Quote:It's facts like this that young Americans of my era were never taught, I mean, that was recent history when I was a kid, we only knew that our Sabres were shooting the heck out of Migs at the time.
I know there were capable American prop planes serving in Korea, anyone know if there was any dogfighting with LA9's and the US props?
Search on internet gives amongs others the following combat scenarios:
USAF F-86 vs La-9
UN and USAF P-51 vs La-9
Often they were used for bomber escort duty
La-11 (basically the same, bigger fuel tanks) were there too, and they scored at least one Neptune (They were used in Mao airforce in 1950 too)
Both types (La-9 and La-11) were used by North Korea, China (volunteer force) and Russian (with korean markings) in the Korea conflict.
The Duxford one, while having russian paint, actually is a genuine Korea veteran, operated by the chinese volunteer group. They had to change the PLAAF markings to Soviet ones because of regulations.
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