Dive Bombers in Action

A comprehensive and detailed look at the dive bomber in World War II in all its many applications with new information and photos on German, British, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian (including the very first detailed accounts, in English, of female dive bomber pilots in action) and American pilots and aircraft. Recounts not just the success but the failures also and how the type developed world-wide.

Among the many new revelations are the evolution of the dive bomber; the between the wars developments; the theory and practice of dive bombing; and the many wartime actions world-wide, and among the many rare types are the lamented Hawker Henley, killed off by RAF prejudice; the Swedish twin-engined SAAB L-10; Italy's ludicrous "Flying Banana" the Savoia-Marchetti Sm95; the Bulgarian DAF-10F; the French Navy's Loire-Nieuport types and their brief part in the Battle of France in 1940; Bombs, sights, instruments and policy are covered, with numerous diagrams and illustrations to back up the comprehensive photographic coverage, much of it seen for the first time in this volume. How Palembang might have been a mis-use of dive bombers, how a Japanese Judy crippled the USS Franklin and how the RAAF used the Commonwealth Wirraway as a make-shift dive bomber are among the host of facts to emerge from this book.

Author: Peter C. Smith

Publisher: Blandford (1988)

Description: 160 pages, Hardback, 280 X 220 mm, b/w photos, diagrams.  

Book condition: VERY GOOD+

Dust jacket condition: VERY GOOD

Shipping weight: 950 gr.

Tags: DIVE BOMBERS