Many of these same pilots wound up in the PLAAF and became Sabre fodder in Korea.
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Hey, I never knew Charlie Sheen was a P39 pilot!
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Or is it a desperate way of resolving the COG problem?
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Bell Aircraft Photograph RP-63 43-11131 | eBay
seller text: This is an 8 x 10 inch photograph published by Bell Air Craft company, showing a group of 13 Army Air Force officer next to a Bell RP-63 43-111131. The RP-63 was a target aircraft called the "Pinball". It was used as target tug aircraft and painted a red color. I think these officers were ferry pilots picking up new aircraft at the factory, notice Flight Officer left side front row.
seller text: This is an 8 x 10 inch photograph published by Bell Air Craft company, showing a group of 13 Army Air Force officer next to a Bell RP-63 43-111131. The RP-63 was a target aircraft called the "Pinball". It was used as target tug aircraft and painted a red color. I think these officers were ferry pilots picking up new aircraft at the factory, notice Flight Officer left side front row.
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Not many, very few. Most of these pilots went to Formosa (Taiwan) with Chinese Nationalist AF fight with PLAAF during Taiwan Strait Crisis.
Maybe, according to the official version. My aunt and uncle, who worked for the US Foreign Service in Taipei 1951-54 said that large numbers of American WWII trained Nationalist pilots defected to the PLAAF before and during the evacuation from the mainland, with their aircraft, fed up with Kuomintang corruption and unwilling to leave their families behind.
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"large numbers of American WWII trained Nationalist pilots defected to the PLAAF" ------- That's NOT true. Not THAT many.
Please see:
Military Aircraft Defections to China Since 1950
That info is all post-revolution. The mainland revolution and defeat of the Kuomintang happened in 1948-49, and most of the defections happened during that time period, delivering airworthy P51s, B26s, C46s and C47s to the PLAAF.
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Compare to there are 8 + 1/2 group (21 squadron) of total 936 aircraft of RoCAF, those defeat pilots are really NOT that much.
Total defeat from RoCAF to PLAAF between 1945-1989:
國共/兩岸空軍人員自發性交流--國府篇(1945-1989) @ gkjlai的部落格 :: 痞客邦 ::
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