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  • Italian Aces of World War 2

    Series Libro 34 - Aircraft of the Aces
    Flying aircraft such as the Macchi 200-202, Fiat G.50 and biplane Fiat CR.42, the Italian fighter pilots were recognised by their Allied counterparts as brave opponents blessed with sound flying abilities, but employing under-gunned and underpowered equipment.Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, a number of aces continued to take the fight to the Allies as part of the Luftwaffe-run ... Leer más

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    An Attack Helicopter Warrior Remembers Vietnam

    It was 1968 and Robert Hartley was on his first combat mission in Vietnam as copilot of a helicopter gunship. As he and his platoon leader flew over the A Shau Valley, a Chinook helicopter engulfed in flames suddenly came into view. Hartley noticed tiny black smoking objects exiting the tail ramp of the aircraft. Seconds later, he realized those objects were men escaping the flames and plunging to ... Leer más

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  • Bombs Away

    The Story of a Bomber Team

    **A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersA Penguin Classic**On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account ... Leer más

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  • North American Mustang P-51

    Long Range Fighter

    Series Libro 51 - Profiles of Flight
    The Mustang was born from a British WW2 specification to North American during 1940. The prototype was completed within 117 days but the RAF was not happy with the aircraft's performance and suggested replacing the V-12 Allison with the more powerful RR Merlin. The result was a superbly fast and maneuverable aircraft that had the range to escort Allied bomber forces on raids deep into occupied ... Leer más

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  • Hell on Earth

    Dramatic First Hand-Experiences of Bomber Command at War

    de Mel Rolfe ...
    Twenty true stories of bravery, survival, and good and bad luck involving Bomber Command during World War II from the author of Flying into Hell.In their own words, the heroes of Bomber Command tell their harrowing stories . . ."It is believed that when Dacey realized the aircraft was on fire he grabbed an extinguisher, hurried aft and tried, in vain, to put out the flames. Somehow he became ... Leer más

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  • AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm

    de Lon Nordeen ...
    Series Libro 90 - Combat Aircraft
    The first part of a trilogy covering the deployment of USMC Harrier IIs in the Middle–East and Afghanistan.The AV-8B is the only tactical aircraft that can deploy with Marine forces on amphibious assault ships and provide air cover and close air support separate from large deck aircraft carriers. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, a coalition of nations launched Operation Desert Shield in ... Leer más

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  • Sabres Over MiG Alley

    The F-86 and the Battle for Air Superiority in Korea

    This is the story of the first jet versus jet war, the largest in number of victories and losses, and one of the few military bright spots in the Korean War. It tells how an outnumbered force of F-86 Sabres limited by range and restricted by the rules of engagement, decisively defeated its foe. Based on the latest scholarship, author Kenneth Werrell uses previously untapped sources and interviews ... Leer más

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  • Finnish Aces of World War 2

    Series Libro 23 - Aircraft of the Aces
    Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945 amassed scores only bettered by the Luftwaffe's Jagdflieger.Initially equipped with a motley collection of biplane and monoplane fighters garnered from sources across the globe, the Finnish Air ... Leer más

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  • Enduring Courage

    Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbaker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

    de John F. Ross ...
    The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and ... Leer más

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  • Luftwaffe The Second World War in Colour

    This superb collection of wartime colour photographs brings the Luftwaffe – its aircraft and personnel – to life in a dramatically vivid way. Colour photography was still a rare thing in the 1930s and 1940s. Various systems had been tried, but it was the Germans who had the greatest success with their Agfacolor process. This meant that colour images could be produced with basic darkroom equipment, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Building the Mosquito Fleet

    The US Navy's First Torpedo Boats

    In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by ... Leer más

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  • FRONTLINE AFGHANISTAN

    THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND

    de MIKE RYAN ...
    THIS BANG-UP-TO-DATE BOOK IS SLICK AND TO THE POINT.....THE TITLE'S CLARITY AND HONESTY WILL APPEAL TO ALL RANKS --- SOLDIER MAGAZINEHERE, WITH MORE THAN 200 IMAGES, MIKE RYAN ASSESSES THE STATE OF THIS WAR-RAVAGED NATION AND CONSIDERS THE CURRENT ROLE OF COALITION TROOPS AND THE PROGRESS TO DATE -- BRITAIN AT WARTHE CHAPTERS ARE INTELLIGENTLY ORGANISED AROUND THE VARIOUS ASPECTS, FROM EQUIPMENT ... Leer más

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