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80. Russian Air Force in the Eyes of German Commanders, p 31.
81. Ibid., pp 154-55.
82. Soviet Air Force in World War 11, p 103.
83. Ibid., p 147.
84. Ibid., p 125.
85. SVE, vol 2, p 164; Soviet backwardness in the field of radar during the war is a
sore point with their historians. For example, a Lt Gen (reserve) M. Lobanov, in an article
entitled “K voprosu voznikoveniya i razvitiya otechestvennoy radiolokatsii [Concerning
the Origin and Development of Indigenous Radar], Voenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal. 8
(August 1962). pp 13-29, laments that for too long it has been assumed in the West and
even in the Soviet Union that radar came to the Russians via Lend-Lease. He then goes
on at great length to show how radar was developed indigenously in the USSR from the
early 1930s. According to Lobanov (p 20), the “RUS-I” radar went into series production
in 1939 in time for use in the Winter War, and by the beginning of the Soviet-German war
the radio industry had produced 45 complete “RUS-I” sets and was replacing it with the
“RUS-2.”
86. Chief Marshal of Aviation Pave1 Kutakhov, “Voenno-vozhdushnye sily” [The Air
Forces], Voenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal, 10 (October 1977). pp 36-43.
87. Schwabedissen, Russian Air Force in the Eyes of German Commanders, p 255;
Soviet Air Force in World War II, p 163.
88. Ibid., p 376.
89. Robert F. Futrell, The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953 (New York,
1961), p 571.
90. Lt Gen Klaus Uebe, Russian Reaction to German Airppwer in World War 11 (Maxwell
AFB, Ala., 1964). pp 99-100.
91. Schwabedissen, Russian Air Force in the Eyes of German Commanders, p 377;
Overy, The Air War, p 200.
92.Ist. Velik. Otech. Voyn., vol5, p 467.
93. Kutakhov, “Voenno-vozdushnye sily,” p 37.
94.Ist. Velik. Otech. Voyn., vol4, p 16.
95. Alexander, Russian Aircraft Since 1940, pp 426-29.
96. Ibid., pp 299-300.
97. Ibid., pp 430-33 and 172-73.
98. Greenwood, “The Great Patriotic War,” pp 118-19.
99. Ibid., p 113.
100. Soviet Air Force in World War 11, p 361.
101. Text of the “Agreement Concerning the Entry of the Soviet Union into the War
Against Japan, signed at Yalta February 11, 1945,” in Max Beloff, Soviet Policy in the Far
East, 1944-1951 (London, 1953). p 25.
102. Japanese Special Studies on Manchuria, Vol XIII: Study of Strategical and Tactical
Peculiarities of Far Eastern Russia and the Soviet Far Eastern Forces (Washington.
1955). pp 111-12.
103. John R. Deane, The Strange Alliance (New York, 1947). p 248.
104. Raymond Garthoff, “Soviet Intervention in Manchuria, 1945-1946.” Orbis, Vol X,
No 2 (Summer 1966), p 527.
105. Ibid.; 1st. Velik. Otech. Voyn.. vol 5, p 548.
106. Garthof, “Soviet Intervention in Manchuria,” p 531,
107. Soviet Air Force in World War 11, p 368.
108. Robert A. Kilmarx, A History ofSoviet Air Power (New York, 1962). p 184. Soviet
historians tend to downgrade U.S. Lend-Lease in general and aircraft in particular. During
the Great Patriotic War, the U.S. delivered 14,018 aircraft to the USSR. See also Robert H.
Jones, The Roads to Russia: United States Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union (Norman, Okla.,
1969), appendix A, table 11.
109. Overy, The Air War, p 150.
110. Murray, Strategyfor Defeat, table LXIV, p 306.
11 1. Soviet Air Force in World War 11, p 382.
112. A. Pokryshkin, Kryl’ya Istrebitelya [Fighter Wings] (Moscow: Voenno Izdatel’stvo
Ministerstva Vooruzhennykh Sil Soyuza SSR, 1948), p 22.
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