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US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Pacific War

Dorny Louis B
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841769110
Publisert
2007-10-04
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
378 gr
Høyde
248 mm
Bredde
184 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

Forfatter
Dorny Louis B
Illustratør
Laurier Jim

Biografisk notat

Retired US Navy Cdr Louis B Dorny was an acknowledged expert on America’s most famous flying-boat, the PBY Catalina, and was fascinated by its crucial employment against Japanese forces in the Pacific War. He interviewed numerous veteran crews during the course of his research over the past four decades. He sadly passed away in 2021.

Jim Laurier attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974–78 and has since been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. Jim is a Fellow member of the American Society of Aviation Artists, the New York Society of Illustrators and the American Fighter Aces Association.

US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Pacific War

Dorny Louis B
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Dorny Louis B
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, Consolidated's PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that the war raged across the Pacific in World War 2. Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force. Its amphibious traits also made the aircraft well suited to air-sea rescue, and thousands of Allied airman were plucked from a watery grave by PBY crews. Several thousand PBYs had been built by VJ-Day, and a vast percentage of these aircraft served with US Navy patrol squadrons in the Pacific. This book is the first volume to deal exclusively with the US Navy's PBY units and operations in the Pacific during World War 2.
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Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, Consolidated's PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that the war raged across the Pacific in World War 2. This book deals with tthe US Navy's PBY units and operations in the Pacific during World War 2.
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Introduction

War comes to Hawaii
The Philippines and South-west Pacific
The Aleutians
Midway
Guadalcanal
Up the Solomons Chain
Across the Pacific
On to the End

Appendices

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Illustrated with over 80 photographs and colour profiles detailing aircraft markings, this is the definitive history of an insight into the PBY's use by the US Navy and Allied forces in the Pacific during World War 2.
Les mer

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Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, Consolidated's PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that the war raged across the Pacific in World War 2. Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force. Its amphibious traits also made the aircraft well suited to air-sea rescue, and thousands of Allied airman were plucked from a watery grave by PBY crews. Several thousand PBYs had been built by VJ-Day, and a vast percentage of these aircraft served with US Navy patrol squadrons in the Pacific. This book is the first volume to deal exclusively with the US Navy's PBY units and operations in the Pacific during World War 2.
Les mer
Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, Consolidated's PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that the war raged across the Pacific in World War 2. This book deals with tthe US Navy's PBY units and operations in the Pacific during World War 2.
Les mer

Introduction

War comes to Hawaii
The Philippines and South-west Pacific
The Aleutians
Midway
Guadalcanal
Up the Solomons Chain
Across the Pacific
On to the End

Appendices

Les mer
Illustrated with over 80 photographs and colour profiles detailing aircraft markings, this is the definitive history of an insight into the PBY's use by the US Navy and Allied forces in the Pacific during World War 2.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841769110
Publisert
2007-10-04
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
378 gr
Høyde
248 mm
Bredde
184 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

Forfatter
Dorny Louis B
Illustratør
Laurier Jim

Biografisk notat

Retired US Navy Cdr Louis B Dorny was an acknowledged expert on America’s most famous flying-boat, the PBY Catalina, and was fascinated by its crucial employment against Japanese forces in the Pacific War. He interviewed numerous veteran crews during the course of his research over the past four decades. He sadly passed away in 2021.

Jim Laurier attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974–78 and has since been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. Jim is a Fellow member of the American Society of Aviation Artists, the New York Society of Illustrators and the American Fighter Aces Association.

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