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Identification of Soviet-Russian Aircraft FM 30-34

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Item Number: L0124

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Military Intelligence
Identification of Soviet-Russian Aircraft
[Basic Field Manual FM 30-34]

First (?) U.S. manual intended to aid officers and men of the U.S. Army in identifying Russian/Soviet aircraft known or believed to be in use at the time of publication. Interesting in what it doesn't show more than for what it does, as so little was known about Soviet/Russian aircraft at the time.

Originally published on 18 July 1941 by the War Department, Washington, D.C., as a soft cover booklet.

Military Aircraft
Naval Aircraft
Each two-page spread contains what information was known at the time on a particular aircraft believed to be in service with the Soviet forces. Not all have illustrations, and most have only a few bits of data on the aircraft.
112 pages
36 photos
36 drawings
20 three-view silhouette drawings
4 two-view silhouette drawings
2 four-view silhouette drawings