David Isby

C-47/R4D Units of the ETO and MTO (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Davey, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The C-47 units of the USAAF were an integral part of some of the most dramatic episodes of the European war: the airborne assaults in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, southern France, Operation Market Garden and the crossing of the Rhine.

The mass fratricide off Sicily, the night drop for D-Day and the Bastogne supply missions are also covered, along with more typical accounts of training, formation flying, airdrops and casualty evacuation missions.

This book details an aircraft that remains a popular favourite and an acknowledged design classic, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782007135
• Artikelnr.: 44626397

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

Origins North Africa Sicily and the 'Soft Underbelly' D-Day and Normandy
Airborne Invasions and Air Resupply Italy and the Balkans Decisive Battles
and Victory A New Way of Air Warfare Appendix 1: USAAF USN C-47 Units In
ETO/MTO Appendix 2: The Aircraft