SDB 'Dauntless' Units of World War 2 - Print on Demand

Informationen zum Autor Barrett Tillman is a professional author and speaker with more than 40 nonfiction books as well as novels to his credit. His first book, published in 1976, remains in print today as do most of his subsequent titles. He holds seven awards for history and literature including the 1996 Tailhook Association Lifetime Achievement Award and third place in the US Naval Institute Prize in 2009. Tillman has appeared in more than a dozen documentaries including The History Channel’s Dogfights . Klappentext Unquestionably the most successful dive-bomber ever to see frontline service with any air arm, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War. The revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design of the SBD exhibited airframe strength that made it an ideal dive-bomber, its broad wing, with horizontal centre section and sharply tapered outer panels with dihedral, boasting perforated split flaps that doubled as dive brakes during the steep bombing attacks Zusammenfassung Unquestionably the most successful dive-bomber ever to see frontline service with any air arm, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War. The revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design of the SBD exhibited airframe strength that made it an ideal dive-bomber, its broad wing, with horizontal centre section and sharply tapered outer panels with dihedral, boasting perforated split flaps that doubled as dive brakes during the steep bombing attacks Inhaltsverzeichnis The Scout-Bombing Mission Early Combat Coral Sea and Midway Guadalcanal and the Solomons Central Pacific and the Philippines Banshees and Foreign Dauntlesses Perspective Appendices

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• Autori: Barrett Tillman, Tillman Barrett
• Con la collaborazione di: Tom Tullis (Illustrazione), Tullis Tom (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Osprey Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.11.1998
• EAN: 9781855327320
• ISBN: 978-1-85532-732-0
• Pagine: 98
• Dimensioni: 184 mm x 248 mm x 7 mm
• Serie: Combat Aircraft; Osprey Combat Aircraft; Combat Aircraft; Osprey Combat Aircraft
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