Air combat over the Eastern Front and Korea : a Soviet fighter pilot remembers
"Sergei Kramarenko was a lucky man. As a Soviet fighter pilot in two wars - first against the Japanese, then the US Air Force - and survived. On the Eastern Front in the Second World War, in the bitter conflict with the Germans, he duelled with Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s. He vividly recalls his training, his first combat missions during the headlong retreat of the Red Army and the speed and confusion of dogfights with the Luftwaffe. ... [He describes being shot down in flames, bailing outover German-occupied territory and hsi time in captivity. He also recalls the pitiless air battles that accompanied the Soviet advance westward, to Berlin. There the Red Air Force confronted increasingly desperate, outnumbered but still deadly Luftwaffe pilots who were defending their homeland. Then, in Korea, flying a MiG-15, came up against the Americans, the British and the Australians, in the first fighter-against-fighter clashes of the jet age. His accounts of combat against the F-86 Sabres. F-84 Thunderjets and Gloster Meteors are among the most vivid and remarkable of his long career. ..."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2008
Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008