Books : Airacobra Advantage: The Flying Cannon : The Complete Story of Bell Aircraft Corporation's P-39 Pursuit Fighter Plane
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 358.4383
EAN num: 9780929521626
ISBN number: 0929521625
Label: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 118
Printing Date: 1992-03
Publishing house: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Sale Popularity Level: 2067617
Studio: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
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One of the unsung workhorses of the second world war was Bell's P-39 Airacobra, and the disasterous experiences of this aircraft in British service could be the main reason for this, for very few of this aircraft served in the prestigious European Theatre of Operations (ETO) and most were relegated to the Far-East and the Russian Eastfront instead. The fact that the plane acquited itself very well there remained relatively unknown to most people, and Mr. Mitchell was one of the very first to put things right in his book.
It is a good book about the Airacobra, with history of the plane and it's Nephew/successor, the Bell P-63 Kingcobra, a nice comparison section to put things in perspective about the various fighter planes, personal accounts, a part about surviving planes and a thorough bibliography.
The only thing missing for me was a colour art section, showing about the plane's camouflage and markings, but there are special books for that. The fact that the copy I bought was the second printing of March 1995 -the very first being of March 1992- prooves that there is a steady market for books of this quality.
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