"Any good books on the Chinese Air Force, circa 1930s?" Topic
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 Saginaw  | 06 Aug 2009 11:45 a.m. PST |
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| Tachikoma | 06 Aug 2009 1:50 p.m. PST |
Martin Caidin's "The Ragged, Rugged Warriors" covers aerial operations just before and early in World War II and has a chapter or two about the Chinese in the 1930s. |
| RJT2003 | 06 Aug 2009 2:55 p.m. PST |
Not a book, but a good article on the web here:
link Richard |
| Ryan T | 06 Aug 2009 7:06 p.m. PST |
Hello Saginaw, Best source I've come across is Edward Hooton, "Air War Over China", Air Enthusiast #43 (September-December 1987), pp. 7-24, 62-63. Ryan Toews |
| RockyRusso | 07 Aug 2009 11:59 a.m. PST |
Hi Much as I enjoy Ragged Rugged Warriors, it is mostly wrong. Several bits are made up, and most of the supposed details are wrong. Think of it more as fiction. I don't know of a single good book specifically on air combat in the era, just a lot of articles in various journals. AirEnthusiast and others have done whole serieses on things like Nomonhan. And SPI, I think did a magazine type "book" on Nomonhan as well. Rocky |
| zippyfusenet | 09 Aug 2009 7:30 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the link to the Robert Craig Johnson article Richard, lots of good information there. Here's a link to an article about Chinese ace Lee Kuei-Tan. It features lots of tactical detail about his and his comrades' engagements: link I don't know of any monographs on the Sino-Japanese air war. Col. Roy M. Stanley II Prelude to Pearl Harbor is a recent, well illustrated popular history of the China War 1937-41. It includes one 20-page chapter on the air war that gives a reasonable overview. R C Johnson laments that it's hard to find material on Soviet aid to the Chinese Air Force. One source for this subject is in Soviet Volunteers in China 1925-1945, no author, c.1980 Progress Publishers. This collection of papers by various authors describing their own experiences includes a 40-page chapter by HSU S.V. Slyusarev "Protecting China's Air Space" that goes into considerable detail. |
| Ryan T | 11 Aug 2009 6:25 p.m. PST |
I just came across this site. Lots of info. link |
| momoiro kakaricho | 13 Aug 2009 9:15 a.m. PST |
Blue Rider published a number of articles on interwar Chinese aircraft in Insignia. I'm not sure if these have been transfered to CD version yet though. - Eric |
| Kaoschallenged | 19 Aug 2009 10:53 p.m. PST |
Another great book with 322 pages of info is "A History of Chinese Aviation,Encyclopedia of Aircraft and Aviation in China until 1949" 2008 by Lennart Andersson. Robert |
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