The third part of a monograph on P-47 Thunderbolt discusses its combat use as fighter-bomber in Western Europe starting from D-Day till the end of 1944.
The air battles over Normandy and the actions during the race to the Rhine, the invasion on southern France and Operation`Market-Garden’ together with the Battle of the Bulge are thoroughly described in the separate chapters.
The author uncovers the fates of particular fighter units as well as individual pilots who fought in them.
112 pages, 100 photographs, 20 sheets of technical drawings in 1:24, 1:48 and 1:72 scale with specification of external changes in production-run versions of the aircraft, 11 colour charts with 16 examples of camouflage schemes.
About the Series
Monographs focuses on an individual type of aircraft. Each monograph contains descriptions of the aircraft’s origin, its variants and combat history. Each volume includes several hundred archive photographs, technical scale drawings and colour profile artwork. Each book also has free extras for modellers, with decals and masking foil.
- ISBN10 8360445079
- ISBN13 9788360445075
- Publish Date 5 January 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2014
- Publish Country PL
- Imprint Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza
- Format Paperback
- Pages 92
- Language English