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Vietnamese People's Air Force / Không Quân Nhân Dân Việt Nam

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North Korea sent more than 200 pilots to fight in the Vietnam War. They were tasked to defend Hanoi and shot down scores of US planes.
According to the recollections of general V Abramov, a commander of Soviet specialists in Vietnam, a "North Korean escadrille of the MiGs" took part in the conflict. North Korean sources claim one big success to this unit, when a group of eight "North Korean" MiG-17s attacked a group of F-105s on 25 May 1969 and shot down 12 of them. American sources claim no losses on that day.

MiG-17F
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, Vietnamese People's Air Force.

Sources & Literature

Морозов, Вячеслав – Антаков, Вадим – Котлобовский, Александр В.: Громкие эпизоды тихой войны, Стать о применении Авиация в противостоянии на Корейском полуострове (1953-2004 гг.), Авиация и Время, № 1, 2005.
Han Ho Suk: North Korea's war strategy of massive retaliations against US attacks, Part V, http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1361.html, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3099.htm.
N Korea admits Vietnam war role, BBC News, Saturday, 7 July, 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1427367.stm.
Vietnam War Mig-17 Pics, Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57959.