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MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War

By Istvan Toperczer , Iain Wyllie

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781841761626, 1841761621
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6784132 bytes)
Series
Combat Aircraft 25
Pages
96\96
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
Aviation;Vietnam War

Description

The erstwhile enemy of the USAF and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting force that more than held its own over the skies of North Vietnam. Flying Soviet fighters like the MiG-17, and -19, the VPAF produced over a dozen aces, whilst the Americans managed just two pilots and three navigators in the same period.

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