David Isby

C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Davey, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the humble Douglas C-47/R4D carried out missions every bit as strategically important, and as dramatic for the aircrew involved, as those of the fighters and bombers in the vast Pacific/CBI theatres.

The C-47's wartime operations paved the way for post-war military and civil air transport, proving that aircraft could safely conduct routine flights from the USA, Australia and India throughout the Pacific and South-east Asia. The flights also demonstrated how the USAAF was able to invest in, and carry out, a mission that it had barely prepared for in terms of doctrine pre-war. In addition to linking theatres, the C-47 found itself in the vanguard of combat operations on virtually a daily basis in New Guinea, Burma, the Philippines, the SWPA and China.

The importance of these missions, and the dangers faced by crews tasked with carrying them out, is chronicled in numerous first-hand accounts from the aircrew involved in this unique volume on the Allies' favourite transport aircraft of World War 2.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782007142
• Artikelnr.: 44626369

Autorenporträt

David C Isby is an experienced author, having written or edited 20 books and over 350 articles in journals such as Jane's Intelligence Review and Air Force Monthly. His work on World War 2 military aviation includes Jane's At the Controls - The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (London, 1999, Harper Collins) and editing three volumes of Luftwaffe accounts. He is an experienced pilot (and son of a USAAF C-47 navigator).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Opening 1941
42 Chapter 2
Build
up 1941
43 Chapter 3
Pacific 1942
43 Chapter 4
CBI 1942
43 Chapter 5
Pacific 1943
44 Chapter 6
The CBI 1944
45 Chapter 7
The Pacific 1944
45 Chapter 8
Victory and Conclusion