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MiG Alley : The US Air Force in Korea, 1950–53 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver; Col (Ret.) Walter J. Boyne(Foreword) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Titled after the wartime nickname for the part of North Korea that was the epicenter of a bitter struggle for air superiority over the Korean Peninsula, MiG Alley offers an in-depth analysis of the US Air Force's war in Korea, packed with interesting and exciting personal stories based on first-person testimony from both American and Soviet sources. Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, amongst other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. From that point onwards, a very different story began to emerge. Far from decisive American victories over an unsophisticated opponent, the aerial battles of the Korean War were, at least in the early years, evenly matched affairs, fought to an approximate 1:1 victory-loss ratio. Though the Soviet victories declined over the following year

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Author

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver; Col (Ret.) Walter J. Boyne(Foreword)

Publisher

Osprey Publishing : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472836076

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.4 / 5 (375 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14