C-47/R4d Skytrain Units of the Pacific and Cbi by Isby, David

C-47/R4d Skytrain Units of the Pacific and Cbi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781846030468)

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C-47/R4d Skytrain Units of the Pacific and Cbi by Isby, David

C-47/R4d Skytrain Units of the Pacific and Cbi

$25.00
C-47/R4d Skytrain Units of the Pacific and Cbi by Isby, David

C-47/R4d Skytrain Units of the Pacific and Cbi

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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C-47 is an aircraft that remains a popular favourite and an acknowledged classic design, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers. The C-47's wartime operations paved the way for post-war military air transport. It also demonstrated how the USAAF was able to invest in and carry out a mission that it had not devoted much time to preparing for in terms of pre-war doctrine (in contrast to strategic bombing). In addition to linking theatres (by flying across 'the Hump'), it showed how vital it was to operations within a theatre like New Guinea. Even if massed airborne invasions were not carried out in the PTO/CBI, all air arms need transports like the C-47.

Author: David Isby
ISBN-10: 1846030463
ISBN-13: 9781846030468
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2007
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.44h x 7.32w x 0.26d
By David Isby
By David Isby
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David C Isby is an experienced author, having written or edited 20 books (including OSPREY Combat Aircraft 54 - C-47/R4D Units of the ETO/MTO) and over 350 articles in journals such as Janes's Intelligence Review and Air Force Monthly. His work on World War 2 military aviation includes Jane's At the Controls - The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (London, 1999, Harper Collins) and editing three volumes of Luftwaffe accounts. He is an experienced pilot (and son of a USAAF C-47 navigator). The author lives in Virginia, USA.

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