Soviet Aces over Korea

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot pilots.
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During the time that the "Honchos" (the nickname given by the Sabre pilots to excellent MiG pilots) were in Korea, between April 1951 and January 1952, they shot down or damaged beyond repair 142 UN aircraft against 68 losses, an overall 2:1 kill ratio.
Their most successful month was October 1951, when the Soviet MiG-15s bagged 7 F-86s, 6 F-84Es, 2 RF-80As and one F-80C, one Meteor and 10 B-29As -24 victories - and suffered only 8 MiGs lost. During that period over 30 Soviet MiG-15 pilots became aces.
Officially, there were 51 Soviet aces in Korea.The Russian aces dominated the struggle for air superiority over "MiG Alley" in the April 1951-January 1952 period, and earned the respect of their Americans adversaries.

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1. Capt. Nikolai Vasilievich Sutyagin "Casey Jones"
2. Col. Yevgeni Georgiyevich Pepelyayev "Big night boy"
3. Capt. Lev Kirilovich Shchukin "The Russian Lion"
4. Capt. Sergei Makarovich Kramarenko
5. Capt. Ivan V. Suchkov
6. Maj. Stepan Antonovich Bahayev
7. Konstantin N. Sheberstov
8. Grigorii U. Ohay
9. Mikhail S. Ponomaryev
10. Dmitri A. Samoylov
11. Pavel S. Milaushkin
12. Dmitri P. Oskin
13. Mikhail I. Mihin
14. Aleksandr P. Smorchkov
15. Grigorii I. Pulov
16. Serafim P. Subbotin
17. Capt. Semen Alexeivich Fedorets
18. V. N. Alfeyev
19. Fiodor A. Shebanov
20. Grigorii I. Ges
21. Anatoly M. Karelin
22. Arkadii S. Boitsov
23. Nikolai Ivanovich Ivanov
24. Nikolai M. Zameskin
25. Boris S. Abakumov
26. Grigorii N. Berelidze