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 and J. Roger Osterholm

Book Overview

On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the most advanced Soviet-built fighter plane of the era, piloted by Senior Lieutenant No Kum-Sok, a 21-year-old North Korean Air Force officer.

Once he landed, Lieutenant No found that his mother had escaped to the South two years earlier, and they were soon reunited. At his request, No came to the United States and became a U.S...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786431067
• ISBN13: 9780786431069
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher