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The sight of Polish cavalry charging the armoured columns of the Wehrmacht in September 1939 would probably offer the closest historical parallel to a meeting in battle between China’s air forces and the air power of China’s close and unfriendly neighbour, the Soviet Union.
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Sweetman, B. (1984). Air Forces. In: Segal, G., Tow, W.T. (eds) Chinese Defence Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06791-6_5
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