DIVE BOMBER AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY PETER C. SMITH MOORLAND PUBLISHING 1982 DIVE BOMBER! To the war veterans of different nations the picture these words conjures up varies. To an American it is the fondly-remembered shape of the Douglas Dauntless. During the hard years of 1941-3 the Dauntless sank more enemy shipping than all other forms of attack combined. Toa younger generation of American fighting men it would probably mean the Douglas Skyraider, whose angular shape in the skies over Korea and Vietnam during the 1950s, '60s and early '70s brought longed-for support and help to hardpressed GIs battling against the high-tide of Communist aggression. Ask an ex-Fleet Air Arm man and they might recall the Blackburn Skua, that often falsely-derided aircraft expected to act as a fighter, but superbly equipped for its true, if seldom-used, role as a dive bomber. The first major warship to be sunk in war was destroyed by the Skuas. Or they might remember the Barracuda, part dive bomber, part torpedo-bomber, which never the less scored a record number of direct hits on the mighty Tirpitz in 1944. A Japanese veteran would recall the Aichi 'Val'. Obsolete veteran that spearheaded the attack on Pearl Harbor, drove the Allies pell-mell from the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and littered the seabed with the wrecks of British and American warships. A Frenchman might remember the suicidal missions of the Loire-Nieuports or the Vindicators which flew to death and immortality in the dark days of 1940. Or he might recall French Dauntless dive bombers throwing the German invader from France in 1944-5, or pounding the Viet-Minh in Indo-China. The German dive bomber, the Junkers Ju87, with which the word 'Stuka' became synonymous, conquered an entire Continent in weeks. And in the Soviet Union the words conjure up the picture of one of the most successful of all aircraft of that type, the PE-2, which combined the accuracy of dive bombing with the speed of a fighter. Now, in one comprehensive and far-reaching volume, all these, and many of the rarer types, are given their first full-length and detailed showcase. A hitherto little-researched subject, the evocative and original text is enhanced by a large number of photographs, many from private collections and extremely rare,a range of detailed diagrams and many useful tables. The result is an authoritative and fascinating piece of military aviation history. 24 x 16 cm. 223 pp.

DIVE BOMBER
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

PETER C. SMITH

MOORLAND PUBLISHING
1982

DIVE BOMBER! To the war veterans of different nations the picture these words conjures up varies. To an American it is the fondly-remembered shape of the Douglas Dauntless. During the hard years of 1941-3 the Dauntless sank more enemy shipping than all other forms of attack combined. To a younger generation of American fighting men it would probably mean the Douglas Skyraider, whose angular shape in the skies over Korea and Vietnam during the 1950s, '60s and early '70s brought longed-for support and help to hardpressed GIs battling against the high-tide of Communist aggression. Ask an ex-Fleet Air Arm man and they might recall the Blackburn Skua, that often falsely-derided aircraft expected to act as a fighter, but superbly equipped for its true, if seldom-used, role as a dive bomber. The first major warship to be sunk in war was destroyed by the Skuas. Or they might remember the Barracuda, part dive bomber, part torpedo-bomber, which never the less scored a record number of direct hits on the mighty Tirpitz in 1944.

A Japanese veteran would recall the Aichi 'Val'. Obsolete veteran that spearheaded the attack on Pearl Harbor, drove the Allies pell-mell from the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and littered the seabed with the wrecks of British and American warships. A Frenchman might remember the suicidal missions of the Loire-Nieuports or the Vindicators which flew to death and immortality in the dark days of 1940. Or he might recall French Dauntless dive bombers throwing the German invader from France in 1944-5, or pounding the Viet-Minh in Indo-China. The German dive bomber, the Junkers Ju87, with which the word 'Stuka' became synonymous, conquered an entire Continent in weeks. And in the Soviet Union the words conjure up the picture of one of the most successful of all aircraft of that type, the PE-2, which combined the accuracy of dive bombing with the speed of a fighter. Now, in one comprehensive and far-reaching volume, all these, and many of the rarer types, are given their first full-length and detailed showcase. A hitherto little-researched subject, the evocative and original text is enhanced by a large number of photographs, many from private collections and extremely rare,a range of detailed diagrams and many useful tables. The result is an authoritative and fascinating piece of military aviation history.

24 x 16 cm. 223 pp.

Very good condition, price clipped dust jacket faded on the spine and with some light rubbing and scratches, book itself clean and tidy.




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