The third volume in the trilogy of Combat Aircraft titles devoted to de Havilland's 'wooden wonder', this book focuses on the Mosquito photo-recce variants, and their users. The design's superb performance, and ability to escape interception by enemy fighters made the Mosquito the ideal choice for the RAF's then embryonic photographic reconnaissance force. The production standard PR1 subsequently became the first Mosquito variant of any kind to see operational service with the RAF, flying its first sortie [over France] on 20 September 1941. These aircraft flew all manner of bomber support missions ranging from simple post-raid photo-recce to weather checking and experimental H2X radar photo-mapping. All are detailed in this volume.
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Osprey's Combat series combines the best archival photography available with specially commissioned artworks and first hand accounts, making these books favourites amongst historians, modellers and aviation enthusiasts everywhere.
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Norwich-based Martin Bowman has written several volumes on the Mosquito, plus countless works on the USAAF.
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Aviation researchers are forwarned to check official USAAF documents and records to verify information before quoting anything from the chapter describing the USAAF Mosquito operations.
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'The military organisation with the most efficient photographic reconnaissance will win the next war', said Gen von Fritsch, later Chief of the German General Staff, in 1938. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sortie flown, oblique camera, flash bombs, first sortie, drop tanks, starboard engine, port engine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flt Sgt, Sqn Ldr, Flg Off, Command Assignments, China Bay, George Sesler, Ray Smith, San Severo, Bill White, Dum Dum, Bomber Command, Cocos Islands, Philip Jarrett, Bay of Bengal, Coomalee Creek, Ken Godfrey, Baylis Collection, Blue Stocking, Cox's Bazaar, Photographic Wing, Sqn Motto, Kevan Collection, Northern Territory, Singapore Island, Stevens Collection New!
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'The military organisation with the most efficient photographic reconnaissance will win the next war', said Gen von Fritsch, later Chief of the German General Staff, in 1938. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sortie flown, oblique camera, flash bombs, first sortie, drop tanks, starboard engine, port engine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flt Sgt, Sqn Ldr, Flg Off, Command Assignments, China Bay, George Sesler, Ray Smith, San Severo, Bill White, Dum Dum, Bomber Command, Cocos Islands, Philip Jarrett, Bay of Bengal, Coomalee Creek, Ken Godfrey, Baylis Collection, Blue Stocking, Cox's Bazaar, Photographic Wing, Sqn Motto, Kevan Collection, Northern Territory, Singapore Island, Stevens Collection New!
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- The Middle East (Sociology of Development Societies) by Talal Asad in Back Matter
- Mosquito Log a by Mckee Alexander in Back Matter
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