Moscow Training Vietnam Pilots
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright)
MOSCOW, August 29.
Russia’s oldest Air Force academy has just completed training a group of North Vietnamese pilots and received a new batch, Moscow newspapers reported yesterday.
The newspapers featured photographs of Hanoi recruits training on supersonic MiG jets. One picture showed a large group of trainees on the march.
The display was the first official disclosure that North Vietnamese pilots were being trained in Russia, but no details or the numbers of men involved were given. “Pravda” said the North Vietnamese were being trained by Second World War aces “to strike the enemy at any altitude and in any weather.”
Another newspaper described a high-altitude training flight in which Russian flyers took the role of American raiders. The newspaper said training with guided missile
carriers was included in the course, and quoted a Russian instructor as saying the North Vietnamese worked hard. The students were so keen that they gave up rest days to continue their training!
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31151, 30 August 1966, Page 17
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