The Bell P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra Fighters: Soviet Service During World War II

by Dmitriy Komissarov, Sergey Komissarov, Yefim Gordon

Under the Lend-Lease agreement with the US during WWII, the Soviet Union received large quantities of war materiel, including many aircraft; the Bell P-39 Airacobra takes a special place among them. The P-39 was dismissed as hardly suitable for combat both by the US and England, who turned it over in large numbers to the USSR. Soviet pilots had different views, though, and achieved excellent results while flying the type; more than twenty Soviet aces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764356801
• ISBN13: 9780764356803
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 11.2"