C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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C-47 is an aircraft that remains a popular favourite and an acknowledged classic design, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers. The C-47's wartime operations paved the way for post-war military air transport. It also demonstrated how the USAAF was able to invest in and carry out a mission that it had not devoted much time to preparing for in terms of doctrine pre-war (in contrast to strategic bombing). In addition to linking theatres (by flying across 'the Hump'), it showed how vital it was to operations within a theatre like New Guinea, proving that even if massed airborne invasions were not carried out in the PTO/CBI, all air arms need transports like the C-47. This book examines these popular and vital units.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-02-08
Mått184 x 248 x 7 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCombat Aircraft
Antal sidor96
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
IllustratörDavey, Chris
ISBN9781846030468

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David C Isby is an experienced author, having written or edited 20 books and over 350 articles in journals such as Jane’s Intelligence Review and Air Force Monthly. His work on World War 2 military aviation includes Jane’s At the Controls - The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (London, 1999, Harper Collins) and editing three volumes of Luftwaffe accounts. He is an experienced pilot (and son of a USAAF C-47 navigator). Chris Davey has illustrated more than 20 titles for Osprey’s Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Elite Units series since 1994. Based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and one of the last traditional airbrush artists in the business, he has become the artist of choice for both USAAF fighters and RAF subject matter, proving his undoubted skill when dealing with large aircraft subjects such as the Halifax, Sunderland and C-47.