Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Macchi C.205 Veltro Walk Around
Author: Maurizio Di TerlizziPublisher: MMD-Squadron Signal
ISBN: 9780897475723
Category : Veltro (Fighter plane)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With Allied bombing raids increasing in 1942, Italy's High Command launched a competition for Serie 5 (5th series) fighters. Fitted with a German DB.605 engine, the sleek Macchi C.205s proved to be able to blast Spitfires out of the sky after they were introduced in November 1942. The addition of a wing-mounted 20mm in the spring of 1943 enabled the C.205 to take on US heavy bombers as well. Following the Italian Armistice, some C.205s turned their guns on Axis aircraft with success as well, even as Mussolini's loyalists continued to fly the plane in the colors of the German-backed "Social Republic" in the north. The Germans took advantage of the fighter, temporarily equipping an entire Gruppe of JG77. After the war, modified C.205s went on to serve the Royal Egyptian Air Force during its 1948 war with Israel.
Author: Nico SgarlatoMacchi C.205 Veltro
Author: Przemyslaw SkulskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9788365958709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Comprehensive technical details of the Macchi, C.205 VeltroProduction and service photos. A wide range of color profiles. Rare color photographs from W.W.II.Detailed photographs featuring modern highly accurate restorations, inside and out, and including under rebuild and servicing details.Profusely illustrated with photos, including a comprehensive walk-around section showing all aspects of the airframe, and diagrams from official manuals.This book provides all the core technical details of the Macchi, C.205 Veltro in one compact, economical volume.Essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aeromodellers.Scale plans of all versions. color profiles.
Hitler's Forgotten Secret Weapon
Author: Leonard JamesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907791536
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
In this book, the author, the son of a Battle of Britain RAF veteran, traces the development of the He113 Wonder Fighter from the drawing board at Heinkel to the war torn skies over Britain in the fateful summer of 1940.
Italian Aces of World War 2
Author: Giorgio ApostoloPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782008551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Flying aircraft such as the Macchi 200-202, Fiat G.50 and biplane Fiat CR.42, the Italian fighter pilots were recognised by their Allied counterparts as brave opponents blessed with sound flying abilities, but employing under-gunned and underpowered equipment. Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, a number of aces continued to take the fight to the Allies as part of the Luftwaffe-run ANR, which was equipped with far more potent equipment such as the Bf 109G, Macchi 205V and Fiat G.55. Flying these types, the handful of ANR squadrons continued to oppose Allied bombing raids on northern Italy until VE-Day.
Camouflage and Markings of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, 1943-1945
Author: Ferdinando D'AmicoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903223291
Category : 2. verdenskrig
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
- This is the first thorough analysis in the English language of the camouflage and markings of the Aeronautica Nationale Repubblicana. - Includes hundreds of previously unpublished photos showing camouflage and systems markings. - This work's thoroughness will undoubtedly make it the defining reference on the subject.
Croatian Aces of World War 2
Author: Boris CiglicPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147280046X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Initially flying Italian-supplied Fiat G.50s, the Croat forces suffered heavy losses during 1942 whilst flying alongside JG 52 in the southern sector of the Russian front. Despite this, a significant number of kills fell to future aces such as Cvitan Galic and Mato Dubovak during this time, and when the units re-equipped with Bf 109G-10s in 1943, battle-seasoned Croat pilots started to rack up impressive scores. This book reveals how, by 1944, Croat air groups were defending Yugoslavia from British and American air raids, and in the final months of the war a handful of surviving pilots fought on until final defeat in May 1945.
Author: Roberto GentilliIn the Skies of Europe
Author: Hans Werner NeulenPublisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781861267993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the Second World War the air forces and pilots of the countries allied to Germany played a greater role than hitherto conceded by historians. In this book, Hans Werner Neulen has gathered an enormous amount of information on the air forces of eight countries and the various foreign airmen [including Russian] who fought with the Luftwaffe. Their operations, mostly carried out in conditions of numerical inferiority, their successes and failures, as well as the motivation of the aircrew and their often tragic fate are all incorporated into this comprehensive account.
