in any day of large scale combat, just frustratingly that the specific info from PLAAF/KPAAF isn't available yet, AFAIK. And, the worse a day May 18 might have been for the PLAAF, the less likely their account of it would have surfaced.

Joe