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Aviation Elite Units Ser.: Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War
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- Unit Type
- Unit
- ISBN
- 9781846030420
- Book Title
- Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War
- Item Length
- 9.9in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Military / Aviation
- Item Width
- 7.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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The pilots called themselves the 'Tokyo Club'. It was a simple task to become a member. All you had to do was strap yourself into a heavily loaded P-51 Mustang, take off from Iwo Jima (a postage-stamp sized volcanic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), fly 650 miles north over the sea - often through monsoon storms - in your single-engined aircraft to Japan, attack a heavily defended target in the vicinity of the enemy's capital city and then turn around and fly home while fretting over your shrinking fuel supply and perhaps battle damage as well. If your gas held out and you were not blown off-course on your return trip, you landed back at 'Iwo' after an eight-hour flight. Do it once and you earned membership in the club. Do it 15 times and you earned a trip home. But make one mistake or have one touch of bad luck, and you had a very good chance of ending up dead. This book will tell the little-known story of these brave men and their efforts to defeat the aerial forces defending Japan during the final five months of World War 2. Used initially to provide fighter escort for B-29s bombing Tokyo and other Japanese cities, the Iwo Jima-based P-51s enjoyed such success that they were soon called on to make low-level attacks against ground targets in preparation for the invasion of Japan. The book will cover the three Mustang-equipped Very Long Range fighter groups of the USAAF's Seventh Fighter Command - the 15th, 21st and 506th FGs - based on Iwo Jima with an action-packed text, many rare photos drawn from private collections and appendices providing statistical information. These units flew some of the most colourful P-51s ever seen in USAAF, and theauthor has extensive photographic references available to allow Jim Laurier to produce profile illustrations of 30 P-51D/Ks in their finery.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1846030420
ISBN-13
9781846030420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52181147
Product Key Features
Book Title
Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2006
Genre
History
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
21
Lc Classification Number
D767.2
Reviews
"Over in England, Osprey just keeps cranking out high-quality aviation books under the editorship of Tony Holmes... [This book is] in Osprey's Aviation Elite series and features the usual blend of concise text, good quality black and white photos, and numerous color profiles... The sage of the Very Long Range P-51s has been overlooked by historians... Most of the photographs have not been publishing and there are numerous good stories in the volume... recommended." -Jim Larsen, Mustangs International "Provides a riveting combat history joining others in the 'Aviation Elite Units' series." - Library Bookwatch "I highly recommend this title." -Fred Rick Boucher, AeroScale (September 2006), "Over in England, Osprey just keeps cranking out high-quality aviation books under the editorship of Tony Holmes... [This book is] in Osprey's Aviation Elite series and features the usual blend of concise text, good quality black and white photos, and numerous color profiles... The sage of the Very Long Range P-51s has been overlooked by historians... Most of the photographs have not been publishing and there are numerous good stories in the volume... recommended." -Jim Larsen,Mustangs International "Provides a riveting combat history joining others in the 'Aviation Elite Units' series." -Library Bookwatch "I highly recommend this title." -Fred Rick Boucher,AeroScale(September 2006), "Provides a riveting combat history joining others in the 'Aviation Elite Units' series." -- Library Bookwatch "Over in England, Osprey just keeps cranking out high-quality aviation books under the editorship of Tony Holmes... [This book is] in Osprey's Aviation Elite series and features the usual blend of concise text, good quality black and white photos, and numerous color profiles... The sage of the Very Long Range P-51s has been overlooked by historians... Most of the photographs have not been publishing and there are numerous good stories in the volume... recommended." -- Jim Larsen, Mustangs International "I highly recommend this title." -- Fred Rick Boucher, AeroScale (September 2006)
Illustrated by
Laurier, Jim
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
940.544973
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Aviation Elite Units Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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