DIVE BOMBER! AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

Author: Peter C Smith

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Year published: 1982

Pagination: 221pp, numerous b/w photos & illustrations, index

Condition: vg in dw

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The most comprehensive history of dive bombing from 1911 onward, extensively researched with numerous photographs. Written from official accounts the full history of the dive-bomber is revealed. From the earliest efforts by American pilots in the Mexican war in 1914, through the first true dive-bombing mission by the RAF on the Western Front in 1917, the rise of dive bombing in Germany and Japan, the adoption of the dive bomber by the US and Japanese Navies and the battles of WWII are all covered in detail