Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority - Air Force ...

AIR SUPERIORITY
Notes
1. fstoriya Velikoy Otechestvennoy Voyna Sovetskogo Soyuza 1941-1945. [The History
of the Great Fatherland War of the Soviet Union, 1941-19451 (Moscow: Voennoe Itdarel’stvo
Ministerstva Oborony Soyuza SSR, 1960). vol I, p 90. This is a six-volume cooperative
effort published between 1960 and 1965. Referred to hereafter as Ist. Velik. Otech. Voyn.
2. Aviatstroitel’, No. 6 (June 1933), pp 1-2, as cited in The Soviet Aircraft Industry,
Institute for Research in Social Science (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1955). p 6.
3. Ist. Velik. Otech. Voyn., vol I, p 65.
4. Aviatsiya i kosmonavtika [Aviation and Cosmonautics], No. 1 (January 1974), p 23.
The letter “I” in the 1-15 stands for the Russian word istrebitel’, or “fighter,” and the “R”
for razvedka, or “reconnaissance.” On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the letter designation
was changed to indicate the name of the designer of the aircraft.
5. W. Schwabedissen, Generalleutnant, The Russian Air Force in the Eyes of German
Commanders (Maxwell AFB, Ala., 1960). p 26.
6. The Japanese refer to the conflict as the “Nomonhan Incident,” while the Soviets call
it the “Kalkhin-Go1 Incident.” The best account representing the Japanese point of view is
in the two-volume work: Japanese Studies in Manchuria, vol XI, part 3, books A and B,
“Small Wars and Border Problems: The Nomonhan Incident” (Washington, 1956). This
work also includes an English translation of a Soviet account: S. N. Shishkin, Kalkin-Go/
(Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1954). A Soviet account can be found in Ist. Velik.
Otech. Voyn. vol I, pp 236-45. Also see John Erickson, The Soviet High Command (New
York, 1962), pp 517-23 and 532-37.
7. Erickson, Soviet High Command, pp 505-06.
8. Ibid., pp 500-01.
9. A. I. Shakurin, “Aviatsonnaya Promyshlennost’ Nakanane Velikoy Otechestvennoy
Voyny [The Aviation Industry on the Eve of the Great Fatherland War], Voprosy Istorii, 2
(1974). pp 81-99. A. S. Yakovlev, Tel’ zhizni [The Aim of a Lifetime] (Moscow, 1966). p 183.
10. Jean Alexander, Russian Aircraft Since 1940 (London, 1975). pp 193-95 and 421-24;
A. S. Yakovlev, Fifty Years of Soviet Aircraft Construction (translated for NASA by the
Israeli Program for Scientific Translations) (Washington, n.d.), p 55; Aviatsiya i kosrnonavtika,
11 (November 1974), pp 24-25.
11. According to Zhukov, the Red Army received 17,745 combat planes, including 3,719
new types, between January 1939 and June 22, 1941, a little over 7,000 aircraft a year. The
Memoirs of MarshalZhukov (New York, 1971), pp 201-03.
12. G. Mikhaylovskiy and I. Vyrodov, “Vysshchiye organy rukovodstva voyny” [The
Highest Organs in the Direction of the War], Voennoistoricheskiy zhurnal, 4 (April 1978). p
24.
13. Ibid.
14. Raymond Garthoff, Soviet Military Doctrine (Glencoe, Ill., 1953), p 196.
15. fbid., pp 209-10.
16. Ist. Velik. Otech. Voyn., vol I, pp 476-77; V. Gorbachev, “Primenenie Sovetskikh
VVS v nachal’nom periode Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny” [Employment of the Soviet
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