MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War (Combat Aircraft) (Osprey Combat Aircraft, #25)

by Istvan Toperczer

Iain Wyllie (Illustrator)

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The erstwhile enemy of the Usaf and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (Vpaf) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting force that more than held its own over the skies of North Vietnam. Flying Soviet fighters like the MiG-17, and -19, the Vpaf produced over a dozen aces, whilst the Americans managed just two pilots and three navigators in the same period.
  • ISBN10 1782006869
  • ISBN13 9781782006862
  • Publish Date 20 November 2012 (first published 28 September 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Osprey Publishing