American Warplanes of World War II: Combat Aircraft of the United States Army Air Force, US Navy, US Marine Corps 1941-1945 book by David Donald : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

Format: Hardcover

Author: David Donald

ISBN: 9781840133929

Condition: Used - Very Good


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About the book >.>.> Years of complacency had left the US Army and US Navy with small forces, poor structures and obsolete aircraft. But all that was to change. The desperate battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw the now-mighty US Navy carrier fleet wrest control of the Pacific Ocean from the Japanese. But capture of the Pacific islands was a different matter. It was to take three long years of bitter fighting, supported by the Dauntless, Hellcat, Avenger and Corsair aircraft of the US Navy and Marine Corps, to finish that bloody task. Meanwhile, in Europe, the USAAF was assembling a mighty armada to join the massive aerial bombardment of the German heartland. B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators pounded the Reich by day, while escorting P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs swept the Luftwaffe from their path. When freed from supporting the bombers, the fighters raced at low level across western Europe, blasting trains, troops, tanks and all else before their guns and rockets. In North Africa and the push through Italy, medium bombers reigned supreme, while B-24 Liberators pulverised the Reich's oilfields. In China P-40 Warhawks and P-51 Mustangs fought a brave battle against fierce defence in primitive conditions. And at sea the Catalinas, Liberators and Harpoons of the US Navy kept the convoy lanes open, waging a devastating campaign against enemy U-boats and shipping in both eastern and western hemispheres. (MP)