Skua! the Royal Navy's Dive-bomber by Peter C Smith

Skua! the Royal Navy's Dive-bomber by Peter C Smith

The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy's desire for a carrier-based dive-bomber and RAF's preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II, early operations in Norway found the type woefully inadequate as a fighter. As a dive-bomber, the Royal Navy put the design to good use from the outset of WWII. It was involved with the hunt for the Graf Spee, sunk the major warship Konigsberg, suffered with great loss in an attack on the Scharnhorst, helped to keep the German advance at bay during the Dunkirk evacuation and attacked the French rogue battleship Richelieu in the Mediterranean. This book relates how the final design was created, how the dive-bombing technique was developed and perfected by naval pilots and traces the wartime operational career of the type with many first-hand accounts.

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ISBN 13	9781844154555
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Titre	Skua! the Royal Navy's Dive-bomber
Auteur	Peter C Smith
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Année de publication	2006-06-06
Nombre de pages	208
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