Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II 1939-45
by Higham, Robin; Siddall, Abigail T.; Williams, CarolFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-01
Publisher(s): Stackpole Books
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Summary
Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more! Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Includes dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin.
Author Biography
Robin Higham is a veteran of the Royal Air Force and professor emeritus of history at Kansas State University. Former editor of Aerospace Historian, he has written or edited numerous works on aviation history.
Table of Contents
| Preface | vii | ||||
| Introduction | |||||
|
ix | ||||
| The Forty, The Spit, and The Jug | |||||
|
1 | (16) | |||
| B-17 Flying Fortress | |||||
|
17 | (14) | |||
| B-25 Mitchell | |||||
|
31 | (8) | |||
| P-26 Peashooter | |||||
|
39 | (8) | |||
| Flying the North American O-47 and the Gurtiss-Wright O-52 | |||||
|
47 | (14) | |||
| P-38 Lightning | |||||
|
61 | (14) | |||
| The Vultee BT-13A | |||||
|
75 | (12) | |||
| B-24 Liberator | |||||
|
87 | (18) | |||
| The P-39 Airacobra in Europe | |||||
|
105 | (12) | |||
| The B-18-A Reminiscence | |||||
|
117 | (8) | |||
| C-54 Skymaster | |||||
|
125 | (10) | |||
| P-51 Mustang | |||||
|
135 | (12) | |||
| P-47 Thunderbolt | |||||
|
147 | (20) | |||
| CGO Glider | |||||
|
167 | (16) | |||
| The P-40 | |||||
|
183 | (14) | |||
| B-26 Marauder | |||||
|
197 | (10) | |||
| The Flying Fortress and the Liberator | |||||
|
207 | (6) | |||
| The XP-40 | |||||
|
213 | (12) | |||
| The AT-6 | |||||
|
225 | (8) | |||
| B-25 Mitchell | |||||
|
233 | (8) | |||
| C-47 Dakota | |||||
|
241 | (10) | |||
| The Martin Bomber B-10, B-12, B-10B | |||||
|
251 | (8) | |||
| P-39 Airacobra | |||||
|
259 | (8) | |||
| South Atlantic Express | |||||
|
267 | (12) | |||
| P-40 Kittyhawk | |||||
|
279 | (10) | |||
| B-26 Invader | |||||
|
289 | (12) | |||
| C-46 Commando | |||||
|
301 | (8) | |||
| Spitfire VIII vs P-51 Mustang | |||||
|
309 | (12) | |||
| B-29 Superfortress | |||||
|
321 | (12) | |||
| Index | 333 |
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