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Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 015 - Soviet Aces of World War 2

By Hugh Morgan

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
1997
ISBN
9781855326323, 1855326329
Open Library ID
OL22573696M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23339413 bytes)
Pages
95\95
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Although initially equiped with very poor aircraft and robbed of effective leadership, due as much to Stalins purges in the late 1930s as to the efforts of the Luftwaffe, Soviet fighter pilots soon turned the tables through the use of 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 Yak-1/3. The later Yaks and Lavochkins were easily superior to the Bf 109 and Fw 190 at low-level, the favoured «killing field» of pilots like Khozedub and Poryshkin, both of whom finished with higher scores than the leading pilots of the West. This volume aims to dispel many of the myths about combat on the Eastern Front.

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