Author: Mark StylingBrand Osprey PublishingList Pri
Publisher:
Keywords: aces, aircraft, osprey, world, corsair, war
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1995-11-13
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1855325306
ISBN-13: 9781855325302
Aircraft of the Aces Series
Author: Thisbe Nissen
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: island, osprey
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0385720629
ISBN-13: 9780385720625
As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island’s one and only hotel — are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge’s owners, who’s looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tra
Author: Jerry Scutts
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: manuals, modelling, osprey, messerschmitt
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-01-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1841762652
ISBN-13: 9781841762654
With number 17 the Osprey Modelling Manuals start a regular subseries on modelling specific aircraft types. The first covers the standard Luftwaffe single-seat fighter of the early years of WW2, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the mount of aces such as Adolf Galland and Werner Mölders. With detailed step-by-step model photography, specially commissioned walkround photography, scale drawings and wartime shots, these books will provide all the details needed to model the main Bf109 version — the 109E ‘Emil’ — and other variants, particularly the ‘Gustav’, the most numerous of all Bf 109 t
Author: Koji Takaki
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: elite, aviation, osprey, jaaf, hunters
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-11-25
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1841761613
ISBN-13: 9781841761619
’B-29!’ No other term struck such terror in the hearts of the Japanese public during World War 2 than this single, most-hated name. It was then only natural that the pilots who attempted to shoot these high-flying Boeing bombers out of the skies over Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Kobe should become known as the elite of the Japanese Army Air Force. This book details the exploits of the ‘Dragon Slayers’ who, flying the very latest single- and twin-engined fighters, exacted a heavy toll on the AAF Boeing bombers using a range of tactics including ramming.
Author: Roger Freeman
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: aviation, elite, osprey, group, fighter, 56th
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1841760471
ISBN-13: 9781841760476
This book charts the history of the first Thunderbolt group to see action in the European Theatre. The 56th Fighter Group was the only unit within the Eighth Air Force to remain equipped with the mighty P-47 until war’s end. This group was responsible for devising many of the bomber escort tactics employed by VIII Fighter Command between. By war’s end the 56th FG had shot down more enemy aircraft than any other in the Eighth Air Force, its pilots being credited with 674.5 kills during 447 missions. The group also produced the ETO’s two leading aces, Francis Gabreski and Robert Johnson.
Author: Barrett Tillman
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: osprey, combat, aircraft, war, world, dauntless, units, sbd
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1998-11-27
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1855327325
ISBN-13: 9781855327320
Unquestionably the most successful dive-bomber ever to see frontline service with any air arm, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War. The revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design of the SBD exhibited airframe strength that made it an ideal dive-bomber, its broad wing, with horizontal centre section and sharply tapered outer panels with dihedral, boasting perforated split flaps that doubled as dive brakes during the steep bombing attacks
Author: Robert F. Dorr
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: combat, aircraft, osprey, war, units, pacific, liberator
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1855327813
ISBN-13: 9781855327818
Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the Japanese storm with a handful of bomb groups, which played a crucial role in checking the enemy’s progress firstly in New Guinea, and then actively participating in the ’island hopping’ campaign through the south-west Pacific.
