Combat aircraft of the United States Air Force : rare photographs from wartime archives / Michael Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Michael, author.

Series:

Images of war.

Images of war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Air Force--Pictorial works.

United States.

Airplanes, Military--United States--History--Pictorial works.

Airplanes, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2016.

Summary:

When the United States Army Signal Corps created the Aeronautical Division in August1907, it had a mission to take charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred matters. That small inconsequential portion of the USArmy would grow progressively over the many decades to become a separate service named the USAir Force in 1947 following the Second World War. Overnight, it became the worlds most powerfulmilitary establishment, able to deliver conventional and nuclear ordnance anywhere around theglobe.Todays cutting-edge example of this power-projection is the supersonic, bat-winged B-2 Spiritstealth bomber, which can fly at an altitude of 50, 000 feet, and is built of carbon-graphite compositematerials. The B-2 Spirit is a far cry from the early days of the service when it relied on fragile prop-drivenwood and fabric aerial platforms, such as the Wright Type B, which could barely reach analtitude of 100 feet.In between have been such iconic Second World War aircraft as the P-51 Mustang and P-47Thunderbolt fighters and bombers such as the B-25 Mitchell, B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 SuperFortress which dropped the first A-Bomb in 1945. The Cold War demanded ever more powerfulaircraft, such as the B-58 Hustler and B-52 Stratofortress, and fighters including the F-86 Sabre, F-104Starfighter and F-4 Phantom. All these aircraft and more are vividly illustrated and described in detailin this superb Images of War publication.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes to the Reader; Chapter One: The Beginning (1903-1918); Chapter Two: Interwar Aircraft (1919-1938); Chapter Three: Second World War (1939-1945); Chapter Four: Early Cold War (1946-1961); Chapter Five: Late Cold War (1962-1991); Chapter Six: Post-Cold War (1992-2015)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2016).

ISBN:

9781473880139

1473880130