Vietnam

MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War

By István Toperczer, Osprey Publishing, 2016

From the time they sent their first contingent to the Soviet Union for training in 1956, the North Vietnamese understood what their newly forming Vietnamese People’s Air Force was likely to face. Their airmen, mostly peasants,

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