Peter De Jong

Dornier Do 24 Units (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Davey, Chris; Postlethwaite, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An illustrated history of a remarkable aircraft, the Dornier Do 24, which served both military and humanitarian purposes.

Perhaps the most seaworthy flying boat ever built, the elegant, tri-motor Dornier Do 24 served with both the Allied and Axis forces in very different parts of the globe during World War 2, garnering an excellent reputation along the way. This study uses archival records, first-hand accounts and revealing photographs to illuminate the combat career of this remarkable aircraft for the first time in English.

The German-built Do 24 was the Netherlands Navy's principal aerial asset during the Japanese invasion of the East Indies. While the survivors of that ordeal served in the Australian Air force, in occupied Holland and France production continued apace and the Do 24 equipped the German Air-Sea rescue service, whose crews loved and respected the machine. The type witnessed the rise and fall of the Luftwaffe over all the European seas, took part in the desperate evacuations of Wehrmacht troops on the Baltic in the face of the overwhelming Soviet advance, and was pressed out of service only with the withdrawal of Spanish Do 24s in 1969.

This volume tells the long and eventful story of the faithful Do 24 in full.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472805720
• Artikelnr.: 43418528

Autorenporträt

A professional editor and translator, Peter de Jong has collaborated on numerous modern history and aviation history books, and written several books of his own and dozens of magazine articles since 1995. For Osprey he covered the Dornier Do 24 flying boat and the Fokker D.XXI fighter.

Inhaltsangabe

Development (1934
1939) Initial service (1938
41
Dutch and Weserübung) The Pacific War (1942
44
Dutch and Australian service) German service (1940
1945) Spanish and French service (1944
1969) Appendices