Автор: Chaz Bowyer
Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd
Год издания: 1994
isbn: 1856481735
Количество страниц: 128
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The pre-1939 Vickers Wellington remained in frontline operational service throughout the Second World War, undertaking every role and duty possible for an aircraft of its configuration. This is a remarkable portrait of a remarkable aircraft. Heavily illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. This is part 2 of a book "Halifax at War and Wellington at War" - two complete books in one volume.
Автор: Н.В.Якубович
Издательство: Русавиа
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 5900078515
Количество страниц: 110
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF (scan)
Автор на основе архивных материалов и воспоминаний ветеранов знакомит читателей с необычными самолетами и экранопланами, спроектированными Робертом Бартини, приехавшим в СССР из Италии в 1923 г. и посвятившим жизнь развитию советской авиации. Для любителей истории авиации.
Автор: Marek J Murawski
Издательство: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 8360445087
Количество страниц: 125
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Язык: польский/английский (Polish/English)
Another splendid monograph from Polish publisher, Kagero, featuring famous WWII aircraft in detail and scale. This volume covers the legendary Ju 87 'Stuka' and features masses of original black and white photos, twenty seven pages of 1/48 and 1/72 scale plans, side and three-views, and colour profiles.
Автор: Steven J. Zaloga
Издательство: Concord Publications
Год издания: 1993
isbn: 9623610394
Количество страниц: 62
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This excellent book starts with a two page history of the development of the Shilka with the rest of the book consisting of well captioned pictures.
The pictures - the majority of which are B&W - start off with a few pages of pictures of the Shilka's predecessors (ZSU-57 etc) an then move on to pictures of the Shilka itself.
Photos of all major variants of the Shilka are included as well as excellent close-up pictures which cover most, if not all, of the details on the exterior and interior. There are also technical drawings of the turret and line drawings comparing the different variants. As an added bonus there are some very good photos of the 2S6 Tunguska - the Shilka's successor.
Автор: Fred W. Crismon
Издательство: Motorbooks International
Год издания: 1992
isbn: 087938672X
Количество страниц: 407
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Fred Crismon has turned a lifetime of photographing military vehicles and rummaging through archives into a pair of superb reference books, "U.S. Military Tracked Vehicles," and its companion, "U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles". There are hundreds of photos of all types of armored and unarmored vehicles. If you are just interested in the famous vehicles, then this book is only slightly useful--for instance, there are much better references on the Sherman tank available. But for an overview of all vehicles, including obscure machines that never served in frontline combat, this is a unique reference. Where else could you find photos of arctic snow tractors of the 1950's, or experimental light tanks of the 1930's, or airfield tractors of the US Air Force? Most types or subtypes receive a long paragraph and a single b&w photo. Should be in the library of every serious military vehicle historian.
Автор: Gunter Endres
Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 071102409X
Количество страниц: 130
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is a history of the UK’s aircraft manufacturing companies and their aircraft over the years, accompanied by a remarkably-fine selection of photographs. From ABC and Airco through to Westland and White & Thompson, this is a comprehensive work of reference to the once-great British aircraft industry.
Автор: Pascal Danjou
Издательство: Editions Du Barbotin
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 2952098824
Количество страниц: 63
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
77 B&W photos, 64 colour camouflage illustrations, 20 1/35 & 1/72 scale drawings. This book details the most powerful French tank in 1940, covering its initial design, prototypes, different production versions - B1, B1 bis, B1 ter - its roles and deployment in the French Army, the campaigns it fought, its battles from Belgium to the Leberation of France, the tank under the Balkenkreuz, post war use and further developments. Dual French/English text.
Автор: Brian Cull
Издательство: Grub Street Publishing
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 1904010326
Количество страниц: 276
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Brewster B-339 Buffalo received much criticism during its brief service with the RAF, some justified, some not. Some of the pilots who eventually flew it in combat were happy with their mounts, others hated it as an operational fighter.
Rightly considered below par for service in the UK, the vast majority of the 170 aircraft acquired by the RAF Purchasing Commission from the United States was diverted for use in the Far East, where it was believed they would be superior to any Japanese aircraft encountered should hostilities break out there.
This assessment was to prove tragically very incorrect. When war did erupt, the Japanese Army Air Force - with its highly maneuverable Ki-27 and Ki-43 fighters - and the Japanese Navy Air Force equipped with the mighty A6M Zero, proved vastly superior in just about all aspects, and many of the Japanese fighter pilots were veterans of the war against China.
By contrast, the majority of the young British, New Zealand, and Australian pilots who flew the Buffalo on operations in Malaya and at Singapore were little more than trainees, and many flew into battle with only the basic training of their trade.
Nonetheless, these fledgling fighter pilots achieved much greater success than could have been anticipated, although many paid with their lives.
This is their story, complete with appendices and previously unpublished source material and photographs.
Автор: Ron MacKay, Steve Adams
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0764318853
Количество страниц: 268
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The 44th Bomb Group, which flew the B-24 Liberator, was the pioneer unit for what evolved from the Mighty Eighths 2nd Bomb Wing into a full-scale Bomb (and later Air) Division. The Group amassed an impressive 343 missions and won two Distinguished Unit Citations between November 1942 and April 1945, dropping nearly 19,000 tons of ordnance in the process including the legendary August 1943 Ploesti mission. These statistics were achieved at a material cost of around 200 aircraft, and a human cost of some 2,000 airmen MIA, as the 8th USAAF focused its strategic bombing campaign in the face of determined Luftwaffe opposition.
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