New Russian book: Soviet GPW Fighter Aces 1941-1945

[Frank Olynyk]

Dénes,
This is volume one of three. It covers only Army aces with 10 or more victories. Volume two will cover Army aces with 5-9 victories. And volume 3 will cover the Naval aces.

Frank.

[kurlannaiskos]

for those of you that have the book...
does it have anything on Lydia Litvyak ?
depending on what sources you have she may be listed with as few as 8 kills and as many as 12.

if it does I may look into getting it.
that could be difficult here in the USA

[Pawel Burchard]

Mikhail, in general - does the available records also give the daytime of the combat/claim? My field of interest is battle of Kursk and it would be very hard to match Luftwaffe casualties (in many cases the daytime would be known) and VVS claims, without knowing the time of the combat from Russian side...

kind regards,
Pawel

[Nokose]

The sample pages that were shown at the beginning of the thread on the website didn't have the times just date, a/c type and location. Owl-99 did tell me that they were looking into the possible english translation awhile back. The mission times for claims and loss of the ace would be helpful.

[Pawel Burchard]

I was just wondering if this would be possible at all to know the daytimes, that is, if there was a standard to record such details in units files.

Pawel

[Frank Olynyk]

kurlannaiskos,

There are (at least) two Russian language bookstores in the US (both in Brooklyn, in fact) that carry the book. kniga.com lists the book at http://www.kniga.com/books/product.a...9&dept_id=1122
and ruskniga.com at http://www.ruskniga.com/sell.asp/Ite...ry/Books/sc/35
The price is about the same at both of them. Both take credit cards. Both have 800 numbers for use in the US and Canada; at the top of the page for kniga.com, and the very bottom for ruskniga. Neither can handle ISBNs. Both speak Russian and English, but unless you know Russian or can pronounce the title of the book, kniga.com may be hard to deal with; ruskniga might be easier to order from, since they show a product number (B55670).

Enjoy!

Frank.

[Nokose]

Mikhail Bykov has a revised version of his book coming out and co-authored by V.A. Anokhin. It seems to be in Russian only again but will cover all the Soviet fighter aces (WW2 against the German and the Japanese. Also the Korean War.) The title "Все Истребительные Авиаполки Сталина. Первая Полная". It consists of 944 pages but has only 1500 prints.

[Frank Olynyk]

Nokose,
I have a copy of the book you reference, obtained for me by Viktor Kulikov in Moscow. It is not a book about the aces. Rather it is short histories of all the fighter regiments (not sure if the naval units are present) going back to the late '30s, and extending to the '50s and the Korean War. A chronology, which seems to be about changes of assignment, and aircraft types. A list of commanders, with their dates. Various tables, whose headings I have not attempted to translate (my Russian is very poor, limited to transliterating Cyrillic, and a few obvious words). Occasional photos of commanders. I do not see a list of aces with each unit. ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9. Published by ЯУЗА, Moscow, 2014.

Enjoy!

Frank.

[Kari Lumppio]

Originally Posted by Frank Olynyk

...
I have a copy of the book you reference, obtained for me by Viktor Kulikov in Moscow. It is not a book about the aces. Rather it is short histories of all the fighter regiments (not sure if the naval units are present) ...

Hello!

The new book "Vsje istrebitelnye aviapolki stalina" does include the Soviet Naval (VMF) Air Force fighter units. From page 806 to page 844 (GPW period).


Cheers,
Kari

PS Bookshop Ruslania in Helsinki ( http://ruslania.com/ ) can deliver the Bykov books. Likely to all of Europe, too. Check their site. I've bought the fighter regiments and newer edition of aces book from there.

[Nokose]

Frank, Thanks for the update as the information that I found only hinted the details as a revision. Still maybe the unit information is better then what is shown in www.allaces.ru.