A Mig 15 To Freedom
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Author | : No Kum-Sok |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2007-04-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786431067 |
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On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the most advanced Soviet-built fighter plane of the era, piloted by Senior Lieutenant No Kum-Sok, a 21-year-old North Korean Air Force officer. Once he landed, Lieutenant No found that his mother had escaped to the South two years earlier, and they were soon reunited. At his request, No came to the United States and became a U.S. citizen. His story provides a unique insight into how North Korea conducted the Korean War and how he came to the decision to leave his homeland.
Author | : Blaine Harden |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1447253361 |
Download The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A non-fiction thriller by international bestselling author Blaine Harden (Escape from Camp 14) that explores the worlds most repressive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the Korean War ended, No Kum Sok met Kim Il Sung, who congratulated him for his flying skill and his courage. A few months later, No Kum Sok stole a Soviet-made MiG-15 and flew it to a US airfield in South Korea. Beginning with the arbitrary division of Korea in 1945 and ending two months after the shaky armistice that halted combat in the Korean War, The Great Leader & the Fighter Pilot is an ambitious and gripping book which digs deeply into the character of the Kim family dictatorship. At once an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state, it explains why North Korea remains so isolated, why it created and maintains a vast gulag of concentration camps, and why it is still so angry at the western world.
Author | : Alexander Zuyev |
Publisher | : Grand Central Pub |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1993-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780446364980 |
Download Fulcrum Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Soviet pilot recounts his audacious defection in a hijacked MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet and reveals the secrets behind the 1983 shooting of Korean Airlines flight 007, Soviet military espionage, American POWs in the Soviet Union, and other issues. Reprint.
Author | : John Barron |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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An account of the defection of a Soviet pilot who escaped to the West in Russia's most advanced secret fighter plane.
Author | : Walter J. Boyne |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0765310384 |
Download Operation Iraqi Freedom Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Weapons of Desert Storm" presentsan informative look into the first war of the 21st century.
Author | : Wayne Thompson |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 1997-07 |
Genre | : Korean War, 1950-1953 |
ISBN | : 0788140094 |
Download Within Limits Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.
Author | : Douglas C. Dildy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780963211 |
Download F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN. Reluctantly, Josef Stalin agreed to provide the requisite air cover, introducing the superior swept-wing MiG-15 to counter the American's straight-wing F-80 jets. This in turn prompted the USAF to deploy its very best – the F-86A Sabre – to counter this threat. Thus began a two-and-a-half-year struggle in the skies known as “MiG Alley.” In this period, the unrelenting campaign for aerial superiority witnessed the introduction of successive models of these two revolutionary jets into combat. This meticulously researched study not only provides technical descriptions of the two types and their improved variants, complete with a “fighter pilot's assessment” of these aircraft, but also chronicles the entire scope of their aerial duel in “MiG Alley” by employing the recollections of the surviving combatants – including Russian, Chinese, and North Korean pilots – who participated.
Author | : Tony Holmes |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782006710 |
Download US Marine Corps and RAAF Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Some 84 of the 250 Hornets committed by Central Command to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) proudly bore MARINE titling on their rear fuselages. A further 14 were marked with the distinctive kangaroo roundel of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The exploits achieved by the units that flew these jets into combat is detailed in this volume, the third of three titles published in the Combat Aircraft series on what has been dubbed by many TACAIR insiders the 'Hornet's War'. Although the bulk of this book deals with the major hostilities phase of OIF I, which ran from 20 March to 20 April 2003, the decade of pre-war OSW missions and ongoing post-war OIF II operations are also covered in significant detail from the Marine Corps perspective. Profusely illustrated with rare frontline photography and more than 30 specially commissioned colour artworks, this book also features the combat experiences of 24 pilots and Weapons Systems Officers.
Author | : Philip Jowett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782001255 |
Download Finland at War 1939–45 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939–40, and once again in 1941–44, the armies raised by Finland – a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the world by their effective resistance. At the end of both these campaigns – the Winter War, and the Continuation War – the fiercely patriotic defiance of vastly stronger Soviet forces by Marshal Mannerheim's soldiers won their country a unique prize: although forced to accept harsh terms, Finland was never occupied by the Red Army, and retained its independence. This book explains and illustrates, for the first time in English, the organization, uniforms, equipment and tactics of Finland's defenders.
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428990488 |
Download Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.