Автор: Frank Smith, Peter Malone
Издательство: Kookaburra Technical Publicati
Год издания: 1971
Количество страниц: 28
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Автор: Anthony G. Williams
Издательство: Airlife Publishing
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 1840373962
Количество страниц: 194
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This book describes the history of aircraft guns, their ammunition and their installations in aircraft. It commences with a technical history covering the development of guns, their ammunition, and related issues such as mountings and sights. This is followed by chapters on aircraft installations covering all nations and an evaluation of their use in combat. Appendices include comprehensive tables of the gun installations of WWI combat aircraft with details and illustrations of the guns used and specifications of their ammunition. Comparative drawings and specifications of service weapons are provided, plus illustrations and data concerning their ammunition.
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Автор: Tom Ivie, Paul Ludwig
Издательство: Hikoki Publications
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 1902109430
Количество страниц: 177
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The USAAF 52nd Fighter Group enjoyed an outstanding record in World War II, but to date its story has never been told.
Activated in January 1941, it moved to England in July 1942 for an assignment with the Eighth Air Force. It flew combat missions in Spitfires to France during the summer of 1942 before being reassigned to the invasion force attacking North Africa in November 1942.
After moving to North Africa, it was assigned to the Twelfth Air Force and was again equipped with Spitfires. As part of the Twelfth Air Force, it flew combat missions in the Tunisian campaign, and during the invasion of Sicily.
In mid-1944, the 52nd was reassigned to the Fifteenth Air Force and converted to P-51 Mustangs. During the remainder of the war, it flew bomber escort and strafing missions to targets in Italy, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, and Yugoslavia. For its outstanding service the Group was twice awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation.
During its long campaign, the Group destroyed more than 425 enemy aircraft in aerial combat and damaged 135 plus many more on the ground. The 52nd Fighter Group produced 21 Aces.
Автор: Sheperd Paine
Издательство: Airlife Publishing Ltd.
Год издания: 1996
isbn: 1853107890, `
Количество страниц: 80
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
THE BASIC IDEA behind this book is to show you how to build armor models, starting at the most basic level of kit assembly and painting and taking you all the way through to advanced projects in step-by-step fashion. Although the material published on real armored vehicles has come in a virtual flood over the past dozen years, little has been published about the modeling aspect of this hobby. This book will help fill that gap. If you've never built a military vehicle model before, this book will show you how, but if you've been building models for a year or two - or even several years - you'll find this book invaluable. In it, author Shep Paine explains his techniques in a manner so clear that you'll be able to put them to work immediately in your modeling. In fact. a brief lesson or two from Shep may be just what you need to "break through" and boost your skills to the next higher level. So climb aboard! If you want your next armor model to be a whole lot better than your last - or the one you're working on now - then MODELING TANKS AND MILITARY VEHICLES is the book for you. As an example this book contains a step-by-step section explaining how to build a superdetailed M51 iSherman and M25 Tank Transporter.
Автор: Jonathan Falconer
Издательство: Sutton Publishing
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 075093171X
Количество страниц: 280
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Night after night through six long years of war, RAF Bomber Commands squadrons pounded away at the cities of Nazi Germany in a determined effort to bring the Third Reich to its knees. Pitted against Bomber Harris's aircrews and aircraft were some of the most effective and deadly defenses the world has ever seen. For Bomber Command to launch a 'maximum effort' raid on the Ruhr by night, or a low-level strike on an enemy target in occupied Europe by day, it involved a huge amount of planning. Who decided the policy? Why, when and where were the airfields built? How was the overall command structure organized, from the Air Council down to individual squadron level? How did the RAF train its bomber crews? What aircraft did they fly and what weapons did they use? Who were their commanders and who were the men that made up the rank-and-file of the Command? How was a raid planned and once it was launched what happened? This is the first book of its kind to present such a comprehensive overview of Bomber Command's wartime organization and operations, and is fully illustrated with a fine selection of archive photographs. Two parts: 53+52.09MB
Автор: Peter Taylor
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год издания: 2000
isbn: 0850525829
Количество страниц: 220
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Over the years the author has amassed a large collection of insignia associated with the Special Forces units of World War II. This detailed text and the 400 color illustrations which accompany it are the result of a lifetime of research, and is surely the most definitive book ever to be published on Special Forces insignia.
Автор: Jerry Scutts
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2000
isbn: 1902579062
Количество страниц: 66
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is the fifth title in the series and is intended to be a companion volume for Volume 3: Basic Military Vehicle Modelling and Volume 4: Advanced Military Vehicle Modelling. This title helps to complete the reader's knowledge of the skills and techniques required in military vehicle modelling. It covers such methods as scratch-building, superdetailing and the use of new materials including liquid plastic and photoetched details. These new techniques are vividly explained through a highly-illustrated, blow-by-blow guide to building a variety of kits, the M24 Chaffee, SdKfz 7/2 and 7/1, Bergepanther and many others.
Автор: Peter Scott
Издательство: Hikoki Publications
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 1902109554
Количество страниц: 131
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Surely some of the most colorful warplanes ever to see active service, the aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force carried the samurai regard for brightly colored armor and equipment into the 20th century. The heraldic traditions of the warriors of ancient Japan found new expression as the emblems for all types of air units in the service of the Emperor. Used by flying training schools, fighter squadrons, bomber groups and, ultimately, suicide formations, all sprang from the Japanese love of symbolism and design.
Some were hundreds of years old, others existed for only a few weeks or months. Each one that can be verified from photographs is illustrated here in glorious color. This title's 100 pages of full color drawings show the emblems both by unit and by aircraft type, allowing the enthusiast to rapidly identify exactly which formation a specific aircraft may have belonged to. Numerous photos illustrate the many variations of emblems and the different aircraft types which carried them. Organizational charts give Orders of Battle in different theatres of war, ranging from Manchuria, China and Burma to the Home Islands.
Автор: Jerry Scutts
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2000
isbn: 1841761370
Количество страниц: 65
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This book tackles the complex problems posed by WWII figure modelling caused by the variety of combatants, uniforms, camouflage schemes, vehicles and weapons, the many theatres of war and the variety of terrain fought over.
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