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Bell P39 Airacobra and P63 Kingcobra Fighters: Soviet Service during World War II (Hardcover)
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Bell P39 Airacobra and P63 Kingcobra Fighters: Soviet Service during World War II (Hardcover)
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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 flew
the P-39. As air combat over the Russian front was conducted mostly
at low altitudes, the P-39 came into its own. Innovative tactics
and motivation, coupled with the P-39's sturdy construction and
adequate firepower, proved successful for the Soviets. The P-39 was
in Soviet service since 1942; nearly 5,000 were supplied and used
on the Soviet-German front, along with 2,400 P-63 Kingcobras, which
saw only limited action against Japan at the close of the war. This
detailed, illustrated history features many color side views and
previously unpublished photographs.
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