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Approximately two months after the end of hostilities, he defected to South Korea in a MiG-15 aircraft, and was subsequently granted political asylum in the United States. [5] He then adopted the English name Kenneth H. Rowe .
Jan 5, 2023 · A veteran of more than 100 combat flights, the 21-year-old pilot climbed out of his silver swept-wing plane, which was emblazoned with a red star and bristling with machine guns, as...
Born in Arizona, Ken Rowe's life seems to have been shaped and forged by the rugged beauty, culture and history of his native land. Influenced by drawing and painting with his mother, along with his love of the outdoors, Ken's first introduction to wildlife art was in the field of taxidermy.
Kenneth Rowe, who died in 2022, was a former North Korean Air Force pilot who defected to the U.S. in 1953 with a MiG-15 fighter jet. He became an Embry-Riddle professor and wrote a memoir of his escape.
Jan 9, 2023 · When Rowe died at 90 on December 26 at his home in Daytona Beach, Florida, he was remembered for having handed America an intelligence bonanza with his headline-making flight in an MIG-15bis, a ...
Jan 6, 2023 · Kenneth Rowe, who piloted North Korean warplane to freedom, dies at 90. Mr. Rowe, then known as No Kum-Sok, pretended to be a loyal fighter for North Korea during the Korean War. All the...
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Mar 13, 2015 · Kenneth Rowe is an 83-year-old retired engineer from Daytona Beach, Florida. No Kum Sok is the name he was born with in northern Korea. But going back to 1943, when No was an elementary school student, he went by the Japanese name of Okamura Kyoshi.
