Mig Alley - The Us Air Force in Korea, 1950-53

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, 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.>

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
• Assisted by: Col (Ret.) Walter J. Boyne (Foreword)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781472836083
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-3608-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; military history, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Aviation, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Warfare & defence, Korean War