Talk:101st Home Air Defence Fighter Wing
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Post WWII events edit
> Many of the unit's pilots served in the post-war Hungarian (communist) air force. Most were imprisoned after show trials, and released in the 1950s.
That is not exactly correct. Some of them were hanged by the communists, related to Yak-9P fighter crashes. Those old soviet piston fighters, serving with HunAf from late 1948, had a manually cranked engine oil pump lever under the seat, for pre-flight lubrication. Its role was omitted from the hungarian translation of original russian pilot manual, so several Yak-9s suffered engine seizure right after take-off, with disastrous results. Rather then blame the Moscow-made translation, ex-Pumas serving with post-WWII HunAF were declared "imperialist saboteurs" and convicted. One of them, Lajos "Drumi" Toth, former WWII ace was hanged by the communist regime. 87.97.98.159 (talk) 19:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)