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Air Arsenal North America: Purchases & Lend-lease, Aircraft for the Allies 1938-1945

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This is the most complete history I've ever seen of the supply of aircraft to the allies. It began with purchases in 1938 of planes that were largely training planes, transports (some of which were made into patrol planes and bombers). By the end of the war, literally thousands of aircraft were delivered of virtually type to the big countries like England and Russia and a dozen or more others including Cuba, Ethiopia, and Norway among others.

This book discusses each receiving country and each type of plane being delivered. Because of the large expanse of time some rather uncommon aircraft such as early greenhouse cockpit P-51's with Allison engines, a P-80 Shooting Star as delivered to England and Italy, a P-61, even some early helicopters and experimental gliders.

This book makes very interesting reading.