Pacific Corsair
| Author | : Robert E. Montgomery |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 133 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Corsair (Fighter plane) |
| ISBN | : 9780986465321 |
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Corsair
| Author | : Barrett Tillman |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2014-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1612515428 |
This is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend--with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as a dive bomber and reconnaissance plane. Filled with facts and figures, this fast-paced history begins with the nerve-wracking test flights of the 1940s and concludes with the F4Us that were active thirty-eight years later. Placed skillfully in between are the stories that gave birth to the legend: the exploits of the aces, including the Medal of Honor recipient who shot down twenty-five enemy planes, and the details of the combat missions of Charles A. Lindbergh. During thirty months of combat in World War II with the U.S. Navy and Marines, the Corsair shot down more than two thousand Japanese planes. In Korea the U-bird, as it was called, was credited with ten aerial victories. A trip down memory lane for anyone who has followed the career of this Cadillac of the props, this new paperback edition of a book first published in hardcover in 1979 offers fine historical aviation reading that presents a riveting picture of the men and machine that helped win two wars.
Corsair Aces
| Author | : Walter A. Musciano |
| Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
The Fighting Corsairs
| Author | : Jeff Dacus |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2020-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1493055097 |
From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the Marines who lived, and died, during the toughest battles of the entire war. It looks at the war through the eyes of some of the greatest fighter pilots of all time, including Bob Hanson, the “Maharajah of Rabaul” and highest-scoring Corsair pilot in history.
Pacific Air
| Author | : David Sears |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 738 |
| Release | : 2011-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1459622863 |
The exhilarating epic story of the heroic fighter pilots whose fast - flying, hard - turning planes turned the tide in the Pacific theater during World War II....
Corsair
| Author | : Walter A. Musciano |
| Publisher | : Schiffer Pub Limited |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780764332326 |
"This book describes the development of the legendary F4U Corsair, and follows it into battle from Guadalcanal to the Indian Ocean, Central Pacific Ocean, Korea, Africa, and Central America, and throughout its lengthy military career into Korea. Also included are chapters on the most decorated Corsair pilots, surviving examples of various models, as well as detailed appendices, and the author's own detailed line schemes and maps. A total of 2,814 F4U-1, F4U-1A, and F4U-2 Corsairs were constructed and delivered. Musciano's book describes how this naval fighter was transformed to perform a myriad of functions for which it was never intended."--P. [2] of cover.
Corsair
| Author | : Clive Cussler |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2010-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0425233294 |
Ex-CIA ship captain Juan Cabrillo leads the crew of the Oregon on a quest to save a kidnapped politician in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates...who look like something else. When the U.S. secretary of state’s plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, and their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished. It turns out Libya’s new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two- hundred- year-old naval battle and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.
Vought F4U Corsair
| Author | : James D’Angina |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 2014-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006273 |
With over 12,500 produced, the Vought F4U Corsair is one of the icons of mid-20th century military aviation. It was as a Marine Corps aircraft that the Corsair was to become famous, fighting through World War II and Korea. Able to outperform its contemporaries, notably the A6M Zero, the Corsair combined speed, resilience and firepower. It also served in Indochina and Algeria, and in 1969's 'Soccer War' between Honduras and El Salvador, Corsairs were flown by both sides and fought the last propeller-aircraft dogfights in history. This highly illustrated volume recounts the design and development history of one of the most iconic fighters in military aviation history.
Corsair Aces of World War 2
| Author | : Mark Styling |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Beretning om det amerikanske jagerfly F4U Corsair og piloter, der fløj det under 2. verdenskrig
Pacific Victory
| Author | : Paul Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2014-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0795335687 |
A look at the events leading up to Japan’s surrender in World War II, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Engineers of Victory. By the spring of 1943, Japan had a tight grip on the countries and territories of East Asia and the Western Pacific. But the Allies had won decisive victories at Midway and Guadalcanal, and they were coming for the rest of Japan’s conquests. Now the empire of Japan would be on the defensive. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this book picks up where Pacific Onslaught left off, providing a detailed, step-by-step account of the Allies’ unstoppable rally across territories annexed by the Japanese in a brutal two-pronged attack across New Guinea and the Philippines, and the islands of the central Pacific. Here you’ll find detailed contemporary accounts and strategy, from the epic battles of the Gilberts and Marshalls to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan’s final surrender on the decks of the USS Missouri.
