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Red Eagles : America's secret MiGs / Steve Davies.
- Title
- Red Eagles : America's secret MiGs / Steve Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Steve, 1975-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Osprey Pub., 2008.
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Details
- Description
- 352 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I. Acquiring "The Assets" -- Ch. 1. HAVE MiGs, 1968- 69 -- Ch. 2. Genesis for rhe Red Eagles, 1972-77 -- Pt. 2. Laying the Ground Work -- Ch. 3. CONSTANT PEG and Tonopah, 1977-79 -- Ch. 4. Red Eagles' First Days and the Early MiGs -- Ch. 5. "Flogger" Arrives, 1980 -- Ch. 6. Gold Wings, 1981 -- Pt. 3. Expanded Exposures and Red Flag, 1982-85 -- Ch. 7. Fatalists, 1982 -- Ch. 8. Postai's Crash -- Ch. 9. Exposing the TAF, 1983 -- Ch. 10. 'The Air Force is Coming," 1984 -- Ch. 11. From Black to Gray, 1985 -- Pt. 4. Final Years, 1986-88 -- Ch. 12. Increasing Blue Air Exposures, 1986 -- Ch. 13. "Red Country," 1987 -- Ch. 14. Arrival Shows, 1988.
- ISBN
- 9781846033780 (hbk.)
- 1846033780 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 231885515
- SCSB-12378826
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library