Would you prefer "A walkers guide FROM aircraft wrecks"?
A new book in my library. (3 Viewers)
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LOL Geo, the book is full of info, Map number locations, List of Crew and if they survived or not, serial number of aircraft and some general info on the aircraft such as cargo or training flight, ferry flight and so on. So far Ive seen, British, US and German aircraft mentioned in the book.
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Scored this on the weekend....
Tons of detail, right?
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fubar57
General
Beauty. I wish I had that when I built my Defiant. I may get it anyway........and another Defiant
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Nice!
I received the today and have spent 3 hours reading it and bouncing around the chapters.
This book is probably the best currently available volume chronicling the efforts of the Pacific/CBI Theater air intelligence units.
There is one weakness, several aircraft such as the Nakajima B5N "Kate" do not have pilot reports. Considering this aircraft was considered to be the worlds best torpedo bomber in 1941-'42 this is a rather large oversight.
The Ki-61 and it's Ki-100 cousin, no pilot reports. From a curiosity standpoint the Ki-115 Sabre has mention of several characteristics found by the evaluating pilots.
These are all minor, minor quibbles that can be corrected in future additions.
The book itself is well laid out with a chapter describing the intelligence units themselves, a chapter assessing Japanese weapons and then chapters dividing evaluations by type of aircraft.
The bibliography was surprisingly brief and compromised of mostly older volumes. However, appendix B and the chapter footnotes are where the real treasure trove lies as they are original archival documents.
A nice surprise were the color cockpit illustrations of the Ki-44, Ki-61, and Ki-84. There are not enough illustrations to warrant purchase of the book solely for the cockpit illustrations.
Over all this book is well-illustrated with both interior and exterior photographs and will appeal to modelers and history types alike. Highly recommended without reservation.
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The latest in this wonderful series.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Cool stuff guys. I managed to pick these up cheap a couple of weeks ago, they came today.
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Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
I hate it when that happens.
fubar57
General
LOL.....I will grant you one do-over. Love the D&S books
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
I will keep the do over for more important things. LOL But thanks.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Thanks to the mods for fixing that, I tried a couple of times to fix it but for some reason, and it may be Mozilla Firefox, it would not do what I wanted it to.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Hey George, how do we rate Brig. Gen.?
