Dogfight The Greatest Air Duels of World War II 1st Edition by Tony Holmes ISBN 9780785830283, 0785830286

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ISBN 10: 0785830286

ISBN 13:  9780785830283

Author:  Tony Holmes

Fighter pilots are the elite of the elite; it can take years of training to produce a fighter pilot and even longer to produce a plane that is worthy of their skills. Yet a dogfight can last only minutes. Drawing inspiration from The History Channel’s popular show, “Dogfight” and the new Osprey DUEL series, Dogfight offers readers a chance to discover what it felt like to be a fighter pilot during World War II, flying some of the most iconic planes to have ever graced the skies during operations when man and machine were tested to the limit.
Meticulously researched digital artwork recreates the cockpit of each of these iconic fighter planes and accompanies a step-by-step explanation of the design and development of these warbirds, from prototype to combat. First-hand accounts and interviews with surviving pilots detail pilot training differences among the combatants as well as the equipment used in their preparations for war. Maps and diagrams reveal the wider strategic setting in which each dogfight took place.

Table of contents: 

Part I by Tony Holmes
Channel Clashes: Spitfire II/V vs Bf 109F
The Machines
Type History
The Strategic Situation
The Men
Into Combat
Analysis
Aftermath

Part II by Edward M. Young
Hell in the Pacific: F4F Wildcat vs A6M Zero-sen
The Machines
Type History
The Strategic Situation
The Men
Into Combat
Analysis
Aftermath

Part III by Dmitriy Khazanov and Aleksander Medved
Air War in the East: La-5/7 vs Fw 190
The Machines
Type History
The Strategic Situation
The Men
Into Combat
Analysis
Aftermath

Part IV by Edward M. Young
Ill-Fated Defence of the Home Islands: F4U Corsair vs Ki-84 ‘Frank’
The Machines
Type History
The Strategic Situation
The Men
Into Combat
Analysis
Aftermath

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