Wings Over Ogaden: The Ethiopian-Somali War, 1978-1979

by Tom Cooper

With Ethiopia in disarray following a period of severe internal unrest and the spread of insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray, Ethiopia and its armed forces should have offered little opposition to well-equipped Somali armed forces which were unleashed to capture Ogaden, in July 1977. However, excellently trained pilots of the Ethiopian Air Force took full advantage of their US-made equipment, primarily their few brand-new Northrop F-5E Tiger II fighter-bombers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909982385
• ISBN13: 9781909982383
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.2" x 11.5"