In the 50s, the Americans bombed the USSR. Our Pearl Harbor is called a dry river. Russian eyewitnesses recall

Few people know that on October 8, 1950, two US Air Force fighter-bombers crossed the border of the USSR, went deep into a distance of about one hundred kilometers, and attacked the Sukhaya Rechka military field airfield.

June 25, 1950 A military conflict began between North and South Korea. Volunteer units from the PRC fought on the side of North Korea; the USSR provided financial support and the supply of weapons and military advisers. The South Korean grouping included the Americans, Great Britain and a number of other countries that were part of the UN peacekeeping force.

Although the Soviet Union did not officially participate in the hostilities, there were armed clashes.

June 26, 1950 South Korean ships fired at the Plastun ship, which was part of the 5th Navy, as a result of which the ship’s commander, Lieutenant Commander Kolesnikov, was killed. Some of the crew members were injured. The enemy retreated only after return fire was opened.

September 4, 1950 An unidentified destroyer approached the port of Dalniy. An A-20Zh reconnaissance aircraft was lifted into the air, accompanied by two fighters. When approaching the target, they were immediately attacked by 11 American fighters. A-20Zh was shot down and fell into the sea. The crew died.

October 8, 1950 It was Sunday. Residents of the surrounding villages were relaxing at the seaside; the Sukhaya Rechka field airfield lived according to a weekend schedule. For the exercises, Po-2 air spotters and Kingcobra piston fighters were relocated to it. There were about 20 planes in total, standing in an orderly line near the runway.

At five o'clock in the evening the silence of the peaceful sky was torn apart by the sound of jet engines. Two American Lockheed F-80C fighter-bombers passed over the airfield and, making a combat turn, attacked the aircraft on the ground. One of the planes burned out completely, and seven were damaged. According to official data, there were no casualties.
Chasing jets with piston fighters was unrealistic.

On October 9, the USSR submitted an official note of protest to the UN. The government of the Soviet Union was greatly concerned. They could not understand whether this was the beginning of the third world war, or a mistake by the pilots.

On October 20, US President Harry Truman, speaking at the UN, admitted the guilt of the United States and expressed regret that the American armed forces were involved in the incident of violating the border of the USSR and damaging Soviet property. He stated that the regiment commander was dismissed and the pilots were handed over to a military tribunal.

Despite the fact that the incident seemed to be settled, the 303rd Aviation Division, which included MIG-15 jets, was immediately relocated from the Moscow region to the Far East. The troops were put on combat duty. The situation in the units was alarming.

According to the former pilot of the 821st Aviation Regiment V. Zabelin, there could be no mistake. The Americans had to be able to clearly see where they were flying and what they were bombing. This was a clear provocation. Zabelin also recalled that both the commander of the fighter regiment, Colonel Savelyev, and his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Vinogradov, were put on trial and demoted after the bombing. For failing to repel the Americans.

The Americans continued to defend the version of pilot error until 1990. One of the pilots who bombed the Soviet airfield, Olton Kvonbek, claimed that low clouds and strong winds were to blame.

According to the commander of the 64th Aviation Corps at that time, now deceased, Lieutenant General Georgy Lobov, there was no low clouds over the Sukhaya Rechka airfield. On the contrary, the day was sunny and cloudless. There could be no question of the Americans losing their bearings. If the Americans had made a mistake and lost their bearings, they should have realized their mistake even as they approached the Pacific coast. According to its outlines. The further track record of Alton Kvonbeck also raises doubts about the mistake. He's quite successful. Most likely, the bombing was carried out deliberately, and the incident was a pure provocation on the part of the United States.

Of course, seven aircraft is not a great loss for a superpower. There were no casualties. If
believe the official statement. It’s just not clear then where the monument number 106 came from in the Khasansky district of the Primorsky Territory, which is listed as “the mass unmarked grave of the pilots who died repelling American bombers in 1950.” It is located near the village of Perevoznoye. This is the former territory of the military town of Sukhaya Rechka.

Evgeniy SHOLOH

The impudence of the United States, which considers itself the “masters of the world” after the collapse of the USSR, and unleashed aggression against Iraq, in general, probably did not surprise anyone. However, few people know that the impudence of the Americans literally knew no bounds even half a century ago in relation to the USSR. Until we sobered them up. Rockets...

Our sky was like a passageway...

After World War II, our recent allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, the Americans, became insolent and began to completely ignore our air borders. The States sent dozens of their reconnaissance aircraft into the airspace of the Soviet Union, essentially turning our skies into a walk-through yard. At that time, we had nothing to “adequately respond” to the impudent people: the American “B-29”, “B-52”, “B-47” and “RV-47” with a very high flight altitude “ceiling” were inaccessible to Soviet air defense systems, not which were then still armed with long-range anti-aircraft missiles.

Judging by the documents we have, in the 50s. Americans managed to roam with impunity in the airspace in the areas of Moscow, Leningrad, the Baltic states, Kiev, Minsk, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, the Soviet Far East - Primorye, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Kamchatka...

And it happened that they not only wandered around in the air, wherever they happened to be, satisfying their spy curiosity, but also attacked our military installations. Thus, on October 8, 1950, two US Air Force F-80 Meteor aircraft not only flew into the territory of Soviet Primorye, but also suddenly attacked the Pacific Fleet Air Force airfield near the village of Sukhaya Rechka, located in the Khasansky district, as a result of which seven our planes! As a participant in the Korean War, an air defense fighter pilot, retired aviation colonel Sergei Tyurin, recalled: “By the time we received the go-ahead to intercept, these vultures, presumably, were already drinking beer in Seoul...”

It even got to the point that the Yankees, having invaded our airspace, demonstratively practiced launching a nuclear strike on ground targets of the Soviet Union. This is exactly what happened on April 29, 1954 on the Kyiv-Smolensk-Novgorod line, when several dozen US Air Force aircraft really got on the nerves of the Soviet military-political leadership...

In connection with all these facts, on May 27, 1954, the leadership of the USSR was forced to adopt a resolution “On unpunished flights of foreign aircraft over the territory of the USSR,” which set the strict task of a special design bureau to quickly create the necessary means of counteracting presumptuous Americans.

"Neptune" was sent to the bottom

According to some reports, we managed to do this for the first time on April 8, 1950 in the Baltic. A US Air Force B-29 violated the border in the Liepaja area and invaded 21 km into our territory. Soviet fighters intercepted him and ordered him to follow them to land at the airfield. However, the B-52 opened fire and tried to escape. This predetermined his further fate: the downed American fell into the Baltic Sea. Of the 10 crew members, the search team managed to pick up only one alive...

On November 6, 1951, during a reconnaissance flight over the Sea of ​​Japan, a US Navy P2V Neptune aircraft from the American naval base in Atsugi Japan was shot down by a Soviet fighter. What happened to the Neptune crew is unknown to this day. And on the afternoon of November 18, 1951, 30 km south of Cape Gamow in Peter the Great Bay, an air battle took place between four Soviet MiG-15 fighters and a group of US Air Force F-9 fighters. There is still conflicting information about this clash. However, it is known that as a result of this skirmish, three MiGs did not return home: one crashed and fell into the sea near Cape Lion, the other two were shot down in the area of ​​Furugelm Island (both were discovered and raised). One of our pilots managed to bail out, but he was never found, either alive or dead. The Americans were lucky then: only one of their planes was damaged.

On June 13, 1952, during a reconnaissance flight over the Sea of ​​Japan, our fighter shot down a US Air Force RB-29 aircraft from the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (from the Yokoto base, Japan). The fate of 12 members of its crew remains unknown.

On October 7, 1952, our MiG managed to shoot down another American reconnaissance aircraft RB-29 from the same 91st squadron near the Kuril Islands. Of the 8 crew members, our search and rescue forces found only the lifeless body of US Air Force Captain John Donham, who was interred by Soviet border guards on the Kuril Island of Yuri (in 1994, his remains were exhumed by the American side and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery).

By the way, we must pay tribute to the Americans who did everything possible to save their surviving soldiers (for example, during the war in Korea and Vietnam, they had special operational search and rescue teams that quickly found themselves at the site of a downed helicopter or Air Force plane USA), and also to find the bodies of the dead at any cost, establish their names and bury them with honors in their homeland. In the USSR, and even today in Russia, the living were not and are not favored, and there is no need to talk about the dead. 58 years have passed since the Great Patriotic War, and according to various estimates, from 800 thousand to 1.5 million soldiers who died on the battlefield defending the Fatherland from Hitler’s invasion are still not buried. But the old wisdom says: the war cannot be considered over until the last soldier is buried, as expected.

Early in the morning of July 29, 1953, the Pacific Fleet radar detected an unknown aircraft heading for Vladivostok 130 miles south of Cape Gamow. After 12 min. from the airfield of the fighter aviation regiment in Nikolaevka, two duty MiG-17 fighters, piloted by Guard Captain Alexander Rybakov and Guard Senior Lieutenant Yuri Yablonovsky, were scrambled to intercept the adversary. At 7 o'clock 11 min. Flight commander A. Rybakov discovered an intruder aircraft over our territorial waters at a distance of 10 km south of Askold Island, which turned out to be an American B-50 bomber. The Yankees responded to a signal from our pilots that they were in USSR airspace and must immediately leave it with fire, damaging A. Rybakov’s MiG. Ours fired back with air cannons. And at 7 o'clock. 16 min. - in 15 minutes. after entering Soviet airspace, a US Air Force B-50 crashed into the water 8 miles south of Askold Island, where its wreckage rests to this day at a depth of approximately 3 thousand meters. A day later, the American destroyer managed to save one of the plane's crew members - the second pilot, Lieutenant John Rogue.

Soviet aviation losses

We too lost planes during the Cold War. There are 14 of them on this black list. True, the American side, as far as we know, recognizes only two Soviet planes they shot down. This is the A-20Zh Boston bomber (received under Lend-Lease from the United States in 1944), shot down on September 4, 1950 in the area of ​​Khayon Dao Island by carrier-based fighters from the American aircraft carrier Wally Roger (the remains of one of the pilots Lieutenant Mishin was returned to us in 1956). And unarmed, converted into a passenger Il-12, en route from Port Arthur to Vladivostok, and destroyed by American Air Force fighters on July 27, 1953 - the day the war on the Korean Peninsula ended (there were 21 people on board, including crew members; urns with their ashes on December 18, 1953 were interred in the park at the Dalzavodskaya stop in Vladivostok). The Americans deny involvement in the death of the rest of our planes, so to this day nothing is known about their fate. Let's name some of them. On July 15, 1964, while tracking the actions of a US Navy carrier strike group 200 miles east of Japan, our Tu-16R disappeared. On May 25, 1968, another Tu-16R, performing a reconnaissance flight in the area where an American carrier strike group was located in the Norwegian Sea, suddenly caught fire and crashed into the water. The Yankees found the bodies of three of the seven pilots and transferred them to the Soviet warship. On January 10, 1978, in the area of ​​the Japanese Islands, the Soviet Tu-95RTs plane with its entire crew disappeared into obscurity...

The Rockets opened the scoring...

But if from time to time we managed to shoot down ordinary US Air Force planes, then we “get” the American “ghost” - the new U-2 reconnaissance aircraft from Lockheed (built since 1956) with a small reflective surface and a flight altitude ceiling We couldn’t reach 20-25 km (the MiG-19 couldn’t fly higher than 17.5 km; there were no such missiles). Meanwhile, the U-2 flew with complete impunity over almost the entire territory of the Soviet Union, incl. over Moscow and Leningrad (the defense of which was considered one of the most reliable in the world), collecting the necessary intelligence information.

As part of the secret reconnaissance program "Moby-Dick", US intelligence agencies launched into Soviet airspace special high-altitude balloons equipped with automatic cameras and other spy equipment, which pilots of both the USSR and the USA often mistook for UFOs. In 1957, our anti-aircraft gunners in the Kuril Islands discovered such a balloon and even opened fire, but to no avail - the target was at too high a height.

But at some point there is a limit to everything. And we finally hit it. Although some of our aircraft designers, and other scientists, could not believe for a long time that an airplane could “hang” for hours at such an unimaginable altitude, and therefore were inclined to think, like the pilots, that it was most likely a UFO.

The events of May 1, 1960 demonstrated that anomalous phenomena or any devilry had nothing to do with this case. On this day, in the area of ​​industrial Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), crammed with defense enterprises, a US Air Force U-2 spy plane, piloted by pilot Francis Harry Powers, appeared at its unattainable altitude. Our anti-aircraft gunners, using the new S-75 missile, finally “got” him without much difficulty. The plane crashed to the ground. The pilot, instead of committing suicide, as he was instructed to do, chose to eject and surrender to the mercy of the victors. True, our anti-aircraft gunners then shot down another plane. Mine. By mistake. Pilot Safronov was posthumously awarded the order, closed by decree. And the widow of the deceased captain was ordered not to talk about what happened to her husband.

Powers was tried and imprisoned, although not for long. Soon he was exchanged for our intelligence officer Colonel Rudolf Abel (Fischer), captured in the USA back in 1957.

And two months later, on July 1, 1960, over the Baltic, we shot down another aerial spy - an RV-47 aircraft, the crew of which did not want to obey and land at our airfield. One crew member died, the other two - US Air Force Lieutenants D. McCone and F. Olmstead - were captured and were subsequently returned to their homeland.

So in the early 60s. The airspace of our Motherland was closed. Until it was uncorked in May 1987 by a German amateur pilot, 19-year-old Matthias Rust, who on Border Guard Day landed his light-engine Cessna right on... Moscow's Red Square. There was shock among the military-political leadership of the USSR. It was much more than a shame...

The last case of confrontation in the air during the Cold War period, according to our data, occurred in the same year, 1987, on September 13. NATO conducted naval exercises close to our northern borders. It is clear that we were watching them, they were watching us. This is common in such cases. When our Su-27 fighter, on orders, made a training interception of the Norwegian P-3 Orion patrol aircraft and began to fly it over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea, the Norwegian tried with a special maneuver not only to get rid of the Soviet Sushka, but also to punish her pilot. But he did not take into account the unique technical capabilities of the Su-27, and as a result, the Orion itself suffered, hitting the end of the fin of our aircraft with its propeller. The Norwegian's propeller fell, hitting the wing and fuselage of the Orion with fragments, which, having started smoking and giving a distress signal, barely reached its base...

And there was a diplomatic scandal. Our pilot was accused of “amateur activity” and roughly punished as a warning to others - the Gorbachev era of “new thinking” was gaining momentum, when one after another, hard-won positions were surrendered to the mercy of the United States and political priorities began to change sharply, as a result of which the potential enemy became “ partner."

Instead of an epilogue

The harsh confrontation of the Cold War seemed to have sunk into oblivion and become history. There is no longer either the USSR or the socialist military bloc “Warsaw Pact”. However, judging by events in the world in recent years, Americans are still itching. The declared “partnership” relations with Russia cannot be fully considered as such. US aviation, as in the old days, hangs along our borders, perhaps only without invading Russian space, spy satellites and ground tracking stations keep a watchful eye on Russian “friends”, and nuclear submarines are periodically discovered in naval Russian bases in the North and Far East: off the coast of Kamchatka, in Peter the Great Gulf near Askold Island...

Few people know that in fact, in those years, overseas planes nevertheless struck Soviet territory with impunity. This happened in the Far East in October 1950...

On October 8, 1950, at 16.17 local time, two US Air Force Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star (Meteor) fighters violated the state border of the USSR and, going almost 100 km deep, attacked the Soviet military field airfield Sukhaya Rechka 165 km from Vladivostok, in the Khasansky district. As a result of shelling by US Air Force aircraft in the parking lot, seven aircraft of the Soviet squadron were damaged, one burned completely.

That fall, the war on the Korean Peninsula was already raging with might and main. The volleys thundered very close to our common state border with the Koreans. In addition, the Americans and their allies did not stand on ceremony with respect for international law. Combat aircraft of a potential enemy made systematic flights near Soviet cities and military bases. Although the USSR did not officially participate in the war, there were armed clashes.

On the night of June 26, 1950, in international waters, South Korean warships fired at the cable ship Plastun, which was part of the 5th USSR Navy (now the Pacific Fleet), resulting in the death of the ship's commander, Lieutenant Commander Kolesnikov. Some of the crew members were injured. The enemy retreated only after return fire was opened.

On September 4 of the same year, to monitor the actions of an unidentified destroyer that approached a distance of 26 kilometers from the port of Dalniy (formerly Port Arthur), the crew of the Soviet A-20Zh Boston reconnaissance aircraft, senior lieutenant Konstantin Korpaev, was alerted. He was accompanied by two of our fighters. On approaching the target, Soviet planes were attacked immediately by 11 American fighters. As a result of a short air battle, the Boston caught fire and fell into the ocean. All three members of his crew were killed.

Such was the military-political background at that time in the Far East. It is not surprising that the units and formations of the Soviet Armed Forces in those parts were in constant tension. Alarms and orders for immediate dispersal followed one after another. On October 7, 1950, just such a one came to the 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 190th Fighter Aviation Division, armed with old American piston Kingcobras, received under Lend-Lease during the Great Patriotic War. The pilots had to urgently fly to the field airfield of the Pacific Fleet Sukhaya Rechka in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai, 100 kilometers from the Soviet-Korean border. By the morning of October 8, all three squadrons of the regiment were already in their new location. Then something almost incredible began.

On Sunday at 16:17 local time, two jet planes suddenly appeared over Sukhaya Rechka. In a low-level flight they passed over the airfield, then turned around and opened fire. Before anyone could understand anything, six Soviet planes were damaged and one burned out. There is not a word in the archival documents about whether there were any killed or wounded in the 821st Air Regiment. But more on this below.

It turned out that American F-80 Shuting Star fighters stormed Sukhaya Rechka. The pilots of the 821st Air Regiment did not try to pursue the F-80 jets. Yes, this would be impossible on their piston Kingcobras.

On October 9, the USSR submitted an official note of protest to the UN. The government of the Soviet Union was greatly concerned. They could not understand whether this was the beginning of the third world war, or a mistake by the pilots.

On October 20, US President Harry Truman, speaking at the UN, admitted the guilt of the United States and expressed regret that American military forces were involved in an incident that violated the Soviet border and damaged Soviet property. He stated that the regiment commander was dismissed and the pilots were handed over to a military tribunal, which attack on the territory of the Soviet Union was "the result of a navigational error and poor judgment" by the pilots. And also that the commander of the aviation unit, which included the F-80, was removed from his post, and disciplinary sanctions were imposed on the pilots.

Despite the fact that the incident seemed to be settled, the 303rd Aviation Division, which included MIG-15 jets, was immediately relocated from the Moscow region to the Far East. The troops were put on combat duty. The situation in the units was alarming.

The Americans continued to defend the version of pilot error until 1990.

“There was a war in Korea. Soviet meteorological data was classified, which deprived us of information about the weather in Siberia and the Far East,” recalled Kwonbek, a former employee of the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee, and also a former pilot of one of the two American fighters that stormed the Sukhaya Rechka airfield in 1950.- There were no identifying marks on the ground, there was no radio navigation... At an altitude of 3 thousand meters in the clouds, I found a hole in the clouds, we rushed into it and found ourselves above a wide river valley... I didn’t know exactly where we were.. "A truck was walking along the dusty road to the west."
The Americans decided to catch up with the truck and, pursuing the car, went out to the airfield. It looked similar to the Chongjin airfield that the pilots had seen on the large-scale map.

"Soviet radars must have located us at a distance of about 100 miles from the border. Following our descent, they probably lost us in the folds of the terrain as we descended into the river valley. A general combat alert was announced, but the Russians had no aircraft or missiles ready to repel an attack.It was Sunday afternoon. There were many planes at the airfield - the dream of any military pilot. About 20 aircraft of the P-39 and P-63 types were lined up in two rows... On the dark green fuselages there were large red stars with a white rim. There was almost no time to make decisions, the fuel was also running out... I went in from the left, fired several bursts, my partner Allen Diefendorf did the same.”

Having made sure that the target was hit, the Meteors turned around and flew away. As they departed from the target, the Americans set course for the base and suddenly saw an island near the coast. “Wow,” I thought,” Kwonbaek recalled. “There is no island near Chongjin...”. Upon returning, the pilots reported that they had bombed an airfield with planes. Experts checked the recording of the plane's camera, and it turned out that the planes at the airfield were American Kingcobras, supplied by the Americans to the Russians under lend-lease. The camera showed that the planes on the ground did not burst into flames - there was probably no fuel, which means that it was definitely not a North Korean military airfield and the pilots were mistaken.

According to the commander of the 64th Aviation Corps at that time, now deceased, Lieutenant General Georgy Lobov and the former pilot of the 821st Aviation Regiment V. Zabelin, there could be no mistake. The Americans had to be able to clearly see where they were flying and what they were bombing. This was a clear provocation. According to Zabelin, “The Americans saw perfectly well where they were flying. We flew 100 kilometers from our border with Korea. They knew everything perfectly well. They came up with the idea that the young pilots got lost.” Alton Kvonbek’s further track record also raises doubts about the mistake. He's quite successful. Most likely, the bombing was carried out deliberately, and the incident was a pure provocation on the part of the United States.

However, in any case, this is not the only mystery of those events. The archival documents of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR speak only of Soviet aircraft crashed and damaged as a result of a surprise attack. And not a word about human losses.

Of course, seven aircraft is not a great loss for a superpower. There were no casualties. Ifbelieve the official statement. However, apparently they were there too. At least, in the list of monuments of the Khasansky district of the Primorsky Territory under number 106 indicates “the mass unmarked grave of the pilots who died repelling American bombers in 1950.” It also states that the grave is located near the village of Perevoznoye, the former territory of the military town of Sukhaya Rechka.

It is strange, of course, that the grave is unmarked. It’s strange that the military archives are silent about her.

In our country and during the Great Patriotic War, the fallen were buried anywhere and anyhow, without caring about the mark on the map. For seventy years now, search parties have been roaming the battlefields. And they will wander for a long time...

How many of us have heard about this...

This day in history:

On October 8, 1950, at 16.17 local time, two US Air Force Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star (Meteor) fighters violated the state border of the USSR and, going almost 100 km deep, attacked the Soviet military field airfield Sukhaya Rechka 165 km from Vladivostok, in the Khasansky district. As a result of shelling by US Air Force aircraft in the parking lot, seven aircraft of the Soviet squadron were damaged, one burned completely.

That fall, the war on the Korean Peninsula was already raging with might and main. The volleys thundered very close to our common state border with the Koreans. In addition, the Americans and their allies did not stand on ceremony with respect for international law. Combat aircraft of a potential enemy made systematic flights near Soviet cities and military bases. Although the USSR did not officially participate in the war, there were armed clashes.

On the night of June 26, 1950, in international waters, South Korean warships fired at the cable ship Plastun, which was part of the 5th USSR Navy (now the Pacific Fleet), resulting in the death of the ship's commander, Lieutenant Commander Kolesnikov. Some of the crew members were injured. The enemy retreated only after return fire was opened.

On September 4 of the same year, to monitor the actions of an unidentified destroyer that approached a distance of 26 kilometers from the port of Dalniy (formerly Port Arthur), the crew of the Soviet A-20Zh Boston reconnaissance aircraft, senior lieutenant Konstantin Korpaev, was alerted. He was accompanied by two of our fighters. On approaching the target, Soviet planes were attacked immediately by 11 American fighters. As a result of a short air battle, the Boston caught fire and fell into the ocean. All three members of his crew were killed.

Such was the military-political background at that time in the Far East. It is not surprising that the units and formations of the Soviet Armed Forces in those parts were in constant tension. Alarms and orders for immediate dispersal followed one after another. On October 7, 1950, just such a one came to the 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 190th Fighter Aviation Division, armed with old American piston Kingcobras, received under Lend-Lease during the Great Patriotic War. The pilots had to urgently fly to the field airfield of the Pacific Fleet Sukhaya Rechka in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai, 100 kilometers from the Soviet-Korean border. By the morning of October 8, all three squadrons of the regiment were already in their new location. Then something almost incredible began.

On Sunday at 16:17 local time, two jet planes suddenly appeared over Sukhaya Rechka. In a low-level flight they passed over the airfield, then turned around and opened fire. Before anyone could understand anything, six Soviet planes were damaged and one burned out. There is not a word in the archival documents about whether there were any killed or wounded in the 821st Air Regiment. But more on this below.

It turned out that American F-80 Shuting Star fighters stormed Sukhaya Rechka. The pilots of the 821st Air Regiment did not try to pursue the F-80 jets. Yes, this would be impossible on their piston Kingcobras.

On October 9, the USSR submitted an official note of protest to the UN. The government of the Soviet Union was greatly concerned. They could not understand whether this was the beginning of the third world war, or a mistake by the pilots.

On October 20, US President Harry Truman, speaking at the UN, admitted the guilt of the United States and expressed regret that the American armed forces were involved in the incident of violating the border of the USSR and damaging Soviet property. He said that the regiment commander was fired and the pilots were handed over to a military tribunal, and that the attack on the territory of the Soviet Union was “the result of a navigation error and poor calculation” of the pilots. And also that the commander of the aviation unit, which included the F-80, was removed from his post, and disciplinary sanctions were imposed on the pilots.

Despite the fact that the incident seemed to be settled, the 303rd Aviation Division, which included MIG-15 jets, was immediately relocated from the Moscow region to the Far East. The troops were put on combat duty. The situation in the units was alarming.

The Americans continued to defend the version of pilot error until 1990.

“The Korean War was going on. Soviet meteorological data was classified, which deprived us of information about the weather in Siberia and the Far East,” recalled Kwonbek, a former CIA and Senate Intelligence Committee official, and also a former pilot of one of the two American fighters that attacked Sukhaya Rechka airfield in 1950. - There were no identifying marks on the ground, there was no radio navigation... At an altitude of 3 thousand meters I found a hole in the clouds, we rushed into it and found ourselves above a wide river valley... I didn’t knew exactly where we were... A truck was coming along the dusty road to the west.”

The Americans decided to catch up with the truck and, pursuing the car, went out to the airfield. It looked similar to the Chongjin airfield that the pilots had seen on the large-scale map.

"Soviet radars must have located us at a distance of about 100 miles from the border. Following our descent, they probably lost us in the folds of the terrain as we descended into the river valley. A general combat alert was announced, but the Russians had no aircraft or missiles, ready to repel an attack. It was Sunday afternoon. There were many aircraft parked at the airfield - the dream of any military pilot. About 20 aircraft of the P-39 and P-63 types were lined up in two rows... On dark green fuselages there were big red stars with a white rim. There was almost no time to make decisions, the fuel was also running out... I went in from the left, fired several bursts, my partner Allen Diefendorf did as I did."

Having made sure that the target was hit, the Meteors turned around and flew away. As they departed from the target, the Americans set course for the base and suddenly saw an island near the coast. “Wow,” I thought, recalled Kwonbaek. “There is no island near Chongjin...”. Upon returning, the pilots reported that they had bombed an airfield with planes. Experts checked the recording of the plane's camera, and it turned out that the planes at the airfield were American Kingcobras, supplied by the Americans to the Russians under lend-lease. The camera showed that the planes on the ground did not burst into flames - there was probably no fuel, which means that it was definitely not a North Korean military airfield and the pilots were mistaken.

According to the commander of the 64th Aviation Corps at that time, now deceased, Lieutenant General Georgy Lobov and the former pilot of the 821st Aviation Regiment V. Zabelin, there could be no mistake. The Americans had to be able to clearly see where they were flying and what they were bombing. This was a clear provocation. According to Zabelin, “The Americans saw perfectly well where they were flying. We flew 100 kilometers from our border with Korea. They knew everything perfectly well. They came up with the idea that the young pilots got lost.” Alton Kvonbek’s further track record also raises doubts about the mistake. He's quite successful. Most likely, the bombing was carried out deliberately, and the incident was a pure provocation on the part of the United States.

However, in any case, this is not the only mystery of those events. The archival documents of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR speak only of Soviet aircraft crashed and damaged as a result of a surprise attack. And not a word about human losses.

Of course, seven aircraft is not a great loss for a superpower. There were no casualties. According to the official statement. However, apparently they were there too. At least, in the list of monuments in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai, at number 106 there is a “mass unmarked grave of pilots who died repelling American bombers in 1950.” It also states that the grave is located near the village of Perevoznoye, the former territory of the military town of Sukhaya Rechka.

It is strange, of course, that the grave is unmarked. It’s strange that the military archives are silent about her.

In our country and during the Great Patriotic War, the fallen were buried anywhere and anyhow, without caring about the mark on the map. For seventy years now, search parties have been roaming the battlefields. And they will wander for a long time...

How many of us have heard about this...

On May 9, 1945, the country of the USSR celebrated the Victory over Nazi Germany. The victory was shared with other countries, such as the United States, which opened the Second Front and supplied us with goods through Lend Leasing.

But already in 1946 and 1953 the United States bombed our Far East and Siberia. From the official data of the USSR Ministry of Defense it is not clear what kind of war it was over the next 7 years. The war was covered up by the “Korean War.” But they bombed NOT Korea, but us.

"According to the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Soviet aviation units lost 335 aircraft and 120 pilots. The 64th Fighter Corps, which took part in the Korean War, numbered 26 thousand people. According to the corps commander, Lieutenant General G.A. Lobov, our losses in air battles amounted to 335 aircraft and, according to updated data, 200 pilots."
(See Izvestia, February 9, 1994 and Komsomolskaya Pravda - June 25, 1991.)

Every war has a goal. Announced and secret.
What was the purpose of the UNKNOWN war of 1946-1953. ?

Stalin and Budyonny stand at the Mausoleum on Red Square near the Kremlin during the parade, Moscow.

We live in a fog of myths and lies

Do we know our history? Do we remember the events that happen to us? It is unlikely that a person remembers everything that happened to him in his life. Therefore, it is also impossible to remember historical facts, especially when you are still introduced into the darkness, hiding reality in the labyrinths of politics and the struggle to enslave the peoples of the world by a pack of ever-hungry jackals.

We live in one place of our big country, and we don’t know what’s going on at the other end. The country is big, but people live only in their own small reality.

Today there is a cold war between Russia and NATO countries led by the United States. Living and being contemporaries of our lives, we still do not know what is really going on around us, because many facts are hidden, as if they did not exist.

It’s no wonder that today we are revealing to you events from the past that are hard to believe. Our grandfathers and parents lived at that time, but they did not tell us everything that we learn from archival data. But these events happened to people. Hundreds of people were witnesses. Were they silent? Why? Or all the witnesses to the “inconvenient” events were liquidated, as was usually done in our Soviet society.

In the 60s of the twentieth century, that is, in 1960 onwards, uprisings broke out in Russia against the state power of the period of the General Secretary of the Party Nikita Khrushchev. The uprisings were brutally suppressed. Tanks crushed people. They were shot in the squares. If these were small settlements, then, as a rule, entire villages fell under liquidation. If the whole city expressed dissatisfaction, then it was more difficult here. But, despite these difficulties in silencing a large mass of the population, the military put cities under siege, blocked all exits from the city, and searched every house, every apartment for information leakage to other cities.

The puncture only happened once. In a large industrial city An uprising broke out in Novocherkassk. People were starving. Salaries were reduced. There was nothing to eat, stores were gaping with empty shelves. Slave labor could not be introduced into the post-war population when the Second World War of 1941-1945 developed in the people the desire to survive at any cost. The hands of the male population still remembered the shutters of the machine guns. The mentality of the population still clearly tried to divide into friend or foe.

But there were cases, egregious in their cynicism, when the “truth” did not go beyond the boundaries of hundreds of hectares of land. Because there was practically no one to tell what is hard to believe today.

For example, few people know that the United States bombed our Far East in the 50s. Just 30 km from the big city of Vladivostok, US Navy fighter jets bombed five military units.

Our allies in the war against fascism after the end of the war, five years later, started a new war with the USSR, about which practically nothing is known to this day.

In October 1950, four (4) American fighters attacked the Sukhaya Rechka military unit. They were completely bombed, along with the civilian population around the unit.

Then, day after day, about 11 American fighters flew from Japanese airfields and bombed our next military installations. Bombed according to official data, which we do not fully know, 5 military units, 103 military aircraft.

And until now the world does not know the truth about the war in the Far East on the territory of the USSR. The truth is still banned. And only some declassified data reaches us, such as an interview with Poltoranin in Karaulov’s program.

Our consciousness is still being clouded with false data about real events. The bombing of Siberia and the Far East by the Americans continued for more than one day. And it was not a surprise for us, for the USSR. There was a war in the Far East, which for us was designated as the Korean War.

"There was a war in Korea. Soviet meteorological data was classified, which deprived us weather information in Siberia and the Far East," - recalled Kvonbek, a former employee of the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee, and also a former pilot of one of the two American fighters that stormed the Sukhaya Rechka airfield in 1950.

The former stormtrooper talks about the weather in Siberia and the Far East, not in Korea. According to the commander of the 64th Aviation Corps at that time, now deceased, Lieutenant General Georgy Lobov and former pilot of the 821st Aviation Regiment V. Zabelin, “the Americans saw perfectly well where they were flying. We flew 100 kilometers from our border with Korea."

This is not the only mystery of those events. The archival documents of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR speak only of Soviet aircraft crashed and damaged as a result of a surprise attack. And not a word about human losses.

In the list of monuments of the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai number 106 is the “massive unmarked grave of the pilots” who died repelling American bombers in 1950." It also states that the grave is located near the village of Perevoznoye, the former territory of the military town of Sukhaya Rechka.

It is strange, of course, that the grave is unmarked. It’s strange that the military archives are silent about her. Note that the planes didn't even take off. They were driven from other regions and destroyed here. What was behind the secrets and betrayal of his people?

Combat aircraft of a potential enemy made systematic flights near Soviet cities and military bases. Although the USSR did not officially participate in the war, there were armed clashes. But this was rare. Probably, Soviet military units had treacherous orders not to return fire. Otherwise How can we explain the defeat of 103 combat aircraft at our airfields?
On the night of June 26, 1950 In international waters, South Korean warships fired at the cable ship Plastun, which was part of the 5th Navy of the USSR (now the Pacific Fleet), as a result of which the commander of the ship, Lieutenant Commander Kolesnikov, was killed. Some of the crew members were injured. The enemy retreated only after return fire was opened.
September 4, 1950 year to monitor the actions of an unidentified destroyer that approached the port at a distance of 26 kilometers Dalny (formerly Port Arthur), [ - now this is the Chinese city of WUDALIANCHI] The crew of the Soviet A-20Zh Boston reconnaissance aircraft, Senior Lieutenant Konstantin Korpaev, was alerted. He was accompanied by two of our fighters. On the way to the goal Soviet planes were attacked immediately by 11 American fighters . As a result of a short air battle, the Boston caught fire and fell into the ocean. All three members of his crew were killed.

Units and formations of the Soviet Armed Forces in those parts were in constant tension. Alarms and orders for immediate dispersal followed one after another. October 7, 1950 This is exactly what came to the 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 190th Fighter Aviation Division, armed with old American piston Kingcobras, received under Lend-Lease during the Great Patriotic War. The pilots had to urgently fly to the field airfield of the Pacific Fleet Sukhaya Rechka in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai, 100 kilometers from the Soviet-Korean border. By the morning of October 8, all three squadrons of the regiment were already in their new location. Then something almost incredible began.

What happened next was what should be called a BETRAYAL of the interests of one’s people, a betrayal of the peoples of the USSR. How to understand the actions of the General Staff of the USSR Ministry of Defense when THREE combat squadrons of a regiment are urgently transferred and then these squadron of the 821st air regiment were destroyed by our enemy the USA?

On Sunday October 8, 1950 at 16:17 local time, two jet planes suddenly appeared over Sukhaya Rechka. In a low-level flight they passed over the airfield, then turned around and opened fire. Before anyone could understand anything, six Soviet planes were damaged and one burned out. There is not a word in the archival documents about whether there were any killed or wounded in the 821st Air Regiment.

I believe that not two fighters, but much more, bombed military units that had just changed their location. They were driven closer to the border by the Soviet leadership and subjected to complete destruction.

October 8, 1950 It was Sunday. Residents of the surrounding villages were relaxing at the seaside, The Sukhaya Rechka field airfield lived according to a weekend schedule. For the exercises, Po-2 air spotters and Kingcobra piston fighters were relocated to it. There were about 20 planes in total, standing in an orderly line near the runway.

From the memoirs of a fireman:

• - And I know, son, that the Americans stormed our radar site once, around 1950.


• - What are you talking about, grandfather, there wasn’t even a war here. The Americans definitely fought in Korea, but for them to come and attack us like that - this can't happen.


• - It very well may. It's not always empty here like it was now. There were airplanes before the war, and there were airplanes during the war and after. During the war, they say, even an American bomber landed here, shot down. There were propeller-driven fighters at the radiodrome, as well as “maize” fighters, and when it became too small for jet fighters, then it was abandoned. So, sometimes in the summer helicopters fly from Nezhinka and Sukhodol. They'll arrive in May, you'll see for yourself.

Here are other memories:

Sukhaya Rechka is a toponymic, conventional term. In fact, the airfield was located between villages of Perevoznaya and Kedrovaya station, Khasan region. Enough from the stadium that behind the school on Perevoznaya, walk 400 meters and the first signs of the airfield will appear.
The characteristic elongated tin shields with round holes on the fences of houses in the surrounding villages are also echoes of that airfield.

Only on October 2, 1964, when the Cold War broke out around Cuba, did the population of the USSR receive some information about Sukhaya Rechka.

American pilots, apparently “mindful of allied relations,” often flew over the ships and bases of the Pacific Fleet. From the moment of Japanese surrender until the end of 1950. was recorded 46 incidents involving 63 American aircraft of various types. Sometimes the anti-aircraft gunners opened barrage fire and fighters took to the air. The first air battle took place in 1945. over the territory of Korea, when four of our Airacobras intercepted an American B-29 bomber and, after firing at it, landed it at the Hamhung airfield, where at that time Soviet aviation, which had recently ended the war with Japan, was based.

Gradually, with changes in foreign policy, random flights turned into systematic reconnaissance flights, and the air war flared up in earnest, reaching its climax in the 50s. So in May 1950, an air battle broke out between American F-51 Mustangs and Soviet La-11s over the Chukotka Uelkal airfield. as a result of which the pilot Captain S. Efremov knocked out one Mustang, but he himself, having received damage, barely made it to the airfield.

I was born in Chukotka. My parents came to Chukotka at this time when they were young. But we have never heard anything like that about the fact that there were battles over Chukotka.

The target of the war is Alaska?

According to various sources, the Americans made from 800 to 1000 sorties per day. It was a real war. For what? What goals were pursued? and what happened as a result that we don’t know?

Maybe it was at this time that the Americans recaptured Alaska from us, which they now present to us as having been sold in ancient times. Why did the Americans spend a lot of money on 800 flights a day? This is a lot of money! There was a war going on. About which we know nothing. What are they hiding from us? What don't we know? Why was the war in the Far East fought? Why did the Americans bomb our Siberia? Until now, video materials about the bombed cities of Siberia are hidden and destroyed on the Internet.