Air War in Korea

Anyone can supply information about which(and how many) propeller-driven aircraft were used during the Korean War?

 

Uh, lots!

From memory, a rough list is:

UN:

Fighters / fighter-bombers:
F4U Corsair
P-51 Mustang
'Twin Mustang'
Sea Fury

Bombers:
A-26 Invader
B-29 Superfortress

N.Korea et al:

Yak 9
LaGG 7


But I know there were more. Simon? Ome_Joop?

 

I was aware of many of the UN aircraft. I think there were also Tempests. Any chance there were Spitfires? Also, as far N. Korea and the rest is concerned i know only of Yak-9s... Google gave nothing intresting so far...

 

LaGG-7 didn't exist
They were La-9 and La-11 prop diriven figters

N.Korea Bombers:
Yak-18 and Po-2 nuesence bombers
Il-10 attack bomber
Tu-2 bomber

 

Sorry, my bad.

 

There were also Fireflies and Sea Furies IIRC and Tigercats.

 

F-51 Mustang by the time of the Korean War, and the Twin Mustang was the F-82. The Twin Mustang also bore the brunt of the action in the first few weeks of the war. They flew a large number of ground attack missions and even downed a few North Korean fighters.

 

And don't forget the Skyraider.

 

F-8 Bearcats too.

 

Good old Texan also proved to be good strafer.

 

Did they use the Texan as a strafer in Korea? I thought they only the Aussies used it like that during WWII.

 

The Bearcat was in active service until 1953 but I thought they never saw any combat with the US Navy?

 

The Grumman AF Guardian was used in the Korean War, so was the Avenger. The Supermarine Sea Otter was used on board Royal Navy ships deployed to Korea.

 

Yes. It used unguided rockets and gunpods.

 

The Bearcats saw limited use in the early part of the war.

 

iirc , t6 texans were used as fac ac and used white smoke rockets to mark targets for fast movers

 

Why were they using trainers in combat. Doesn't really make sense to use a Harvard (Texan) like that.....

 

I think the North Korean air force only had Texans in very the beginning of the war and used them as well for ground attack purposes. Can anyone verify this?

 

No texans were only used by US.

North Korean AF had quite a few types of planes on its rooster at the beggining.
Fighters:
Yak-9
La-7
La-9
La-11
Bombers:
Tu-2
Il-10
Yak-18 (basicly trainer but used to great effect as nuasance bomber)
Po-2 (U-2) Nuasance bomber

Those are the types i remember from top of my head. For detail lists i can only say Google is your friend

 

Did you mean South Korean AF? If so, I think you're right.