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| Aircraft
of World War II. By Mike Sharpe. Grange Books; ISBN: 184013366X Our Price:
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Reference
work aircraft of the Second World War.
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| Hardcover
- 96 pages (August 2001) |
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| Royal
Navy Aircraft : Since 1945. By Ray Williams. Naval Institute Press; ISBN:
0870219960. Our Price: £25.04. RRP: |
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| Hardcover
- 170 pages (September 1989) |
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The
Wings of the Navy. By Captain Eric Brown. Naval Institute Press;
ISBN:
0870219952. Our
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A detailed
flight analysis of FAA aircraft with cutaways and history of each aircraft
by the renowned Fleet Air Arm test pilot.
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| Hardcover
- 176 pages 2nd Ed (1987) |
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| Fleet
Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945. By Ray Sturtivant with Mick Burrow. Air
Britain (Historians) Ltd; ISBN: 0851302327. Our Price: £. RRP: |
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A companion
work to 'The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm', this is the first comprehensive
listing ever undertaken of the aircraft flown by the Royal Navy in the
Second World War. Many years of research have gone into compiling this
work, which reveals just how varied and widespread were the activities
of the Fleet Air Arm at its highest strength. The entries are on similar
lines to those in 'Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911 to 1919'.
As with the earlier work, the tables are not just a simple listing of serial
numbers and squadrons, but include known dates of service with units, code
markings and also a vast amount of other information on various types of
incident such as accidents, air combat victories and U-boat attacks. Details
of all known wartime naval aircraft fatalities and prisoners of war are
given. The whole work runs to 512 pages, with 200 photographs and a comprehensive
index to around 8,000 names of people of varied ranks included in the lists,
many of whom were from Commonwealth navies.
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| Hardcover
- 512 pages (1995) |
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| Fleet
Air Arm Aircraft, Units And Ships 1920 to 1939. By Ray Sturtivant &
Dick Cronin. Air Britain (Historians) Ltd: ISBN: 0851302718. Our Price:
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The
first detailed work on the Fleet Air Arm between the wars. Full histories
of flights and squadrons, including movements, aircraft types and COs;
detailed individual aircraft histories with many aircrew names; detailed
histories of FAA and coastal prototypes (N127 to N256 and others); comprehensive
details of the complicated and colourful system of code markings and carrier
bands; names of pupil Pilots, Observers and TAGs on courses up to the end
of 1939; 3,000 name index; detailed movements of 12 aircraft carriers and
seaplane carriers, and 60 seaplane-carrying battleships, cruisers and a
submarine with a photograph of each ship.
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| Hardcover
- 448 pages (1998) |
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| Royal
Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911-1919. By Ray Sturtivant and Gordon
Page. Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN: 0851301916. Our Price:
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This
work provides complete or near complete histories of over 15,000 aircraft
flown by the Royal Naval Air Service from 1911 and by successor units of
the Royal Air Force from 1 April 1918 until the end of 1919. It also lists
their squadrons, units and bases. The resulting book runs to 480
pages and contains 321 photographs illustrating the majority of aircraft
types flown, including prototypes. Sixteen pages of drawings include plans
of over 80 U.K. land and marine bases, as well as location maps of aerodromes
and place names in France and Belgium. A comprehensive index details around
4,000 individual names referred to in the lists. The lists cover
aircraft operated in such diverse locations as United Kingdom coastal waters,
the North Sea, the Western Front, East Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean,
the Dardanelles, the Aegean, Mesopotamia, post-war Russia and training
stations at home and in France, as well as aboard ships ranging from impressed
paddle-steamers up to battleships. There is detailed coverage of successes
and losses on the Western Front. All known operational and non-operational
casualties are listed, both fatal and otherwise, in most cases with brief
information on the
incident and the
individual aircraft involved.
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| Hardcover
- 321 pages (1992) |
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| Royal
Navy Instructional Airframes. By Ray Sturtivant and Rod Burden. Air Britain
(Historians) Ltd. ISBN: 0851302637 Our Price: £. RRP: |
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A joint
BARG/Air-Britain monograph. Detailed histories of British naval aircraft
relegated to ground training tasks and given A2000-series numbers over
the last 40 years, plus available information on earlier allocations; also
relevant RAF 'M' serials. Previous service identities, code markings, locations
etc. Detailed guide to units involved. Comprehensive cross-index. 128 pages,
74 black and white photos. Full colour cover.
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| Hardcover
- 128 pages (date) |
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Sea
Planes and Flying Boats by Adrian B. Rance. University of Southampton,
Industrial Archaeology
Group; ISBN: 0905280032. Our Price: £5.00. |
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| Paperback
(1981) |
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| Naval
Aviation in the First World War by R.D. Layman. Chatham Publishing; ISBN:
1861760078. Our Price: £9.99. |
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| Hardcover
- 224 pages (1996) |
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Category: NAVAL DIVE BOMBERS
| Dive
Bomber! : An Illustrated History by Peter C. Smith. ISBN 0861900626 |
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The
most comprehensive history on dive bombers and dive bombing from 1911 onward,
accompanied by deeply researched facts and a wide selection of photographs
to give the full story for the first time. The author spent years
culling obscure
files and documents in archives around the world, and found an enormous
amount of data that had lain, unread and unheeded since first written.
From this rich and original fund of first-hand official accounts, enriched
with tables, studies,
conclusions and designs, the full and hitherto totally misrepresented history
of the dive-bomber in the world's major air forces was revealed.
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| Hardcover
- out of stock (1982) |
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| Dive
Bomber : Learning to Fly the Navy's Fighting Planes. By Robert Alexander
Winston. ASIN: 1557509018. Our Price: $24.95 |
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This
book is about the US Navy and dive bombing.
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| Hardcover
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| Into
the Assault : Famous Dive-Bomber Aces of the Second World War. By Peter
Charles Smith. ASIN: 0295963174. Our Price: $20.00 |
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The
biographies of some of World War II's leading exponents of the dive bombing
art from all the combatant nations - Egusa of Japan; Mesny of France; Cenni
of Italy; Partridge of Britain; Polbin of the Soviet Union; Enneccerus
of the Luftwaffe and Glidden of the USA. Through their eyes the famous
actions are chronicled with a good selection of photographs of the men
and their aircraft. This unique and outstanding presentation of the viewpoints
of pilots from very
different nationalities
and air forces, all of whom used the dive bomber to excellent effect and
really made a difference to the war efforts of their nations, was again
an innovation when it first appeared. Very seldom had the viewpoints of
former enemy pilots been given space in the English language, and certainly
never had dive bombing from the sharp end been so comprehensively revealed.
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| Hardcover
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| Jungle
Dive Bombers at War. By Peter C. Smith. ASIN: 0719544254 Our Price: $29.95 |
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The
secret and mainly unwritten history of the part the dive bomber played
in the defeat of Japan and in the post-war shape of the region. The special
accuracy inherent in dive-bombing lent itself to jungle fighting were targets
were usually well
hidden and small and needed precision to hit while avoiding friendly casualties.
All around the Pacific rim in the 1940's the dive-bomber made its mark.
A fresh and largely unrelated series of actions are told in detail in this
volume. From the British and Indian Vengeance squadrons that saved
Kohima and Imphal; the "secret" USAAF A-36A dive bombers which supported
the behind the lines battles Burma and China; the New Zealand Dauntless
dive bomber squadron on Bougainville; the Australian Vengeance units that
battled in New Guinea, the US Navy Helldiver dive bombers that took the
war to the Philippines, and finally the work of the French Navy Helldiver
dive bombers post-war at Dien Bien Phu battle against the communists, all
these previously little-known combat aircraft and actions are recorded
in full and often for the first time in any depth.
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| Hardcover
- out of print (1987) |
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| Dive
Bombers in Action, by Peter C. Smith. ASIN: 0713719575. Our Price: $29.95 |
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A comprehensive
and detailed look at the dive bomber in World War II in all its many applications
with new information and photos on German, British, French, Italian, Japanese,
Russian (including the very first detailed accounts, in
English, of female
dive bomber pilots in action) and American pilots and aircraft. Recounts
not just the success but the failures also and how the type developed world-wide.
Includes accounts of the Fleet Air Aem dive bombing attack on the German
battleship Tirpitz.
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| Hardcover
- out of print (1985) |
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Category: MARITIME AIRCRAFT
Sea
Planes and Flying Boats by Adrian B. Rance. University of Southampton,
Industrial Archaeology
Group; ISBN: 0905280032. Our Price: £5.00. |
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Bokk
about Sea Planes and Flying Boats.
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| Paperback
(1981) |
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