Soviet Aces of World War 2

Soviet Aces of World War 2
Author: Hugh Morgan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2013-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472800575

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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.


Soviet Aces of World War 2
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Hugh Morgan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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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
Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2
Language: en
Pages: 97
Authors: George Mellinger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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By the end of 1941 the Soviet Union was near collapse and its air force almost annihilated, leaving large numbers of surviving pilots with no aircraft to fly. T
Soviet Hurricane Aces of World War 2
Language: en
Pages: 155
Authors: Yuriy Rybin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union found itself desperate
Yakovlev Aces of World War 2
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: George Mellinger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Yak-1 entered Soviet service in 1941, one of three modern types of aircraft accepted for production just prior to the German invasion of the USSR. Despite i
Russian Aces of World War 1
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Victor Kulikov
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling th