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Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea.(Book Review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 846 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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By Xiaoming Zhang. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2002. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Notes. Photographs. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 300. $30.95 ISBN: 1-58544-201-1

The son of a veteran of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and holder of a Ph.D. in history from the...

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...University of Iowa, Xlaoining Zhang offers a Chinese view of the air war over Korea. He used recently declassified Chinese and Soviet military documents and also interviewed a number of PLAAF veterans. Further, Zhang compared USAF records against those of the Chinese and Soviets in an attempt to discern the truth--a target often more elusive than either an F-86 or a MiG-15.

The Korean War played a critical role in the PLAAF's development. When the war began in June 1950, China...

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