Author Topic: Korean arena?  (Read 975 times)

Offline Gtoraii

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Korean arena?
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2001, 10:02:00 AM »
As far as I know, no missiles where used in Korea. Well maybe the very first sidewinders.. Not in any great numbers.

I think a Korean War arena would be interesting because you could fly planes that just missed WW2.

Offline Dinger

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Korean arena?
« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2001, 03:23:00 PM »
Uh, no S2A or A2A Missiles in Korea.
Un coalition had forces from many countries there, and something like 13 countries sent combat troops.  As for aircraft, IIRC it goes something like this:
UK: Fleet Air Arm provided service with Spits, Sea Furies, Fairy Fireflies(?or something like that)
Australia: Sent a squadron of ?F51 pilots (8th RAAF? I'm just doing this from memory), who later moved to Meteor Mk. VIIIs.
South Africa, the 2nd SAAF (Cheetahs) flew F51s alongside the US 18 F/Bs (again, I think), and graduated with them to F86s.
and the ROKAF, of course.
I think some other forces flew transports in and out.