"Japanese Mitsubishi A5M Claude vs Polikarpov I-16 Ishak" Topic

Why is the eastern air war so overlooked?Nomonhan and Khalkin Gol taught the Japanese a land lesson but their army airforce seemed to be stigmatized by the IJN aviation success even while vastly superior IJA designs in comparison to dwindling soviet stocks were shipped to them

Gotta disagree.

I'm looking at a copy of the recent Vladimir R. Kotelnikov Air War Over Khalkin Gol, The Nomonhan Incident, c.2010 SAM Publications, UK, ISBM 978-1-906959-23-4, only the latest addition to my library on this subject.

Nomonhan has it all – fleets of Japanese and Russian tanks, sweeping mechanized maneuvers, fleets of Japanese and Russian golden-age airplanes, big air battles, little impact on civilians, few prisoners, Zhukov, and a swift, decisive outcome – the Japanese forces that were committed were more-or-less annihilated and the Japanese never again dared to provoke the Soviets.

The Nomonhan campaign is arguably less well known to North American wargamers than the Battle of Britain or D-Day, but it has attracted plenty of attention. I have in my library a US Army Fort Leavenworth study and a Dana Lombardy wargame of the campaign, besides several magazine articles, web studies and chapters in books. But most authors who write on the subject seem to think that it's obscure, and that they're re-discovering a forgotten battle. Hunh. Odd.