Typhoon and Tempest Aces of World War 2 - Volume 27

Informationen zum Autor Chris Thomas is the Air-Britain specialist on the Hawker Typhoon. He has had profile illustrations published in Air Enthusiast, Aeroplane Monthly, Flypast and Le Fana de l’Aviation , as well as illustrating Osprey titles including COM 86 and ACE 122. Chris Davey has illustrated more than 70 titles for Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series since 1994. Based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, as one of the very last traditional airbrush artists in the business, he has become the company's illustrator 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, Lancaster, and Stirling. Klappentext Hawker Typhoon and Tempest two aircraft types with widely differing reputations. The former was a technical nightmare redeemed as a ground attack machine, whilst the latter proved to be the most superlative low and medium level fighter to see service with the RAF, and arguably any air force, during the latter stages of World War 2. With 246 enemy aircraft destroyed by the Typhoon and 239 by the Tempest, over 40 aces flew one or both types in combat, and men like 'Foob' Fairbanks and Johnny Baldwin attained double-figure scores with the Hawker fighters. Zusammenfassung Originally designed as an interceptor, Hawker's mighty Typhoon made a name for itself in the ground attack role. The follow-on Tempest V destroyed 638 V1s and 20 Me 262s in the final year of the war. This volume includes many scale drawings, archival photographs and interviews with leading Aces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction/Into Service and Out?/Jabo Hunters/'Rhubarbs' and 'Rangers'/D-Day and 'Divers'/Holland/Final Battles/Top Scorers/Appendices

Product details

• Authors: Chris Thomas
• Assisted by: Chris Davey (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1999
• EAN: 9781855327795
• ISBN: 978-1-85532-779-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 248 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Aircraft of the Aces; Osprey Aircraft of the Aces S.; Aircraft of the Aces; Osprey Aircraft of the Aces S.
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; History: specific events & topics, Military vehicles, Air forces & warfare, Warfare & defence, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History: specific events and topics, Air forces and warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space, HISTORY / Military / Vehicles / Air