Operation Moolah
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Operation Moolah was a United States Air Force effort during the Korean War to obtain through defection a fully capable MiG-15 jet fighter, which was at the time the Soviet Union's best fighter. Commu
MiG-15 in the Korean War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Gun camera photo of a MiG-15 being attacked by a USAF fighter.
MiG-15 delivered by No Kum-Sok, a defecting North Korean pilot to the US Air Force
SFC Furl A. Krebs loads an M16A1 cluster adapter at the FEC (Far Eastern Command) Printing Plant, Yokohama, Japan. The bomb type adapter will contain 22,500 psychological warfare leaflets sized 5 by 8 inches (130 mm × 200 mm).
Franciszek Jarecki
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Franciszek Jarecki was a pilot in the Polish Air Force, who became famous in early 1953 when he escaped Soviet-controlled Poland in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet, one of the best Soviet planes at that
Operation Moolah
…offer would appeal to airmen from their satellite countries in the Warsaw Bloc. The leaflets used in Operation Moolah carried the photo of Lieutenant Franciszek Jarecki, who had flown his Lim2 (license version of MiG 15bis) from Poland to political asylum in Denmark in March 1953. Early in the morning on September 21…
Franciszek Jarecki
Frank Jarecki's flightsuit on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum