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The Petlyakov Pe-2 - Stalin's Successful Red Air Force Light Bomber (Hardcover)
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The Petlyakov Pe-2 - Stalin's Successful Red Air Force Light Bomber (Hardcover)
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During the Second World War, the Soviet Union's Petlyakov Pe-2
Peshka dive-bomber was unique in that it was as fast as most
fighter aircraft. This was in a period when it was considered by
the RAF that it was impossible for monoplane aircraft to conduct
vertical bombing with any degree of success. During the war the
Pe-2 was the principal dive- and light-bomber of Russia's air power
across the vast Eastern Front and it continued in service until the
early 1950s with the air forces of the Warsaw Pact countries and
Yugoslavia. Conceived by a team of top aircraft designers whom
Stalin had incarcerated in a prison camp on trumped-up political
charges, the Pe-2 had originally been designed as a high-altitude
twin-engine fighter plane, but, due to the outstanding success of
the German Stukas in the Blitzkrieg, its role was quickly changed
to that of a fast dive-bomber. The Pe-2 arrived in service around
the time of the German attack on its hitherto ally. Although only a
handful had reached front line units by the start of Operation
Barbarossa in June 1941, the Pe-2 soon became the main dive-bomber
in both the Soviet VVS and Naval service. Mass production, by
factories hastily moved back beyond the front, meant that numbers
increased rapidly, and more than 11,000 of the type, including many
variants, were built up to 1945. The Peshka became the mainstay of
the Soviet counter-offensive that ultimately resulted in the fall
of Berlin. Pe-2s also led the way in the brief but annihilating
Manchurian campaign against Japan in the closing days of the war in
1945. Using official sources, including the official Pe-2 handbook,
and numerous colour and black-and-white photographs made available
to the author from both official and private sources and
collections, this book is the definitive record of the Pe-2 - the
dive-bomber supreme!
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