Table of Contents
Introduction: Strange Bedfellows 1
Part I Western Europe
Chapter 1 Flying Fasces 13
Chapter 2 The Spanish Blue Squadron 45
Chapter 3 Vichy France's "Army of the Air" 57
Part II Eastern Europe
Chapter 4 Baltic Harassment Squadrons, Russia's Liberation Air Force, and Ukrainian Pilots 73
Chapter 5 Flying for Greater Bulgaria 83
Chapter 6 Croatian Airborne 95
Chapter 7 Finland's "Flying Beer Bottles" 117
Chapter 8 Hungarian Pumas 141
Chapter 9 Romania's "American Season" 159
Chapter 10 Slovakia's Tatra Eagles 179
Part III The Middle East
Chapter 11 "Flyer Leader Iraq" 195
Chapter 12 In the Skies of Syria 203
Part IV Asia
Chapter 13 China's "Auspicious Cloud" of Air Power 209
Chapter 14 Japan's Imperial Army and Naval Air Forces 215
Chapter 15 Manchurian Dragon-Slayers 257
Chapter 16 Thai Falcons and Hawks 269
Notes 289
Bibliography 297
Index 303