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Red Eagles: The USAF's Cold War Secret Squadon (General Aviation)
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Steve Davies
From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics.
Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepare...more
Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepare...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
May 3rd 2011
by Osprey Publishing
(first published August 15th 2008)
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While this book is interesting, the technical data could have been contained in a longish article. On the other hand, it is easy to speed read your way through, skipping biographical and other details not essential to the technical content.
Thoroughly researched; details the successes and failures of the USAF's program to expose US pilots to actual MiGs. The author isn't afraid to criticize key players if he believes that they made bad decisions.
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