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Soviet Aces of World War 2

By John Weal , Hugh Morgan

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781855326323, 1855326329
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19593778 bytes)
Series
Aircraft of the Aces 15
Pages
100\95
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
Aviation;World War 2;History;War;World War II;Avia

Description

No single volume in English has ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area, but now that restrictions have relaxed in the former Soviet Union, records of the deeds of the elite pilots of the various Soviet Air Forces are coming to light. Although initially equipped with very poor aircraft, and robbed of effective leadership thanks as much to Stalin's purges in the late 1930s as to the efforts of the Luftwaffe, Soviet fighter pilots soon turned the tables through the use of both lend-lease aircraft like the Hurricane, Spitfire, P-39 and P-40, and home-grown machines like the MiG-3, LaGG-3/5, Lavochkin La-5/7/9 and the Yak-1/3.

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