Mosquito: Menacing the Reich: Combat Action in the Twin-engine Wooden Wonder of World War II
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844158233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s foremost aviation historians and has written many books and articles. . He lives in Norwich
I never received it!!!! longrifle reviews It looks good, but I never received it!!!!!. Mosquitoes Bite flakhappy Readers will rarely find an account of military action that is as complete as this one. The author's running account of missions involving Mossie planes includes not only the names of the crewmen, but the numbers of the individual planes they flew. It rarely interferes with the flow of the story. He divides the book into several parts, dealing with the kind of air warfare the squadrons were involved in. The Mosquitoes were used for several kinds of bombing as well as photo recc., so the operations were vastly different. In all accounts, it's a winner.. Not quite what I expected. Had thought this was going to be a technical history of the aircraft. Instead it tells the story via quite dry mission reports, however on persevering with the book I began to quite enjoy it. Definitely for enthusiasts only.
The text is interwoven with the background history of the personnel and squadrons, the purpose of the operations undertaken and their often devastating results.. This was an aircraft that would prove itself to be one of the most versatile and revered aircraft to fly with the RAF in World War II.This book is full of firsthand accounts from the crews that flew the ‘Mossie’ in its roles as a bomber, long-range reconnaissance and low-level strike aircraft. ‘On 15 November it came suddenly out of nowhere inches above the hangars with a crackling thunderclap of twin Merlins. As we watched, bewitched, it was flung about the sky in a beyond belief display for a bomber that could out perform any fighter. The author has gathered together many of the most exciting operational reports that cover the period from the type’s introduction until the end of World War II. Well-bred whisper of a touch down, a door op
One has to be impressed by the sheer variety of experiences recounted by the men who flew this remarkable aircraft, and full of admiration for them, especially for those who were flying the unarmed versions of the aircraft deep over German territory. - History of War Website