Lightning aces of the pacific cbi

Informationen zum Autor John Stanaway, illustrated by Iain Wyllie, Tom Tullis, Mike Chappell, Mark Styling Klappentext The P-38 was used on virtually every front to which the USAAF were committed, but enjoyed its greatest successes in the Pacific and China-Burma-India (CBI) theatres. The speed, range and firepower of the P-38 made it the favourite of nearly all aircrew fighting in the Solomons, New Guinea and the Philippines, and over 1800 Japanese aircraft fell to its guns. From the first encounters at the end of 1942 until the Lightning scored the final Fifth Air force victories in August 1945, these pilots made the Pacific skies very much their own battleground. Zusammenfassung Aces such as USAAF pilots Dick Bong and Tom McGuire used the P-38 Lightning to accrue some of the highest scores of Allied fighter pilots in World War II. Described here, the P-38 was born of the need for a high speed, high altitude fighter to escort the B-17 bomber on raids. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction/Early Operations/The Yamamoto Mission/Wewak, Rabaul and Hollandia /Lessons from Hollandia/The Philippines/P-38 Aces of the CBI/Bong and McGuire/Appendices

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• Authors: John Stanaway, Stanaway John, john Stanway
• Assisted by: Tom Tullis (Illustration), Tullis Tom (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1997
• EAN: 9781855326330
• ISBN: 978-1-85532-633-0
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 248 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Osprey Aircraft of the Aces S.; Aircraft of the Aces (Osprey); Aircraft of the Aces; Aircraft of the Aces (Osprey); Osprey Aircraft of the Aces S.
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