Fighting Firsts: Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts From 1914-1944 (2000) By Jon Guttman
This is a book about beginnings, some more famous than others, and about the men who took new aircraft into combat for the first time. Aircraft reputations were often cruel and slow in the making, and the author looks behind those reputations to discover the truth about the introduction and later development of many familiar names. The book includes cockpit accounts of aerial combat techniques, always changing to match the power and technology available, and features - among many aircraft - such stalwarts as the Sopwith F.I Camel, 1917; the Fiat C.R.32, 1936; the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, 1939-40; the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1942; and the Grumman F6F Hellcat, 1943.
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- 320 pages
- In Good Condition
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