In 1953 North Korea Used 1920-Style Planes to Fight America

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Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: In 1953, North Korea Used 1920-Style Planes to Fight America. They Did a Lot of Damage.

On the night of June 16, 1953, the Associated Press reported on “a boiling mass of flame, mushrooming like an atomic bomb, shoots skyward from a burning fuel dump, set afire at the South Korean port city of Inchon.” The fire “lighted the sky for more than 20 miles” and took three days to put out, having consumed 5.5 million gallons of fuel.

The perpetrators of this devastating attack? A flight of four pokey North Korean two-seat trainers flying blindly through the night.

The Marines, Navy and Air Force fielded their most advanced radar-equipped jet fighters to intercept these low-tech night raiders—but soon also had to contend with deadly MiG-15 jet fighters stalking the night skies over Korea.

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WNU Editor: You go to war with what you have .... and the North Koreans used what they had in 1953.