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by Andret Latkin.
Softcover (8.3×11.8 inches). 80 pages. 2015.
Subtitle: Volume 1: Origins and Early Combat Operations 1942-May 1944
This traces the use of P-40s in the USSR during WWII. As you might expect, lots of first-person accounts pepper the pages, often accompanied by the pilot’s hand-drawn maneuvers of the aerial battles. It’s like color ribbon diagrams, only period and in black and white.
Quite often these go day by day and month by month. Indeed, these go on quite a bit. I tended to skip through the second half of the book because it seemed like a lot of rinse and repeat. Yet, the benefit of all this can be a plethora of scenarios for air-to-air battles.
Some of the strikes were against convoys and airfields to offer a bit of variety.
The book contains 46 black and white photos, one black and white illustration, and 20 period black and white maps/maneuvers.
It’s another fine volume in the series.
Enjoyed it.
— Reviewed by Russ Lockwood
