Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN num: 9781855326279
ISBN number: 1855326272
Label: Osprey Publishing
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 100
Printing Date: November 15, 1996
Publishing house: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: November 15, 1996
Sale Popularity Level: 835025
Studio: Osprey Publishing
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Spitfire Mk Is and IIs served only briefly in the frontline with the RAF, but their pilots were responsible for achieving impressive scores against the Luftwaffe during 1940/41. This volume details the RAF's very first aces of World War 2 who helped stem the German tide during Britain's struggle for survival in the bitter years between 1939 and 1941. Early-mark Spitfires were notorious for their light armament, overheating engines and short range, but during the dogfights over Dunkirk and south-east England, then the very first tentative sweeps across France, many pilots achieved scores of note.
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The Hurricane Aces 39/40 book was superior to the Spitfire Mark I/II Aces. The Hurricane Aces book has more pages and there was more emphasis on the aces particulary about how many aces were kiled and/or wounded. There was too much technical data on the Spitfire and one chapter was totally to two of the Spitfire aces. Should have been more information about how many Spitfire Aces there were and how many were killed or wounded during 1939/41 period.
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Most of the Ospery titles have been very good. But this one was lacking something. It needed to cover more of the pilots who flew the planes rather than the plane. There were some BOB aces that weren't mention who did quite well.
The Ospery series is one of the best available, and well worth looking up. This book though doesn't cover the aces well enough.
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Alfred Price is the doyen of Spitfire authors, having published at least a dozen books on the aircraft, so it was probably hard for him to come up with new angles to cover. In this book he succeeds admirably, covering the combat use of the very first two versions of the Spitfire, and giving brief bios of several important aces who flew the aircraft. Price covers both the build-up to the Battle of Britain, and the Spitfire's important part in that epic struggle. Best of all is the visual material. Among the many photos of pilots and aircraft are several I haven't seen before. There are forty well executed colour side profiles of aces' Spitfires; although the Dark Green and Dark Earth colour schemes of most of the aircraft can get a bit boring, they are an invaluable aid, particularly to modelers. A fine job.
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I found that Mr. Price spent more time on tactics and the aircraft itself than the pilots that flew it to 5 victories. I must admit I'm a bit bias having read Mr. Weal's BF109D/E aces book beforehand and was therefore hoping Mr. Price's book would follow the same writing style. I was disappointed. There had to be more than the 10 pilots Mr. Price focused on that achieved 5 victories in this marque of Spitfire.
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