| Title | : | Korean Combat (Yeoman, #10) |
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| ISBN | : | 1535576219 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781535576215 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 137 |
| Publication | : | Published August 3, 2016 |
Two months prior, the vast and brutal armies of Red China had demonstrated their North Korean alliance when they stormed the United Nations divisions in Manchuria.
By the time North Korean forces crossed the border known as the 38th Parallel into South Korea, the UN was preparing for a full-scale war.
In the meantime, Russian and Chinese pilots – allies in North Korea – began ruthlessly swarming the skies in an attempt to secure a North Korean victory.
The UN knew this was a war that could only be won in the air as ground forces were dangerously outnumbered and UN directives restricted advance in favour of defence.
Except assumptions of UN air superiority were shattered when the North Korean Air Force unveiled a new weapon, the MiG-15 – newly engineered aircraft jets from Soviet Russia.
The jets annihilated the previously superior American B-29 jets which had been successful in Japan.
The battle that followed was on a smaller scale than the one which preceded it, but the pilots, many of them already suffering from nervous exhaustion, soon realised that it was an air operation of intense ferocity.
This is their forgotten story, a story of comradeship, of victory and of loss and of a new, terrifying type of military warfare.
Korean Combat is the thrilling ninth book in the immensely popular Yeoman series.
Robert Jackson was born in the north Yorkshire village of Melsonby in 1941. A former pilot and navigation instructor, he was a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, experience that strongly influenced his writing career. A prolific writer, he has written more than fifty factual works devoted to aviation and military subjects, including Air Force: The RAF in the 1990s, operational histories of a wide range of aircraft, and reference works such as the Guinness Book of Air Warfare. He has also authored more than twenty novels, most of which take place against the backdrop of World War II, and has written popular science features for the Press Association. He also enjoys rugby football.
Korean Combat (Yeoman, #10) Reviews
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A description of part of the air war in Korea, especially from the view point of the Australian Meteor squadrons, with a guest appearance from Wing Commander George Yeomen.
The story jumps around a bit too much and to be honest it isn’t really a story just a collection of incidents. We get to see a little of George, but the series has long since stopped being his story. -
Happy to report that Yeoman is back to flying after his Malayan tour! In fact, this book was nearly all flying ops, but this time in the early years of the jet age during the Korean War. I was a little surprised to read how tough a fight it was for the (mostly) Americans and some Commonwealth airman against the MiG-15. Losses were high - too high. The North American Mustangs had no chance, the Boeing B-29s were falling like flies, and even the early models of the F-86 Sabre were outmatched by well trained Chinese and of course Russian pilots manning the MiG-15s (the North Korean pilots were quickly dealt with). Tactics had to be adapted and even the playbook of the Luftwaffe in War Two was taken into account. But there was the usual fine detail about life in Korea (and Japan) in the early 1950s as well, as told by someone who was either there or had direct access to those who were. And Yeoman, despite his rank and time-in still manages to get airborne now and then and at times finds himself in the most trying circumstances. Fortunately his luck holds and he even bags a MiG-15! I was disappointed the story ended, it was so enjoyable and highly readable.
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Another cracking Yeoman adventure.
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Fair military yarn.
I've been reading the previous titles in the series from Robert Jackson and am finding them to be well written generally but with a hastily written ending that spoils it all somewhat. This book in the series is no exception. -
Exceptionally written. I usually do not pick war history books, but this one really got my attention. I have not read any of the others in this series, but I plan on picking them up.
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