About this Product. Biographical Note. Edward M. Young is a retired financial executive with degrees in Political Science from Harvard University and the University of Washington.
He has written a number of books and numerous articles on aviation and military history. He is the author of eight Osprey books and lives in Seattle, Washington.
He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since , and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes. It was in this last capacity that the B established a unique role as a 'bridge-buster'. This provided significant support for the British Fourteenth Army as they advanced into Burma. Fully illustrated with detailed cutaway artwork, this book tells the important, yet forgotten story of B operations in the CBI Theatre and the important role that this aircraft played on the road to victory.
The first of four volumes planned for the Combat Aircraft series on the Mitchell, this title includes first-hand accounts, 30 colour profiles and more than colour and black and white photographs of the B in the MTO. With longer range and a greater load-carrying capacity than the B, the B was well-suited to the demands of the CBI. These two groups, the 7th and the th, carried the war to the Japanese across China and South East Asia, flying over some of the most difficult terrain in the world.
The th had the added burden of having to carry its own fuel and bombs over the Himalayan 'Hump' from India to China in support of its missions.
Identical to its air force counterpart, except for its ability to lay mines, deploy depth charges and launch torpedoes, some PBJs were delivered to the Marine Corps from This book outlines the aircraft's history and technology, and takes a closer look at the men who flew it. First adapted to the ground attack role by units of the Twelfth Air Force in early , the strength and durability of the P airframe, along with its massive size, earned it the nickname 'Juggernaut', which was quickly shortened to 'Jug' throughout the MTO and ETO.
By October , with the creation of the Fifteenth Air Force, nearly half of the Twelfth's fighter groups would be retasked with strategic escort missions, leaving six groups to perform close air support and interdiction missions throughout the entire Mediterranean theatre.
The groups inflicted incredible damage on the enemy's transport routes in particular, using rockets, bombs, napalm and machine-gun rounds to down bridges, blow up tunnels and strafe trains. Myriad first-hand accounts and period photography reveal the spectacular success enjoyed by the Thunderbolt in the MTO in the final year of the war.
Capable of flying low-level strafing or conventional bombing missions by simply changing the nose configuration of the aircraft, the Invader first saw action in in the Pacific Theatre attacking Japanese-held islands. Arriving in Europe several months later, the A served with distinction for the remainder of World War 2.
In fact, the design proved so successful that it would go on to fly combat missions for a further two decades. Written by military aviation expert, Jerry Scutts, and illustrated with brand-new colour profiles and rare photography, this is the first book to focus exclusively on the A's missions in World War 2.
Although initially dubbed 'the widow maker', a change of tactics from low- to medium-level bombing for the Marauder soon improved the crews' chances of survival — indeed, by war's end it boasted a lower loss-per-sortie ratio than any other twin-engined bomber in the USAAF. This volume covers all aspects of Marauder operations in Western Europe during World War II , featuring first hand accounts from surviving B crews, plus an analysis of the tactics employed.
The Boeing B, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
The revolutionary design of the B and its associated flight characteristics initially gained it a reputation as a 'widow maker' receiving nicknames such as 'The Baltimore Whore' and 'The Flying Prostitute' - both a reference to its short wingspan, i.
Gradual improvements to the design and the development of effective combat tactics enabled these units to make the B a very effective and safe combat aircraft; it went on to play a major role in the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany. The bombing accuracy of the Bs was unrivalled and they were therefore selected to bomb targets such as the Florentine rail network.
Hastily trained on an airplane with a bad reputation and rushed into combat in North Africa, the MTO B groups went on to gain an enviable reputation for bombing accuracy and low combat loss rate.
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