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Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces
ISBN: 9781846039812 | 1846039819
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Osprey Pub Co
Pub. Date: 5/25/2010
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The I-15, I-16 and I-153 fighters were the world's first mass-produced fighters. Some 17,000 Polikarpovs had been manufactured by the time production ceased in 1941. They served with the Republicans in the Spain, the Chinese against Japan in 193738, and the Soviets against both Japan in the Nomonhan Incident and Finland during the Winter War. By 1941, more than 20 Soviet pilots had made ace in Polikarpovs, and many more attained that status during the first months of the German invasion. Though thoroughly outclassed, the Polikarpov was the backbone of the Soviet air force during the early months of the war in the east, and continued to serve, as training aircraft and as frontline fighters, some right through to 1945.
| Introduction | p. 6 |
| Spanish Civil War | p. 16 |
| Swallows Over China | p. 33 |
| Khalkhin Gol | p. 42 |
| Winter War | p. 62 |
| Great Patriotic War | p. 68 |
| Appendices | p. 89 |
| Colour Plates Commentary | p. 91 |
| Index | p. 95 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Mikhail Maslov is a certified aviation engineer and an employee of the N E Zhukovsky Memorial Museum. He has written a number of articles and books on the history of Russian and Soviet aviation, including the monographs The I-16 Fighter, The I-15 Fighter, The I-15bis Fighter and The I-153 Fighter.
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