Anti-Aircraft Artillery In The Korean War
1950-1953
$114.44
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2027
Summary
On 25 June 1950, the 507th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapon) Battalion at Camp McGill, Japan, was ordered to form a detachment for an urgent air transport mission. Three officers and thirty-two enlisted men, equipped with four M-55 quadruple-mounted .50-calibre anti-aircraft machine-guns, were airlifted by C-54 transport aircraft to Korea to establish air defence for a forward airfield. Designated Detachment X, the unit arrived at Suwon airfield, twenty kilometres north of Seoul, at …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781048180169 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1048180166 |
| Author: | Mandeep Singh |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Air World |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Mandeep Singh
Colonel Mandeep Singh is a professional air defence gunner with over thirty-three years of experience. A regular contributor to Indian Defence Review and Delhi Defence Review, Colonel Singh is also the author of Baptism Under Fire, which examines the role of air defence artillery in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He maintains a blog entitled Ack Ack: All about Air Defence.
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