When Secret Soviet MiG Aces Fought US Sabres

In the skies over Korea at the height of the cold war, Soviet fighter aces secretly fought against the UN forces. Northwest Korea over the Yalu river, also known as Mig Alley is where most of these engagements occurred. The US pilots named these talented aviators "Honchos". The Head Honcho that patrolled over Mig Alley, was nicknamed "Casey Jones" or "Ol' Casey". Flying a MIG 15 bis with a special paint job, Casey Jones was none other than Soviet WW2 pilot Sergei Kramarenko.

Thanks to Vika for translating the information from the Russian sources. In particular Sergei Kramarenko's memoire, "Against Messerschmitts and Sabre Jets. In the Sky of Two Wars" by Sergei Kramarenko

We also took references from the excellent book F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 : Korea 1950-53 by Douglas C. Dildy and Warren Thompson

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[Yarnhub]

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[sup_py]

Doing recon: Speaks korean
In combat: Speaks russian
Radioman: *Visible confusion*

[paleoph]

We want, no, we *need* more stories on the Korean War, especially when Yarnhub does it very well.

[wog]

THE ANIMATION IS HONESTLY GETTING SO MUCH BETTER!

[zmanprodigy]

Animating that battle with the two groups of Sabre’s must have been hell, but it was definitely worth it, I’d say that this episode is the best animated of them all.

[PalKrammer]

Since I was a kid, I have always thought the MiG-15 was the most beautiful fighter jet. It fascinates me from all angles. I want to fly in one.

[Justabadplayer]

The quality of Yarnhub's videos increases faster than the acceleration of a MiG plane at full thrust

[gooey]

i honestly have no idea how to comment other than my usual "under rated"

[adammajed]

Hol' up this dude just did a "let Me show him a little trick I learned"

[Elrusoargentino]

I had the honour to research this and other topics of the Korean War with Russian historian Igor Seydov (I should better say that he did the brunt of the research, with some minor contributions from me) and American ones (Kenneth Werrell and Earl McGill). Regarding the aerial combat on 17 January 1952 that you portray at the end of the video, when Kramarenko hit a Sabre but was subsequently shot down, I think I can provide some names: the F-86E Kramarenko hit was the BuNo 50-636 flown by Major George V. Wendling, and was severely damaged, but survived to fight other battles till his final destruction on 13 April 1952 by another "Casey Jones" (MiG Ace Arkadiy Boytsov). The Sabre pilot who shot down Kramarenko was, most like, Major William Shaeffer of the 16 FIS, 51 FIW (the same unit than Wendling). I have only one complain: you failed to mention that Serguey Kramarenko was fired upon after ejecting and while was floating defenceless in the parachute, probably by Shaeffer. I cannot say whether Shaeffer was trying to murder him (Kramarenko sincerely believed this when Igor and I interviewed him back in 2007), or was just shooting in his general direction trying to get some guncamera pics where the parachute would be clearly visible, to get credit for the MiG kill (as Werrell suggested me). All that I can say is that many other Soviet pilots suffered similar experiences, and no less than four of them were murdered while hanging defenceless in their chutes. Have a nice day, very good video, keep up the good work.

[m-icebear]

If the Mig is spraying like that he should be out of ammo in 6.3 second.

[racapinang]

It's a insane job that Yarnhub team manage to animate all those dodge fight and make them look like a real fight.

[joeshmoe]

To compete with yarnhub, the history channel is making a new show about alien truckers who own pawn shops. 😜

[lonniebailey]

1 minute early to the greatest history channel.

[rowanennis]

My great grandfather was actually colonel Bruce Hinton, I have a painting in my room of the plane he had . I had no idea that the pilot of the mig-15 he shot bailed out. It was quite a shock.

[sergei_bobrov]

My grandfather was on this war on North Korea’s side, he was a pilot, but in the naval bombers, not in Mig’s, in IL-4, I guess, I don’t remember purely, he died 16 years ago.

He was lieutenant-colonel (подполковник) in American system of officer’s ranges an participated on WWII, on Japanese campaign in 1945 in Manchuria/Korea and in Korean War, but all live for everyone he was only “WWII veteran”, and not “Korean veteran”, because of secrecy of this information.

In this war were a lot of soviet pilots, my grandfather told me that they speak in radio chat on korean language for disguise that on north korean side are soviet soldiers.

But in some hot moments they started speaking russian and everybody in radio wave understands that he has battle with soviet pilots so sometimes US pilots gone away because soviet pilots have huge experience and were more professional than chinese or koreans pilots.

Interesting that now I can find on comments people whose grandparents were on other side in this war and talk story from “the enemy side”

[yeettheheat]

4:29 War thunder be like: *YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR LEFT WING!*

[supersimon]

MiG alley huh? *Turns around on the airfield and takes off backwards*

[josephstalin]

I swear the animation keeps getting better and better each video

[WinVisten]

This man was a badass. I am American, but I respect a brave, honorable, and noble soldier on ANY side. Any soldier who does not commit war crimes and follows the rules of war and saves lives, is a hero by my book. But men like Audie Murphy, Franz Stigler, Mad Jack Churchill, Alvin York, and Sergei here are heroes in another way as well. They have done MORE than risked their lives to defend the freedom and safety of their homelands, and that's what being a soldier is all about. o7