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A detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Allied navies from 1939 to 1945, including fighters, fighter-bombers, torpedo bombers, dive-bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, floatplanes, and flying boats. Illustrated with profile artworks, three-views, and special cutaway artworks of the more famous aircraft in service.
Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 14 September 2022
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II is a comprehensive guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Allied navies from 1939 to 1945, featuring colourful artworks of carrier aircraft and their markings. Organised chronologically by type and nationality, the book includes fighters, fighter-bombers, torpedo bombers, dive-bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, floatplanes, and flying boats. Some of the best-known types featured are the Grumman F4F Wildcat, Douglas TBD Devastator, and Douglas SBD Dauntless, which fought at the Battle of Midway in 1942. The Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber, which was so effective at the Battle of Taranto in 1940 and helped sink the German battleship Bismarck in 1941, is also included.
The entries are accompanied by exhaustive captions and specifications, providing detailed information about the aircraft. The guide is further enhanced with profile artworks, three-views, and special cutaway artworks of the more famous aircraft in service, such as the Blackburn Skua torpedo bomber, Curtiss SB2 Helldiver dive-bomber, and Vought F4U Corsair heavy fighter. With more than 100 artworks, Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II is an essential reference guide for modellers and enthusiasts of military aircraft of World War II.
Weight: 514g
Dimension: 186 x 222 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838862107
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