Fleet Air Arm Legends: Supermarine Seafire

Author: Matthew Willis
Publisher: Tempest
ISBN: 1911658824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Renowned naval aviation author Matthew Willis tells the story of the Supermarine Seafire – a navalized version of the famous Spitfire adapted for use on aircraft carriers. Some 2646 examples were built and saw action with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm from November 1942 until after the Korean War in the early 1950s. It was involved in combat during the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch), the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy, the D-Day landings, and Operation Dragoon in southern France. With the Pacific fleet, the Seafire proved capable of intercepting and destroying the feared Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft.

British Books in Print

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2096

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Whitaker's Cumulative Book List

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1270

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The Bookseller

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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The Power for Flight

Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9781626830370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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The NACA and aircraft propulsion, 1915-1958 -- NASA gets to work, 1958-1975 -- The shift toward commercial aviation, 1966-1975 -- The quest for propulsive efficiency, 1976-1989 -- Propulsion control enters the computer era, 1976-1998 -- Transiting to a new century, 1990-2008 -- Toward the future

Spitfire International

Author: Helmut Terbeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851302508
Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane)
Languages : da
Pages : 480

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En detaljeret fortegnelse over de lande, der i tidens løb har haft det britisk-producerede "Spitfire"-jagerfly i deres flyvevåben. Indeholder oplysninger om de individuelle fly med angivelse af bl. a. registrerings- og serienumre samt det enkelte flys "historie".

Supermarine Spitfire

Author: Alfred Price
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9781785215742
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the full co-operation and authorisation of the Royal Air Force. Here is a unique perspective on what it takes to own, restore and operate a Spitfire, as well as an insight into the engineering and construction of this remarkable fighter aircraft. This highly detailed book is based around the Spitfire Mk IX at RAF Coningsby.

Spitfire Manual 1940

Author: Dilip Sarkar
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445607956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
How to fly the legendary Spitfire fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions (pilot notes) supplied by the RAF during the Second World War.

The Korean War

Author: Stanley Sandler
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813157218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
The Korean War has been termed "The Forgotten War" or the "Unknown War." It is a conflict which never assumed the mythic character of the American Civil War or World War II. However, this book asserts, it would be impossible to understand the Cold War and indeed post 1945 global history without knowledge of the Korean War. Providing a history of the Korean peninsula before the war and including a detailed analysis of the fighting itself, The Korean War goes beyond the battlefield to deal with the war in the air, ground attack, and air evacuation. The study also evaluates the contributions of the UN naval forces, the impact of the war on various homefronts and issues such as defectors, opposition to the war, racial segregation and integration, POWs and the media. Recently-released Soviet documents are used to assess the role of China, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea and the allied forces in the conflict. This fascinating work offers a unique analysis of the Korean War and will be invaluable to students of twentieth-century history, particularly those concerned with American and Pacific history.

Men of The Battle of Britain

Author: Kenneth G. Wynn
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473847680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3288

Book Description
Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of 1940.The book records the service details of the airmen who took part in the Battle of Britain in considerable detail. Where known, postings and their dates are included, as well as promotions, decorations and successes claimed flying against the enemy. There is also much personal detail, often including dates and places of birth, civilian occupations, dates of death and place of burial or, for those with no known grave, place of commemoration. There are many wartime head-and-shoulders photographs. Inevitably the high achievers who survived tend to have the longest entries, but those who were killed very quickly, sometimes even on their first sortie, are given equal status.The 2015 third edition will include new names and corrected spellings, as well as many new photographs. Plenty of the entries have been extended with freshly acquired information. The stated nationalities of some of the airmen have been re-examined and, for example, one man always considered to be Australian is now known to have been Irish.