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ALLIED AIR POWER IN WESTERN EUROPE - 1944-1945 ALLIED AIR POWER IN WESTERN EUROPE - 1944-1945 2
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Allied Air Power in Western Europe, 1944–1945: 9th US Air Force and 2nd TAF After taking part in operations in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, the 9th US Air Force was sent to Great Britain at the end of 1943 to become the principal tactical air force of the United States, in preparation for the landings on the Continent. After preparing the assault...
THE CONQUEST OF THE SKY - World War II in Colour
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Relive the key moments of the aerial battles of the Second World War through colourised black-and-white photographs. In The Conquest of the Sky, Francis Dréer delivers a presentation and analysis of the air forces during the Second World War, through an exceptional iconography — all photographs having been colourised especially for the work by the...
Camouflages & Markings of the Luftwaffe 1933–1945
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In Reprint – Delivery late November 2023 Absolutely everything is scrutinised by the author, who drew on thousands of archival documents gathered over decades of research to offer this study without equal to date. Enriched with hundreds of photographs and dozens of colour profiles, as well as contemporary sketches, this work proves indispensable to every...
ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES - Large Format ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES - Large Format 2
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February 1954… In Korea, after four years of a bloody conflict, a fragile armistice has been signed! The war is put on pause for thousands of GIs, even as the situation is more tense than ever and a nuclear conflict looms. Yet there is a buzz on the American bases… For, on her honeymoon in Japan with her new husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn...
ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES 2
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ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES

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February 1954… In Korea, after four years of a bloody conflict, a fragile armistice has been signed! The war is put on pause for thousands of GIs, even as the situation is more tense than ever and a nuclear conflict looms. Yet there is a buzz on the American bases… For, on her honeymoon in Japan with her new husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn...
RUM THE PACIFIC ACE - SQUADRON 303 RUM THE PACIFIC ACE - SQUADRON 303 2
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RUM THE PACIFIC ACE - SQUADRON 303

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Squadron 303 The Pacific Ace Rum - The Aviator Style Rum "During the Second World War, Marine Corps commander Greg 'Pappy' Boyington led a fighter pilot squadron. It was made up of misfits and adventurers who became the Aces of the South Pacific. They were called… the Black Sheep." Inspired by the history of squadron VMF-214 immortalized by the famous TV...
THE BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ - 1939/1944
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The Tirpitz was, without a doubt, one of the most formidable warships of her generation. Of redoubtable and uncontested power, the Bismarck's sistership spent the majority of her career in the Norwegian fjords. After brief and inconclusive sorties against Allied convoys, a remarkable human adventure would unfold in the effort to neutralize Hitler's last...
THE LUFTWAFFE IN BELGIUM. VOLUME II - Escalating Combat...
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In 1941–1942, setting aside Bomber Command's night operations, the air war ultimately had little impact on Belgium. 1943, the pivotal year of the Second World War, was nonetheless marked for that country by the growing incursions of the US 8th Air Force's heavy bombers, which until then had made little showing in Belgian airspace. From 6 April 1943, the...
THE LORRAINE GROUP - From the Libyan Desert to the... THE LORRAINE GROUP - From the Libyan Desert to the... 2
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In September 1941, the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres assigned the names of occupied French provinces to their combat units. Bomber Group No. 1, just formed from the Reserve Bomber Group No. 1 (a veteran of Kufra and Abyssinia), thus took the name "Lorraine". Equipped with Bristol Blenheim aircraft, it took part in Operation Crusader in Libya against...
THE STUKAS ATTACK - Battle of Britain
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The Junkers Ju 87 in the Battle of Britain The Stuka is the best-known German aircraft of the Second World War, having left an enduring impression with its angular silhouette and its near-vertical dives. This book, which focuses on Stuka operations during the Battle of Britain, corrects a widely repeated misconception: no, the Stuka did not suffer such...
JAPAN 1944–1945 The Strategic Bombing Campaign by General...
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A strategic bombing campaign ravaged Japan as it continued to fight tenaciously despite the inexorable American advance. In 1944, the US Army Air Force deployed an ultramodern bomber on the Pacific theater — the most costly weapons system of the war: the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. General Curtis LeMay initiated radical and devastating tactics that ruined...
HELICOPTER MIL MI-24 HIND: THE FLYING TANK
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Entering service in 1969, the Mi-24 (NATO reporting name "Hind") belongs to the very exclusive club of attack helicopters that have passed into legend. Designed to be the airborne equivalent of an infantry fighting vehicle, the Mil Mi-24 carries unmatched armament: a 4-barrel 12.7 mm Gatling cannon, four 57 mm rocket pods, and four AT-6 or AT-2 anti-tank...
THE CASABLANCA MAIL - COMPLETE EDITION THE CASABLANCA MAIL - COMPLETE EDITION 2
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1918, the armistice. Ernest de Galardon, a businessman, sets up an airmail company to connect France to the African continent. He hires several former pilots from the Great War, aces. French, Belgian, and even German! Alas, one of them, the best, Adrien Delamare, sinks into alcohol to forget the horrors of the conflict. A bottle in the air — is it not...
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS - 40 Years of Aeronautical Drawings -...
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Romain Hugault has been drawing aeroplanes since the age of three, sitting cross-legged on the tarmac of an air base. As a child, he swore only by Buck Danny and Saint-Exupéry while others were discovering Scrooge McDuck. He became a private pilot at 17 when most of his friends were still taking driving lessons. While aeronautical comics may seem like an...
SUKHOI FROM THE SU-27 TO THE SU-57
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A look back at one of the most iconic fighter aircraft of the past forty years: the Sukhoi Su-27 and its derivatives, direct descendants of the Su-30, Su-34, and Su-35. Through action shots and in-flight views from spectacular angles, this book reveals all the secrets of this legendary Soviet manufacturer. The author brings his expertise to the subject,...
The Luftwaffe in Belgium, Volume 1: Conquest and...
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From September 1939 and throughout the "Phoney War," the airspace of neutral Belgium was criss-crossed by the aircraft of the belligerents, who exploited the weakness of the Belgian Aéronautique Militaire. German reconnaissance aircraft were thus able to survey the future invasion routes. On 10 May 1940, the Wehrmacht entered the country and, until the...
COMBAT AIRCRAFT - A Comprehensive Presentation of Today's...
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A showcase of state power, the combat aircraft is one of the most formidable tools in the modern military arsenal. An ultra-high-performance weapons system, it presents itself as a flexible, reactive, and autonomous platform capable of sustaining a high operational tempo within joint and combined operations. It is also a remarkable force multiplier by...
THE TENTH AIR FORCE in World War II: Strategy, Command,... THE TENTH AIR FORCE in World War II: Strategy, Command,... 2
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During World War II, flying B-24 Liberator bombers on missions deep into Burma, B-25 Mitchell bombers attacking Japanese lines of communications, and P-40 Warhawks, P-47 Thunderbolts, and P-51 Mustangs flying close support for General Joseph Stilwells Chinese and American forces in northern Burma, the Tenth Air Force worked closely with the squadrons of...
EYES ON THE FLIGHT DECK
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EYES ON THE FLIGHT DECK

L20220399
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6 June 1987: a young sailor, freshly qualified as a missile and gunnery specialist, boards the aircraft carrier Clémenceau on a port call at Brest. 10 June 2021: still a sailor at heart, the author finds himself aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle as a photographer and embarks for a few days in the Mediterranean. Tirelessly faithful to his...
SPECIAL MISSIONS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR SPECIAL MISSIONS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 2
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Special missions during the First World War: French secret agents dropped by aircraft behind German lines. Behind the designation "special" lay missions organised by the intelligence services and the French Aeronautical Service during the Great War. While their primary purpose was to gather intelligence on the enemy (and sometimes to sabotage railway...
MITSUBISHI A6M REI-SEN ZERO: When the Wind Rises
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When on 26 November 1941 the six aircraft carriers of the Kidō Butai secretly left the anchorage of Hito-Kappu in the Kuril Islands and set course for Pearl Harbor, they embarked approximately 380 aircraft: dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighters. All of them, in their respective categories, represented the best available in single-engine combat...
JETS 46: COMBAT JET PROJECTS OF THE III. REICH
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Following numerous requests from our readers, we decided to republish, in book form, the Aérojournal special issue number 3 — a publication that fell victim to its own success and has been out of print for several years — devoted to German combat jet projects that would have seen the light of day had the war continued for another year. This is not,...
NEW HISTORY of the French Air and Space Force NEW HISTORY of the French Air and Space Force 2
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The prestigious history of the French Air and Space Force in 480 pages and 750 rare or previously unpublished photographs The Centre d'Etudes Stratégiques Aérospatiales (CESA) co-publishes with Éditions Pierre de Taillac a Nouvelle Histoire de l'Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace. It succeeds l'Histoire de l'aviation militaire française published in 1980 by...
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