[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work: P-39 Airacobra

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 12 Mar 2017 at 21:32, David Edsall wrote:

> The P-39 was also sent to the Soviet Union and saw combat there.

As far as I am aware, MOST P-39s ended up in Russia.
  
> One of their top aces, Pokryshkin, and his outfit flew it for some time. 
> His memoirs describe the introduction of the plane and its use.
> I´ll dig out his books and look it up, if anyone is interested.

I am very interested in such stories.

Ken W7EKB

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