MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War
Istvan Toperczer, Iain Wyllie
The erstwhile enemy of the USAF and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting force that more than held its own over the skies of North Vietnam. Flying Soviet fighters like the MiG-17, and -19, the VPAF produced over a dozen aces, whilst the Americans managed just two pilots and three navigators in the same period.
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Year:
2001
Publisher:
Osprey Publishing
Language:
english
Pages:
96
ISBN 10:
1841761621
ISBN 13:
9781841761626
Series:
Combat Aircraft 25
File:
PDF, 6.47 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001