Author : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Release : 2019-11-28
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis MiG Alley by : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Download or read book MiG Alley written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver. This book was released on 2019-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. Packed with first-hand accounts and covering the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, MiG Alley brings the war vividly to life and the record is finally set straight on a number of popular fabrications. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.