"Our pilot Lee Xi Tsyn knocked you down"

The publishing house "AST" published the book of Vasily Avchenko "Red Sky. Untilmented stories about the earth, fire and man flying. ” The author reveals the little -known page of Soviet history - the participation of the USSR in the Korean War of 1950–1953. This is a documentary novel about an unknown war, which still affects world history and politics.

With the kind permission of the publisher, we publish the chapter “Chinese pilot Lee Xi Tsyn”.

At first, the 64th corps was part of the operational group of the Soviet Air Force in China under the command of the chief military adviser, Colonel General Stepan Krasovsky, Hero of the Soviet Union, who commanded the air armies on the Great Patriotic War. At the end of 1951, the corps was included in the united air army of the Chinese General Liu Zheny, the air units of the Korean People’s Army were also included.

The United Air Army was created in the fall of 1950, took off on duty at the front-line airfields of Andun and Myagou in the summer of 1951. At the commander of the army, Liu Jelen was adviser, General Dmitry Galunov, a pilot, who accepted combat baptism in the sky of Spain. The North Korean Air Force was commanded by General Van Len, his adviser was Colonel Alexander Petrachev. Chinese and Korean pilots were retraining for MiGs, preparing for battles. General Krasovsky recalled:

“Soon after arriving in China, I was instructed to inform Mao Zedong that the Soviet government decided to transfer several hundred mi-15 aircraft to the Chinese People’s Republic for free ... It would be appropriate to recall that“ miGs ”were presented to the PRC in 1951, when we only began to re-equipment of our fighter units to reactive equipment. In addition to combat aircraft, a lot of diverse aviation property came to China ... We also rendered great assistance in the training of aviation personnel ... We launched a network of courses and schools. ”

Over time, the number of pilots of the United Air Army at the advanced airfields of Andun, Miaogou, Dope and Dagushan exceeded the number of “mits” of the 64th corps.

The Chinese and Koreans were inferior to Soviet pilots. Boris Abakumov: "They had the losses compared to the Americans, one to one ..."

He quotes the following case:

“Once our advisers saved their lives ... a Chinese young pilot who unsuccessfully landed on the MiG-15 and broke his chassis. The Chinese sentenced him to the death penalty, apparently, a person’s life is a trifle for them. They motivated this decision by the fact that for these planes they pay a lot of money, and he breaks it. Our advisers proved that training the pilot is much more difficult than making the plane ... The pilot survived. "

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