Carl Molesworth: Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War
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- Illustration:
- Mark Postlethwaite
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury USA, 09/2006
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781846030420
- Item number:
- 2440270
- Volume:
- 128 Pages
- Weight:
- 413 g
- Format:
- 248 x 183 mm
- Thickness:
- 9 mm
- Release date:
- 26.9.2006
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
These pilots called themselves the 'Tokyo Club'. It was a simple task to become a member.
All you had to do was strap yourself into a heavily loaded P-51 Mustang, take off from Iwo Jima, fly 650 miles north over the sea - often through monsoon storms - in your single-engined aircraft to Japan, attack a heavily defended target and then turn around and fly home despite a shrinking fuel supply and perhaps battle damage as well. Do it once and you earned membership in the club. Do it 15 times and you earned a trip home. But make one mistake or have one touch of bad luck, and you had a very good chance of ending up dead.
Featuring photographs throughout and detailed aircraft profiles, this book tells the little-known story of these brave men and their efforts to defeat the aerial forces defending Japan.
