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• catalog abstract ""During its titanic military struggle with Germany, the Soviet Union received a major boost with the arrival and deployment of nearly 5,000 Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter planes, courtesy of America's Lend-Lease program. The impact was dramatic, as the Soviets quickly adapted the planes into a devastatingly lethal force. Dmitriy Loza's account, admirably translated and edited by James Gebhardt, vividly recreates the battle campaigns of this odd coupling of capitalist planes and Marxist pilots and shines a bright light on a little known part of the air war on the Eastern Front. The P-39 proved to be the right plane at the right time for a beleaguered Red Air Force. Built for short range and relatively low altitudes, the P-39 was equipped with a powerful engine and weapons that enabled it to out-duel and eventually dominate the Luftwaffe from the Caucasus foothills to Berlin. Focusing on the combat operations and daily life of one unit - the 9th Guards Fighter Division - Loza refutes the myth that the P-39 was used mainly as a "tank buster" or "flying artillery." Instead, its primary mission was to protect Red Army operations from aerial attacks by the enemy. So despite the occasional strafing of trains, truck convoys, and troops, most P-39 operations involved attacks on Luftwaffe bombers and dogfights with their fighter escorts."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12377905.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""During its titanic military struggle with Germany, the Soviet Union received a major boost with the arrival and deployment of nearly 5,000 Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter planes, courtesy of America's Lend-Lease program. The impact was dramatic, as the Soviets quickly adapted the planes into a devastatingly lethal force. Dmitriy Loza's account, admirably translated and edited by James Gebhardt, vividly recreates the battle campaigns of this odd coupling of capitalist planes and Marxist pilots and shines a bright light on a little known part of the air war on the Eastern Front. The P-39 proved to be the right plane at the right time for a beleaguered Red Air Force. Built for short range and relatively low altitudes, the P-39 was equipped with a powerful engine and weapons that enabled it to out-duel and eventually dominate the Luftwaffe from the Caucasus foothills to Berlin. Focusing on the combat operations and daily life of one unit - the 9th Guards Fighter Division - Loza refutes the myth that the P-39 was used mainly as a "tank buster" or "flying artillery." Instead, its primary mission was to protect Red Army operations from aerial attacks by the enemy. So despite the occasional strafing of trains, truck convoys, and troops, most P-39 operations involved attacks on Luftwaffe bombers and dogfights with their fighter escorts."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Foreword / Colonel Frank Borman -- Introduction / Von Hardesty -- August 1942 to May 1943 -- Transition Training -- The Skies of the Kuban -- On the Left Wing of the Soviet-German Front -- First Air Battles -- The New Methods Win Out -- The Sky Was Ablaze -- Wild Vadim -- Pass the Experience Along -- Combat Successes and Losses -- First Priority--the Aircraft -- Logistical Support -- Command and Control of Fighters -- Navigational Support -- August to December 1943 -- A Wingman's Feat -- You Won't Get Away! -- Over the Molochnaya River -- Covering an Amphibious Landing -- A Costly Mistake -- Adjusting Artillery Fire -- More Battles -- Free Hunting -- Over the Perekop -- Relocation to New Airfields -- The Airfield--the Aviators' Home -- Documents Tell the Story -- May 1944 to May 1945 -- Three Years Later -- He Flared Like a Comet -- The Chase -- Look, See, Find -- At the Western Border -- A Gift from the Bell Factory -- Flights from the Autobahn -- Mistletoe -- The Airacobra as Shturmovik -- The Last Combat Sorties -- Order of the People's Commissar of Defense -- Soviet Aces Who Flew the P-39 Airacobra -- Lineage of 216th (9th Guards) Fighter Division.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-359) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 369 p., [14] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Attack of the Airacobras.".
• catalog identifier "0700611401 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Attack of the Airacobras.".
• catalog isPartOf "Modern war studies".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng rus".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
• catalog relation "Attack of the Airacobras.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
• catalog subject "940.54/4947 21".
• catalog subject "Airacobra (Fighter plane)".
• catalog subject "D792.S65 L69 2002".
• catalog subject "Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡. Fighter Division, 216th History.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, Soviet.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories Soviet Union.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Colonel Frank Borman -- Introduction / Von Hardesty -- August 1942 to May 1943 -- Transition Training -- The Skies of the Kuban -- On the Left Wing of the Soviet-German Front -- First Air Battles -- The New Methods Win Out -- The Sky Was Ablaze -- Wild Vadim -- Pass the Experience Along -- Combat Successes and Losses -- First Priority--the Aircraft -- Logistical Support -- Command and Control of Fighters -- Navigational Support -- August to December 1943 -- A Wingman's Feat -- You Won't Get Away! -- Over the Molochnaya River -- Covering an Amphibious Landing -- A Costly Mistake -- Adjusting Artillery Fire -- More Battles -- Free Hunting -- Over the Perekop -- Relocation to New Airfields -- The Airfield--the Aviators' Home -- Documents Tell the Story -- May 1944 to May 1945 -- Three Years Later -- He Flared Like a Comet -- The Chase -- Look, See, Find -- At the Western Border -- A Gift from the Bell Factory -- Flights from the Autobahn -- Mistletoe -- The Airacobra as Shturmovik -- The Last Combat Sorties -- Order of the People's Commissar of Defense -- Soviet Aces Who Flew the P-39 Airacobra -- Lineage of 216th (9th Guards) Fighter Division.".
• catalog title "Attack of the Airacobras : Soviet aces, American P-39's and the air war against Germany / Dmitriy Loza ; translated and edited by James F. Gebhardt ; with an introduction by Von Hardesty.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".