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Author : David Doyle
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764354328
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curtiss P-40 Warhawk written by David Doyle and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curtiss P-40 had a production run of 13,738 aircraft, making it the third most produced US fighter of WWII. Famous as the "shark-mouthed" aircraft of the legendary American Volunteer Group -- "Flying Tigers" -- the P-40 was first flown in 1938, and was used by the United States and many of its Allies throughout the war. This volume tells the story of this iconic aircraft -- from design and construction to combat use to detailed images of existing examplesthrough carefully researched photos, some of which have never before been published, and which are reproduced in remarkable clarity. These stunning photos, coupled with descriptive and informative captions, put the reader in the skies with this historic aircraft.

Author : Lou Drendel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897473613
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walk Around P-40 Warhawk written by Lou Drendel and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskrivelse af det amerikanske jagerfly P-40 Warhawk

Author : Carl Molesworth
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780969091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curtiss P-40 written by Carl Molesworth and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the design, development, and operational history of the Curtiss P-40, the primary American fighter when the country entered World War II.

Author : Carl Molesworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800850
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P-40 Warhawk Aces of the Pacific written by Carl Molesworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first USAAF fighters to engage the Japanese in World War 2, a handful of P-40s rose to defend Pearl Harbor from attack on the morning of 7 December 1941. Warhawk units were also heavily involved in the ill-fated fight to stem invading Japanese forces in the Philippines and Java between December 1941 and April 1942 and again in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands between January 1943 and March 1944. This book examines The Warhawk's wartime exploits and all of its aces including 'aces-in-a-day' Mel Wheadon and Joe Lesika.

Author : Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf
Publisher : Edizioni R.E.I.
ISBN 13 : 2372973290
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Bell P-39 Airacobra - Curtiss P-40 written by Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf and published by Edizioni R.E.I.. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lockheed P-38J Lightning aircraft was revolutionary, extremely innovative, thanks to double-girder fuselage, the two Allison V-engines with turbochargers within the tail beams and landing gear in tricycle. The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a single-engine fighter produced by the US to low-wing Bell Aircraft Corporation. It was the most controversial fighter aircraft used by the US during World War II. It was the first fighter in the world to have the engine installed in the middle of the fuselage, behind the pilot. The Bell P-63 Kingcobra was a single-engine low-wing fighter aircraft developed by the US Air Force Bell Aircraft Corporation in the early forties and used during World War II. Evolution of the previous P-39 Airacobra, launched in an attempt to correct the defects of that model, the United States Army Air Forces will never estimated suitable for combat, relegating him to the towing role for targets. As a result, nearly two-thirds of the production was assigned to the Soviet Union and about 300 units to units of Free France. The Curtiss P-40 was a single-seat single-engine monoplane US manufacturing in the first half of the forties was taken by the Allies as a fighter aircraft or fighter in many of the theaters in which you fought the Second World War. Produced by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, never was an aircraft with exceptional characteristics (mainly because of its engine, underpowered at high altitude); However, it was also made of a large number of specimens, and his great strength (coupled with its widespread availability since the early months of the entry into the war) made it one of the most important fighter for American aviation events in the first phase of World war II, between 1941 and the summer of 1943.

Author : Zbigniew Kolacha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788366673380
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curtiss P-40 Vol. I written by Zbigniew Kolacha and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Molesworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782005498
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI written by Carl Molesworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the colourful experiences of the elite pilots of the AAF's Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces in the 'forgotten' China-Burma-India theatre during WW2. Inheriting the legacy of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), units such as the 23rd FG 'held the line' against overwhelming Japanese forces until the arrival of the first P-38s and P-51s in 1944. The Warhawk became synonymous with the efforts of the AAF in the CBI, being used by some 40 aces to claim five or more kills between 1942-45. This volume is the first of four covering the exploits with the P-40 during World War 2.

Author : Krzysztof Janowicz
Publisher : Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9788360445358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curtiss P-40 written by Krzysztof Janowicz and published by Monographs. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Includes free decals and masking foil The first part of a monograph on Curtiss P-40 constitutes a thorough insight into its origins and development of the versions B, C, D and E. Each version is specified and described with coverage of changes made in its variants and sub-variants, including the special modifications for the foreign recipients. A separate chapter is devoted to the combat use of the early versions of P-40 in the RAF and the RAAF service in North Africa and the Middle East, where P-40, called Tomahawk or Kittyhawk, proved to be the most effective Allied fighter until the arrival of Spitfire Mk Vs. The book also features short accounts of the Soviet use of P-40 and dramatic action of U.S. P-40s in the defense of Pearl Harbor. Complete with 92 pages, 102 photographs, 24 sheets of technical drawings in 1:48 and 1:72 scale with specification of external changes in production-run versions of the aircraft, 9 color charts with 11 examples of camouflage schemes. About the Series Monographs focuses on an individual type of aircraft. Each monograph contains descriptions of the aircraft's origin, its variants and combat history. Each volume includes several hundred archive photographs, technical scale drawings and color profile artwork. Each book also has free extras for modelers, with decals and masking foil.

Author : Richard Ward
Publisher : ARCO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curtiss Kittyhawk MKI-IV in RAF-SAAF-RAAF-RNZAF-RCAF-NEIAF Service written by Richard Ward and published by ARCO. This book was released on 1969 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Molesworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800648
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P-40 Warhawk Aces of the MTO written by Carl Molesworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrown into action following the Torch landings of late 1942, the 'green' American pilots flying the obsolescent P-40F suffered cruelly at the hands of seasoned German fighter pilots flying superior machines. Those that survived learnt quickly, and a handful of Warhawk pilots succeeded in making ace by the time the Axis forces surrendered in North Africa. The action then shifted to Sicily and Italy, and the P-40 remained in service until mid-1944. This book charts the careers of the 23 men who succeeded in making ace during that time, despite the advent of much better P-47 and P-51 fighters.