Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces of the Pacific and CBI

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Description

Although far better known for their exploits over the war torn skies of Germany and Italy, the USAAF's premier fighters, the P-47 and P-51, also made significant contributions to the victory against Japan from 1943 onwards.

This book relates the appearance of the Allison-engined A-36As and P-51As over Rangoon from India in November 1943, the 1st Air Commando Group in China, P-47s over the jungles of New Guinea in 1943, escorting B-29s on long-range bombing sorties against the Home Islands in 1944-45 and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Introduction

P-47 Comes to the Pacific
P-51s Over Burma
Fifth Air Force P-47s in 1944-45
P-51's Over the Philippines
P-51s of the Fourteenth Air Force
Central Pacific

Appendices

Product details

Published Feb 20 2013
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 100
ISBN 9781472802439
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 100 b/w; 40 col
Series Aircraft of the Aces
Short code ACE 26
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

John Stanaway

John Stanaway has written two best-selling volumes…

Illustrator

Tom Tullis

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