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The latest book from Detail & Scale is a unique look at all of the American carrier-based fighters, scout/dive bombers, and torpedo bombers of World War II. Each of the well-known aircraft types are covered, but so too are the lesser known aircraft that r
Published August 2022, 264 pages, 64 black & white and colour photographs, glossary. bibliography, index, hardcover, 7" x 10 inches
U.S. Naval Air Superiority examines the Navy's internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to its style of warfare as well as the development and evolution of carrier-borne fighters and their airframes and engines, from the closing days of World War II thro
Published August 2024, 89 pages, 275 black & white and 13 color photos, 30 drawings, 41 patches, 8 1/2 x11" inches
Limited Edition of 1,000 copies.
Though it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy's USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took part in every major action of the Pacific War, from the Doolittle Raid to the battles of Midway, Santa Cruz,
USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle’s raiders in the first US strike on Japan in May 1942, was the third and last Yorktown-class aircraft carrier completed. Serving the US N
USS Intrepid, the "Fighting I," was one of America’s longest-serving aircraft carriers. Launched during WWII, Decommissioned after WWII, Intrepid was recommissioned in 1955 and designated as an attack carrier (CVA), and later an antisubmarine carrier.
USS Lexington (CV-16), a member of the famed Essex class of carriers that made up the backbone of the US Navy’s carrier force in WWII, served its nation from WWII into the 1990s. With almost a half-million arrested landings recorded, arguably more naval a
Published December 2022, 144 pages, 258 black & white photographs, hardcover, 9" x 9"
++NOTE ANOTHER VOLUME IN THIS SERIES COVERS USS Lexington CV-16 / CVA-16 ++
Published October 2022, 144 pages, 360 black & white photographs, hardcover, 9" x 9"
One of the true land-marks of flight, this book covers its limited yet devastating use during WWII.
Schiffer Military History Series
Published 1997, 48 pages, 80 black & white photographs, softcover, 11" x 8.3"
Vertical Take-Off Fighter Aircraft is an illustrated history of concepts, experimental, and operational military VTO & VTOL aircraft. The book starts with wartime German projects such as the Focke Wulf Treibflugel, Heinkel Wespe, and VTO rocket fighters.
Published 2023, 112 pages, Over 190 colour and black & white photographss, hardcover, 9" x 9".
From the war-torn skies over Europe to the empty expanses of the Pacific, pilots were the vanguard of the American military machine during the dark days of World War II...……...
Wrecks & Relics: 15th edition HC
Published 1996, 368 pages, black & white photographs, index, hardcover, 6" x 9 3/8" inches