B 17 flying fortress units of the - pacific war

Informationen zum Autor Martin Bowman was the author of the three highly-successful Mosquito volumes in the Combat Aircraft series. He has also written over a dozen titles on the 'Mighty Eighth' over the past 15 years, having interviewed many veterans both in the UK and the USA. Klappentext The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbor during the midst of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack. By the end of the war, SB-17 rescue craft were saving combat crews in the waters off Japan. This book reveals why, to the public, the Flying Fortress was better known than the Spitfire, the Boeing 747, or Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis. The name recognition enjoyed by the B-17 was that company's reason for creating B-17 Steak Sauce and Osprey's reason to round out the saga of this great wartime aircraft. Zusammenfassung The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbor during the midst of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack. By the end of the war, SB-17 rescue craft were saving combat crews in the waters off Japan. This book reveals why, to the public, the Flying Fortress was better known than the Spitfire, the Boeing 747, or Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis. The name recognition enjoyed by the B-17 was that company's reason for creating B-17 Steak Sauce and Osprey's reason to round out the saga of this great wartime aircraft.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Bowman, Martin W. Bowman
• Assisted by: Mark Styling (Illustration), Styling Mark (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2003
• EAN: 9781841764818
• ISBN: 978-1-84176-481-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 248 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Combat Aircraft; Osprey Combat Aircraft; Combat Aircraft; Osprey Combat Aircraft
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, Military vehicles, Air forces & warfare, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Australasian and Pacific history, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space, HISTORY / Military / Vehicles / Air