Research by Von Hardesty and Ilya Grinberg on the Soviet Air Force during World War II has uncovered many new findings.
Documented in their book – Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II – the authors found that the VVS “emerged as the largest operational-tactical air force in the world by the end of the war.”
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