Korean air war statistics from sources of USA and USSR

Data from:
	USA	USSR
Overall losses of American planes	2837
Combat losses of American planes		1097+271 *
Combat losses of F86 Sabres	103 ? LoL!	651+181 *
Combat losses of B29 Super Fortress	17	69
Combat losses of F84 Thunder Jet	18	186+27 *
Combat losses of F80 Shooting Star	15	117+30 *
Combat losses of F51 Mustang	12	28+12 *
Combat losses of Meteor G.8	5	28+7 *
Rescued US pilots (it’s interesting to compare with the number of lost planes)	1000++
Kills by B29	34	0
Kills by Sabres	810
Losses of MiGs by Sabres	792
Losses of MiGs	885	335+231 *
Combat losses of other Communist planes	69
Not-combat losses of Communist planes	1800	~10+? *

* The 1st number is for the Soviets, the 2nd number is for United Air Army of China and Korea

Some Air Combats

The world 1st jet-vs-jet kill. On November 1st, 1950 was the encounter of MiG-15 and F80 flights. The Soviet pilot Khominyh shot down one of the Shooting Stars. The Americans hide this loss, and did so in future. Many shot down planes were writen-off as “not-combat losses”.

F80 shot down

12th April 1951. 48 escorted B29 tried to attack a bridge over Yalutsyan river. 36 MiG-15 shot down 9 bombers. The Americans said 3 lost and 7 damaged SuperFortresses, and claimed 9 MiGs from 64..72 attackers, plus 6 probablies and 4 damaged. In fact, all Soviet fighters returned safety.

12th September 1951. 80 MiG-15 attaked about 150 F80, which strafed ground targets between Anchzu and Phenian. 15 Shooting Stars were shot down, 3 MiGs were damaged.

“The Black Tuesday”. 30th October 1951. 21 B29 escorted by about 200 F86 and F84, tried to attack Namsi airfield. They were intercepted by 44 MiGs, which shot down 12 B29 and 4 F84. 1 MiG-15 was shot down by Sabres. The rest of SuperFortresses were damaged, but managed to escape. According the American sources, were lost 8 bombers.

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