Fighters Soviet

Finally, our impressions of the 1987 Soviet Union included the pleasure and pleasant surprise of a fleeting visit to our conference by Andre Sakharov, the great freedom fighter and distinguished theoretical physicist. Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but to no avail, he was not allowed by his communist repressors to leave Moscow to attend the award ceremonies in Sweden. 

July 1941 the new commander in Malaya, General A. E. Percival, estimated that five divisions, instead of ten brigades were required. As the official history notes, it was evident by that date that existing plans for the defence of Malaya had broken down . ° Nevertheless, Churchill, anxious to support the Soviet Union, which had suffered heavy defeats since June, particularly with regard to its air force, preferred in August to offer to send 445 modem fighter aircraft to Murmansk. ... 

Soviet interceptor fighter development , note by the Chief of Air Staff, COS (50) 357, 13 Sep. 1950 Minister of Defence to Prime Minister, 17 Nov. 1950 Minister of Supply to Prime Minister, 22 Nov. 1950, PREM 8/1357, TNA. This file also contains a report, dated 16 May 1950, by the Joint Intelligence Bureau on production of Russian aircraft, including jet fighters with swept-back wings and twin-jet bombers. 

By the early 1950s, the various spy comics had begun to falter. Spy and Counterspy had folded in 1951, and Spy Cases, Spy Fighters, and Spy Hunters all expired by late 1953. Spy Thrillers survived only a year and a half longer. The reason for their demise was obvious. By this time, the atomic bomb, theft of which had become the backbone of the spy comics genre, had become an integral part of Soviet and American Ufe. In fact, it began to border on the commonplace. ... 

Fig. 37.2 B-25 bombers and P-39 fighters at Ladd Field in Fairbtmks, AK, awaiting transfer to Russia. The template for Soviet red star insignias used on the eiirciaft was obtained from a local Texaco gasoline station (Hays, 1996). Photograph courtesy of U.S. Air Force...

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