MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War: No. 25 (Combat Aircraft) - Softcover

Toperczer, István

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841761621 ISBN 13: 9781841761626

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

The Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) grew from an ill-organized rabble to a highly effective fighing force that held its own over the skies of North Vietnam. This title charts the exploits of the VPAF in detail.

About this title

About the Author:

István Toperczer is a flight surgeon with the Hungarian Air Force. In his spare time, he has become one of the few individuals from outside Vietnam to be given open access to the files of the Vietnamese People's Air Force. He has made several visits to Hanoi, and other Vietnamese cities, in the past five years, and has interviewed many of the leading aces from the war years. Mark Styling has illustrated several books in both the Aces and Combat Aircraft series. Since switching mediums from airbrush to Mac art he has produced some of the best profiles Osprey has ever used. Iain Wyllie is one of Britain's leading cover artists. Since becoming a full-time aviation artist he has created over 40 cover artworks for Osprey's hugely successful Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series.

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841761621
• ISBN 13: 9781841761626
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Wyllie Iain