JANE´S FIGHTING AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II – A comprehensive encyclopedia with more than 1000 illustrations
Inbunden bok. Tiger Books International. 1989. 318 sidor.
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Air power dominated World War II. For the first time in war, aircraft played the decisive role, revolutionizing the way in which wars have been waged since then.
Aircraft were responsible for the destruction of whole cities – Dresden and Hamburg were burned to the ground – and it was air power that delivered the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb, which hastened Japan´s surrender.
On land, armies depended upon air power; the German Stukas spectacularly demonstrated this during thew early Blitzkrieg campaigns. At sea, all kind of warships, from battleships downwards, were destroyed from the air, and the aircraft carrier became the principal capital ship of the warring navies. At Midway, one of the great turning points of the war, the enemy fleets were never in direct contact: the decisive blows were delivered by aircraft.
This edition of JANE´S FIGHTING AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II presents photographs, line drawings and data tables for all of the many aircraft types that took part in World War II, including those of Germany, Italy and Japan. Based on the best contemporary edition iof this world-famous reference book, it provides the reader with a uniquely authoritative single-volume encyclopedia.
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