The Red Air Force at War: Air Combat Over the Eastern Front & Korea (Hardback)
A Soviet Fighter Pilot Remembers
Aviation Russia & the Eastern Front Aviation in WWII Aviation Memoirs Korean War
Imprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781844157358
Published: 21st August 2008
Last Released: 5th August 2008
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Sergei Kramarenko was a lucky man. As a Soviet fighter pilot, an ace, he fought in two wars - first against the Luftwaffe, then the US Air Force - and survived. This is his story. On the Eastern Front in the bitter conflict with the Germans, he duelled with Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s. Then, in Korea, flying a MiG-15, he came up against the Americans, the British and the Australians, in the first fighter-against-fighter clashes of the jet age. His accounts of combat against the F-86 Sabres, F-84 Thunderjets and Gloster Meteors are among the most vivid and remarkable of his long career. In over ten years of as a front-line fighter pilot he took part in a revolution in the development of combat flying. His candid, intensely personal and unflinching account gives a rare inside view of life in the Red Air Force.
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