32 GIAP history book vol.1
hello dear readers :)
With your permission I would like to bring to your attention the fact that a new book has appeared in mother-language of VVS- in Russian. Book dedicated to one of the famous regiments in VVS - 32 GIAP, where many famous VVS aces has served. Here you are the cover: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...ux/32GIAPS.jpg Title "The pages of history of 32 Guards figher regiment" The book is by Sergei Isaev as much I know he spent much of his time preparing material for the book. Meeting the veterans of the regiment and spending hours in archives. This is the first volume dedicated to gap of the history 1941-1967. The second volume will follow. The size of the book is A4, hard binding, 220 pages, more than 250 pictures and diagrams, 15 color profiles by M. Bykov. Attention !!! printed only 500 books!!!! Content of the 1 vol.: Forward by author Chapter 1: War Beginning: 1941-42 Becoming: June-July 1942 Sky of Stalingrad July combats September combats North-west direction. 1942-1943 Kalinin front North-west front Briansk front. 1943 Again North-west front. 1943-1944 Sky of Belorussia. 1944 Sky of Baltics. 1944-1945 Sky of Berlin. 1945 Chapter 2: After the war. 1945-1950 Chapter 3: Kubinka In 1940s In 1950s Mig-19 Air parades Mig-21 Chapter 4: Cuba. 1962-1963 Chapter 5: Kubinka 1963-1967 Appendix: 1. List of HSS within 32 GIAP 2. List of Commander of 32 GIAP 1941-67 3. List KIA within 32 GIAP 1941-1967 4. Aircrafts within 32 GIAP 1941-1967 5. Outcome of military service of 213 IAP (32 GIAP) in Cuba The book more than half is dedicated to WWII period. The book is distributed directly by author. The ones who wish to obtain this masterpiece of VVS history please contact directly the author at: giap-32@yandex.ru or me at: audrius.n@mail.lt NB! For picture lovers :) this book is not 100% for you! This book is worth for it's text 'cause most of war period pictures related to the 32 GIAP are known except few of La-7. Th postwar ones are less known. Some samples of pages from the book privided by author: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...page_14_th.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...page_77_th.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...age_160_th.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...age_192_th.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...title_2_th.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...title_4_th.jpg Happy reading! |
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Well we can only hope it will be picked up by a Western publisher and printed in English.
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Servus!
Audrius or anyone who knows. The 32 GvIAP seems to have been based at Kubinka post war flying with MiG-21. Was it this unit who was visited few times by the Finnish Air Force 31th squadron (Hävittäjälentolaivue 31) which also flew MiG-21? Soviet MiG-21s (and later -23 and -29) visited also Finland. Are these visits mentioned in the book? Regards, Kari |
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Looks great, indeed hopefully we'll see an English translation (or German, or French even).
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Hello,
please find the author's summary of the book. http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...horsummary.jpg The 2nd vol. will cover the period of 1967 -89 when the regiment was disassembled. Will describe the introduction of Mig-23C in VSS 'cause 32GIAP was the first to recieve those a/c. Participation in Afganistan and finally (unfortunately) the disassemble of regiment. |
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I noticed that this main unit claimed 518 enemy aircraft during the war, while reportedly losing only 95 aircraft in combat. This is a claim ratio of over 5:1. Is this a reasonable figure (comparable to other VVS Guards fighter divisions' achievements)?
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I thik this is not far from figures of other high scoring units (e.g. : 735 for 89 pilots, or 697 for 84 pilots,...)... Hope this can help, Kolya. |
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I am not familiar with this. Please repost your question on AIF forum. I almost sure you could get an answer over there. Sorry! |
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