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MiG Alley

By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN
9781472836069, 9781472836083, 9781472836090, 9781472836052
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7730817 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-07-31 05:10:50

Description

Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened.Packed with first-hand accounts and covering the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, MiG Alley brings the war vividly to life and the record is finally set straight on a number of popular fabrications. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.

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