Description: Collector Bookstore 724 Delaware Street Leavenworth, KS 66048 Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration. CAS-2005-2915239606-X4 Soviet Fighters 1939-1951 by Herbert Leonard ISBN:9782915239607 Book Title:Encyclopedia of Soviet Fighters 1939-1951 Author:Herbert Leonard Binding:Hard Cover Copyright:2005 Pages:208 Size:9.25 x 12.5 in. In the spring of 1938, Stalin presided over a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party which gave its findings on the state of the Soviet aircraft industry. He was assisted by members of the Presidium, the Narkomavprom, the Glavaviaprom, etc. Russian "fighters" were on the agenda seeing that the aircraft sent to Spain in support of the Republican cause against the Nationalists were being given a hammering by their German counterparts in the Condor Legion. Up until then, the Polikarpov I-15 (sesquiplane) and I-16 (monoplane) fighters had won air superiority over anything that was flying around in the Spanish skies; they had also got themselves a serious reputation, as much for their speed and manoeuvrability, as for their firepower. But the advent of new German fighters on the scene in 1937 upset all this. The Soviet planes were outclassed, and Polikarpov's I-16 and Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109B were compared at length during this meeting. This book offers an exhaustive coverage, by chronological order which is one of its original features every single Soviet fighter of the period, from obscure projects which did no go off the drawing table, to the best known mass-produced models. (Categorical generated 2024-11-12) ce0315503d9c4d47bf408a7366cfe7d2
Price: 44.95 USD
Location: Leavenworth, Kansas
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publication Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Industry: Militaria
