Research Catalog

Title

A MiG-15 to freedom : memoir of the wartime North Korean defector who first delivered the secret fighter jet to the Americans in 1953 / by No Kum-Sok, with J. Roger Osterholm.

Author

No, Kum-Sok

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Osterholm, J. Roger

Description

ix, 221 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• No, Kum-Sok
• No, Kum-Sok
• Korea (North). Air Force > Officers > Biography
• 1950-1953
• Korean War, 1950-1953 > Personal narratives, Korean
• Air pilots, Military > Korea (North) > Biography
• Air pilots, Military
• Armed Forces > Officers
• MiG 15
• Flugzeugführer
• Fahnenflucht
• Erlebnisbericht
• Geschichte 1953
• Korea (North)
• Nordkorea

Genre/Form

• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Personal narratives – Korean
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208) and index.

Contents

Preface / No Kum-Sok -- Foreword / J.R. Osterholm -- 1. Crossing the Line -- 2. Growing Up Under the Japanese -- 3. Maturing Under the Communists -- 4. North Korean Naval Academy -- 5. The Korean War Breaks Out -- 6. The Allies Retreat -- 7. Volunteer for the Unknown -- 8. Flight Training in Manchuria -- 9. Flying the MiG-15 -- 10. Aerial Combat Against F-86 Sabres -- 11. Battles in MiG Alley -- 12. The End of the Manchurian Sanctuary -- 13. Communist Party Membership -- 14. Struggle for Survival -- 15. Final Decision to Flee -- 16. Interrogation -- 17. America Tests the MiG-15bis -- 18. What an Interesting Country -- 19. My Early Adjustment -- 20. Success -- 21. Retrospective on North and South Korea.

ISBN

• 0786402105
• 9780786402106

LCCN

96027288

OCLC

• ocm35084460
• 35084460
• SCSB-2110293

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library