Soviet Aces of World War 2

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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.

Table of Contents

The Making of a Fighter Ace/Evolution of VVS Fighter Aviation 1941-45/Fighter Aircraft and their Aces/The Leading Aces/Appendices

Product details

Published Oct 15 1997
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 100
ISBN 9781855326323
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 100 b/w; 40 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Aircraft of the Aces
Short code ACE 15
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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John Weal

John Weal is Osprey's primary Luftwaffe author and…

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