Thunderbolt
The P-47
Published on 6. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-7434-2397-7 (ISBN)
Description
The key to victory in World War II lay in wresting control of the skies from the Nazis. America's most courageous pilots hurled their underrated P-47 Thunderbolts time and again against the Luftwaffe's over-whelming power, and won. This is the true story of one of the greatest Thunderbolt aces of all, Robert S Johnson: his training, his early failures, his brushes with death and his 28 kills that helped smash the German juggernaut. Step by step, dogfight by dogfight, manoeuvre by manoeuvre, he details daring aerial exploits against monumental odds with America's fabled 56th Fighter Group, a special breed of men who changed the course of history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7434-2397-7 (9780743423977)
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Martin Caidin was the author of over fifty books and more than a thousand magazine articles and was recognized as one of the outstanding aeronautics and aviation authorities in the world. The National War College, the Air Forces Air University and several other institutions use his books as doctrine and strategy guides, historical references and textbooks. He twice won the Aviation/Space Writers Association award as the outstanding author in the field of aviation. Caidin died in March 1997.