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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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