Pyongyang, August 2 (KCNA) -- One day in the Fatherland Liberation War period, President Kim Il Sung ordered commanding officers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to take measures to shoot down enemy planes with small arms since the country lacked anti-aircraft arms.

He told them rifles had been used to shoot down enemy planes during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and that such weapons as light and heavy machine guns were enough for aircraft hunting.

He issued an order of the KPA Supreme Commander "On Organizing Aircraft-Hunting Teams" in late December Juche 39 (1950). The order required most KPA units to launch aircraft-hunting activities.

Units of the KPA and People's Security Forces formed aircraft-hunting teams to bring many planes down with rifles, light and heavy machine guns and anti-tank guns.

They shot down nearly 3,000 planes in two years.

The aircraft-hunting activities foiled the U.S. "air supremacy" and "air strategy" and greatly contributed to winning the war.