B-17 Flying Fortress Jackson RobertPaperback / softback
B-17 Flying Fortress Jackson RobertPaperback / softback From a former pilot and military expert comes a superbly illustrated and technically detailed look at an iconic fighter plane: the B-17 Flying…
Specifikacia B-17 Flying Fortress Jackson RobertPaperback / softback
B-17 Flying Fortress Jackson RobertPaperback / softback
From a former pilot and military expert comes a superbly illustrated and technically detailed look at an iconic fighter plane: the B-17 Flying Fortress.Designed in the mid-1930s, the Boeing B-17 became a mainstay of Allied bombing raids against Nazi Germany. B-17 Flying Fortress gives a complete account of the aircraft from its first appearance--in response to a 1934 Army Air Corps specification--to its retirement. Unremitting and crushing attacks by hordes of these planes helped bring the Third Reich to its knees and drove the German high command to consider ever-more-desperate antidotes to aerial intruders.
A final chapter details the B-17 variants, including the YB-40, a It covers the B-17's design and development history, with its ever-increasing armaments; the units that operated this legendary bomber; how missions were flown; and the aircraft's wartime career.
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