Originally posted by ATA
What the hell is up with USAF always atacking allies?
Well, do you remember Pokryshkin's first kill in June, 1941? He shot down a Su-2 attack plane, they were not informed about this new plane, all the information was classified. BTW, the pilot of that Su-2 survived and later became a Marshall of Aviation, his family name was Pstygo IIRC.
If you want a good reading in "alternative history" of WWII - try this one:
http://www.fictionbook.ru/ru/author/anisimov_sergeyi/variant_bis/In Anisimov's book "allies" arm nazis and attack Soviet troops in November 1944, formal "casus belli" was an above-mentioned attack on an airfield and armour convoy near Nish. The main assumption in a book is that USSR avoided the catastrophe of 1941. The navy part of the book (Soviet task force of "Soviet Union" battleship, "Kronshtadt" battle cruiser and "Chapayev" escort CV breaking through into Atlantic through Dutch straights and working on "allied" communications) is far from reality, but the rest is very good, much more realistic then "Red Storm Rising". Another book that will never get translated to English
The final is sad: a resulting border after cease-fire is the same as in our reality, only costing millions of useless deaths...
