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Speaking of Cape Buffalo, I saw the most incredible video I have ever seen on CNN a while ago. It featured a herd of Cape Buffalo(which of course the tv guy called water buffalo) a pride of lionesses, a crocodile and the victim, a young Cape Buffalo. Has anyone else seen it?
It's true and shouldn't be suprising because the only British fighter units in the Korean War were piston carrier sdns and they seldom encountered enemy a/c, just a few occasions right around the time of that victory, July and August 1952, a Sea Fury and 2 Fireflies were lost in other of those encounters. The opponents appear to have been Chinese, who lost a couple of MiG's in that general period hunting UN fighter bombers along the west coast of NK, but I know of no specific account by them of that combat."The only air to air kill by a Brit. pilot in a Brit. aircraft in the Korean War" ?
That takes some believing !
1. Thanks; maybe I know you too under another name somewhere else?1. Hey JoeB, good to see you here
2. That was the day when 825 SQ from HMS Ocean was attacked by MiG's and had one Firefly damaged badly enough that it had to force-land (wheels up) on Paeyang-do. Another 825SQ Firefly from the same flight (D) ditched that day but claimed to have been damaged by ground fire. Are these the two Firefly losses you were referring to?
3. The 18th Air Division's other regiment, the 52nd, was the unit involved in the action on August 9th, 1952.
Thanks,A search of the web found discussion board postings which appears to be copied straight from Chinese PLAAF publications. One revealed that the Aug. 9th, 1952 action involved 8 MiG's. One flight of 4 from the 18th Air Division (AD)/52nd Air Regiment (AR) led by the deputy regimental commander Zhang, Chuan-zhi claimed one kill against "F-Mk8" while covered by another 4 led by the deputy commander of the 3rd AD/7th AR Sun, Jing-Hua.
wildcat do you have pics of the pilots and their mounts possibly ?
Just a quick correction to your Zemke post re: shooting down an ME-262. Zemke and his wingman, Lt. Norman Benoit were flying P-51s, not P-47s7 Ocotber, Kommando Nowotny intercepted B-24's and covering P-47's flown by Hub Zemke and Lt N. Benoit shot down Heinz Russel's Me 262 with Heinz bailing out successfully.
Everyone probably knows about this 361st pilot Urban Drew who shot down 2 Me 262's of Kommando Nowotny. Drew waited until 2 jets took off got in behind and shot down Lt. Gerhard Korbert who was killed in his crash-blew up and Hauptmann Arnold who was able to pop the canopy and bail out injured.
A I./KG 51 pilot bailed out unhurt under the P-47 guns of 78th fg Major R. E. Conner. the Me 262 was in the alnding approach near Osnabrück.
Just a quick correction to your Zemke post re: shooting down an ME-262. Zemke and his wingman, Lt. Norman Benoit were flying P-51s, not P-47s
Sorry Erich I don't. However the book I got the info from has gun camera pics of the Me163 shot down by Haslope, but my scanner is buggered at the mo. I reckon Graeme might have the book, he could possibly scan those pics for you.
- Australian pilot Flt Lt Danny Reid DFC whilst flying Spitfire XIV RM796 with 41 sqn RAF, shot down an Ar234 near Enschede on the 2nd March 1945. Reid with one other Spit was patrolling around Nijmegen at the time.