Movement of Aircraft-Hunting Teams during Fatherland Liberation War

Pyongyang, July 16 (KCNA) -- Among the unique tactics created by President Kim Il Sung during the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953) is the aircraft-hunting team movement. From the beginning of the war, the U.S. imperialists heavily bombed the front and rear of the DPRK, boasting about its air superiority. To cope with this situation, on December 29, Juche 39 (1950), the President issued an order in his capacity as supreme commander to conduct an aircraft-hunting team movement. The movement was a powerful war method for frustrating the U.S. imperialist aggressors' "air superiority" and "air strategy" with ordinary small arms. He ensured that a mass-based campaign was waged against enemy planes, and clarified the detailed issues arising in implementing the tactics, including the number of the aircraft-hunting teams, their weapons, combat methods and firing positions. The aircraft-hunting team movement was another new war method rare to be found in military regulations or combat manuals of any other countries. An aircraft-hunting team of an infantry combined unit shot down three enemy planes in a day and as many as 11 in a month with a heavy machine gun. 3 000 enemy planes were shot down within two years since the start of the movement. This was a miracle unprecedented in the world history of wars. A foreign journalist visited the DPRK at a time when the war was at its height as it was hard to believe the news that thousands of enemy planes were shot down by small arms. After witnessing a plane-hunting team shooting down enemy planes with small arms, the journalist said that it was a heroic epic-like feat to be performed only by the heroic Korean people, and such a miracle was the first of its kind in the history of modern wars.

Movement of Aircraft-Hunting Teams during Fatherland Liberation War

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