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Soviet Aces of World War 2

By John Weal , Hugh Morgan

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
Year
1997
ISBN
9781855326323, 1-85532-632-9
Open Library ID
OL22573696M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23032120 bytes)
Series
Aircraft of the Aces 015
Pages
95\95
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

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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