Fighting Firsts : Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts From 1914-1944,9781854094438

Fighting Firsts : Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts From 1914-1944

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ISBN13: 9781854094438
ISBN10: 1854094432
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Octopus Pub Group
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Summary

With fighter planes it can be as simple as this: those with the better aircraft generally win. Take a look at the fighters and their firsts, from the beginning of air combat in World War One through World War Two's dogfights and blitzkriegs. Some aircraft made their mark immediately; others initially showed less promise but then came through with flying colors. Also center stage are the pilots who worked miracles with their machines and became as famous as the planes they flew.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(11)
First Blood The Earliest Fighters, 1914-1916
11(14)
Biplanes, Boelcke and the Baron Halberstadt and Albatros Scouts, 1916-1917
25(6)
A Deadlier Breed Fighter Development, 1916-1917
31(22)
The Triplane Craze Sopwith Triplane and Fokker Dr.1, 1916-1918
53(12)
Passing Glimpses of Things to Come Fighters of 1918
65(16)
A New Generation Fighters of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
81(15)
First Shots of a Second World War Czechoslovakian, Polish, German, French and Dutch Fighters, 1930-1940
96(21)
The Immortals Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, 1939-1940
117(9)
Zero Hour Japanese Fighters, 1937-1942
126(17)
Under Foreign Management 1939-1942
143(20)
The Tide-Turning Generation American Fighters, 1941-1943
163(23)
Illustrious Beginnings Fairey Fulmar and Firefly, 1940-1944
186(1)
The Axis Strikes Back Axis Fighters, 1941-1944
186(13)
Red Resurgence Soviet Fighters, 1941-1944
199(12)
Aerial Supremacy over the Islands: Vought F4U Corsair and Grumman F6F Hellcat, 1943
211(17)
Heavy Hitters Cannon-Armed Fighters, 1940-1944
228(20)
Duelling in the Dark Night Fighters, 1940-1944
248(15)
Odds and Ends Improvisations and Developmental Dead-Ends, 1940-1945
263(28)
Dawn of a New Era Messerschmitt Me 262 and Gloster Meteor, 1944
291(10)
Bibliography 301(6)
Index 307

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