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Author : Robert F. Dorr,Warren Thompson
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062158043
A stunning pictorial record from the personal photo archives of Korean War veterans. A detailed account of Allied air operations features dramatic, real-life combat stories that took place during the 1950 to 1953 war.
Author : Xiaoming Zhang
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1585443409
The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power. Xiaoming Zhang fills the gaps in the history of this conflict by basing his research in recently declassified Chinese and Russian archival materials. He also relies on interviews with Chinese participants in the air war over Korea. Zhang's findings challenge conventional wisdom as he compares kill ratios and performance by all sides involved in the war. Zhang also addresses the broader issues of the Korean War, such as how air power affected Beijing's decision to intervene. He touches on ground operations and truce negotiations during the conflict. Chinese leaders placed great emphasis on the supremacy of human will over modern weaponry, but they were far from oblivious to the advantages of the latter and to China's technological limitations. Developments in China's own air power were critical during this era. Zhang offers considerable materials on the training of Chinese aviators and the Soviet role in that training, on Soviet and Chinese air operations in Korea, and on diplomatic exchanges over Soviet military assistance to China. He probes the impact of the war on China's conception of the role of air power, arguing that it was not until the Gulf War of the early 1990s that Chinese leaders engaged in a broad reassessment of the strategy they adopted during the Korean War. Military historians and scholars interested in aviation and foreign affairs will find this volume of special interest. As a unique work that presents the Chinese point of view, it stands as both a complement and a corrective to previous accounts of the conflict. Xiaoming Zhang earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Iowa in 1994. He has had works published in various journals, including the Journal of Military History, which has twice selected him to receive the Moncado Prize for excellence in the writing of military history. Zhang currently resides in Montgomery, Alabama, where he teaches at the Air War College. Zhang's study is masterful in placing the Chinese air war in Korea in the context of China's development in the twentieth century. In addition to providing important new evidence on China's role in the Korean War, Zhang offers a particularly noteworthy analysis of Sino-Soviet relations during the early 1950s. William Stueck, Distinguished Research Professor of History, University of Georgia; author of The Korean War: An International History (1995) and Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (2002)
Author : Michael Napier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472844415
From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the air war over Korea. The Korean War holds a unique place in aviation history. It saw the first large-scale jet-versus-jet combat and it was the first military action of the Cold War, fought by both the newly independent United States Air Force and the recently formed Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. In a meticulously researched volume, former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier unravels the complex narrative of events, describing the course of operations in the air and the major campaigns of the land war. He examines in detail the air power of the major combatants, which included North and South Korea, the UK, Australia, Canada and South Africa as well as China, the USA and the USSR. Packed with stunning contemporary images and including first-hand combat reports, Korean Air War is a groundbreaking exploration of a much forgotten conflict, which nevertheless provided lessons about the organization and prosecution of modern aerial warfare that remain relevant through to the present day.
Author : Lt. Colonel Joseph R. Clark
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781645305194
F-86E Sabre vs. Russian MiG-15 Some Korean Air-to-Air War Tales Revisited By: Lt. Colonel Joseph R. Clark Since the Korean War ended in 1953, several books and articles have been published about the air-to-air battles between the American F-86s and Russian MiGs in the skies over North Korea and China. Some parts of some of the stories that appear in those publications are true, but many of them contain fantasies, exaggerations, and lies that are both preposterous and demeaning to the Air Force. Unfortunately, much of what survives in the west as the history of those epic air battles is found in those partially flawed publications.
Author : James T. Stewart
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Van Nostrand [1957]
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : WISC:89062158076
Collection of articles analyzing and describing the operation of U.S. airpower in the Korean conflict.
Author : Robert Frank Futrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033854832
Official U.S. Air Force history of the Korean War.
Author : Igor Seidov,Stuart Britton
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910294314
The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in pitched air battles. The analysis of the air war showed that the powerful United States Air Force and its allies were unable to achieve complete superiority in the air and were unable to fulfill all the tasks they'd been given. Soviet pilots and Soviet jet fighters, which were in no way inferior to their opponents and in certain respects were even superior to them, was the reason for this. The combat experience and new tactical aerial combat tactics, which were tested for the first time in the skies of Korea, have been eagerly studied and applied by modern air forces around the world today. This book fully discusses the Soviet participation in the Korean War and presents a view of this war from the opposite side, which is still not well known in the West from the multitude of publications by Western historians. The reason for this, of course, is the fact that Soviet records pertaining to the Korean War were for a long time highly classified, since Soviet air units were fighting in the skies of North Korea "incognito", so to speak or even more so to write about this was strictly forbidden in the Soviet Union right up to its ultimate collapse. The given work is in essence the first major work in the post-Soviet era. First published in a small edition in Russian in 1998, it was republished in Russia in 2007. For the first time, the Western reader can become acquainted with the most detailed and informative work existing on the course of the air war from the Soviet side, now in English language. The work rests primarily on the recollections of veterans of this war on the so-called 'Red' side - Soviet fighter pilots, who took direct part in this war on the side of North Korea. Their stories have been supplemented with an enormous amount of archival documents, as well as the work of Western historians. The author presents a literal day-by-day chronicle of the aerial combats and combat work of Soviet fighter regiments in the period between 1950 and 1953, and dedicates this work to all the men on both sides who fought and died in the Korean air war.
Author : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472836069
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.
Author : Richard Hallion
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817356583
The historiography of Korea's aerial war.
Author : Robert Frank Futrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UFL:31262044291416
Author : Jacob Neufeld,George M. Watson
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Paper, discusses paper as a material, the different manufacturing and processing techniques, historical uses, current uses, an explanation of the harmful effects on the environment, and how to reuse and recycle paper. Additionally, this title features a table of contents, glossary, index, color photographs, diagrams, recycling sidebars, statistics, and recommended websites for further exploration.
Author : Richard H. Kohn,Joseph P. Harahan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257536
Includes over 20 illustrations. In November 1981, Lt. Gen. Hans H. Driessnack, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, asked the Historical Program to assemble a small number of retired officers for a group oral history interview. General Driessnack believed that in reminiscing together, these officers would recall incidents and experiences that might otherwise go unrecorded; by exchanging ideas and questioning each other—in effect, interviewing each other—they would recall material that would be of interest and importance to the Air Force today. General Driessnack also suggested selecting retired officers from the senior statesman conference, a gathering every spring at which retired four-star generals are briefed on Air Force issues and then discuss them with contemporary Air Force leaders. The result is the following interview. The four participants—Gen. James Ferguson, Gen. Robert M. Lee, Gen. William W. Momyer, and Lt. Gen. Elwood R. “Pete” Quesada—gathered on May 21, 1982, around a table in the Vandenberg room at the Bolling Air Force Base Officers’ Club. For approximately two and one half hours they responded to questions sent to them earlier and discussed air superiority in World War II and Korea. Their discussions ranged far and wide: flying in the pre-World War II Army Air Corps, campaigning in North Africa and Western Europe in World War II, planning and participating in the Normandy invasion, using secret intelligence supplied by Ultra, struggling to codify tactical air doctrine in the post-war years, fighting the air battle in Korea, and thinking about the general problem of air superiority throughout their careers. This collective interview is not history but the source material on which history rests; it is a memoir, a first-hand account by air leaders who flew, fought, and commanded tactical air forces in combat.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050504458
United States Air Force in Korea. Korean War Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Traces the part played by the Far East Air Forces (FEAF) Bomber Command in the Korean War. FEAF used the B-29 as its workhorse, marking the last war this remarkable plane flew.
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062158068
In many ways Korea was like no other war of the 20th century. It was a bloody conflict that was to last for three years. . History of air campaigns of the Korean War including sections on battles of Pusan and Yalu.
Author : John R. Bruning
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 1574888412
Exciting accounts of a key crossroads in military aviation history