F4F Wildcat Vs A6M Zero-Sen (Häftad)
avEdward M. Young
ISBN: 9781780963228 - UTGIVEN: 201308The Grumman F4F Wildcat and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen were contemporaries, although designed to very different requirements. The Wildcat, ruggedly built to survive the rigors of carrier operations, was the best carrier fighter the US Navy had available when the USA entered World War II, and it rem[...]
F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-9 (Häftad)
avEdward M. Young
ISBN: 9781782003359 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03VF-9 was activated in March 1942 as part of Carrier Air Group (CAG) 9, one of the many air groups the US Navy was hurriedly forming in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Equipped with Grumman F4F Wildcats, VF-9 first saw combat during the Allied invasion of North Africa in Novembe[...]
F6f Hellcat vs A6M Zero-Sen (Häftad)
avEdward M. Young
ISBN: 9781782008132 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08The Grumman F6F Hellcat and Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen were the two principal opposing fighters in the brutal aerial clashes of the Pacific War from 1943 onwards. Reminiscent of the preceding F4F Wildcat, the F6F Hellcat was designed specifically to counter the earlier A6M2 Zero-sen, the strengths and [...]
Meiktila 1945 (Pocket)
avEdward M. Young
ISBN: 9781841766980 - UTGIVEN: 2004-06The battle of Meiktila was the decisive battle of the Burma campaign and resulted in the liberation of Burma, the capture of Rangoon and the virtual destruction of the Japanese Burma Area Army. General William Slim believed that it would be possible to re-conquer Burma over land if the Japanese army[...]
American Aces Against the Kamikaze (Pocket)
avEdward M. Young
ISBN: 9781849087452 - UTGIVEN: 201210The Japanese High Command realised that the loss of Okinawa would give the Americans a base for the invasion of Japan. Its desperate response was to unleash the full force of the Special Attack Units, known in the west as the Kamikaze ("Divine Wind"). In a series of mass attacks in between April and[...]
