B-17 Flying Fortress by Roger A Freeman
From a former pilot and military expert comes a superbly illustrated and technically detailed look at an iconic fighter plane: the B-17 Flying Fortress. Designed in the mid-1930s, the Boeing B-17 became a mainstay of Allied bombing raids against Nazi Germany. Unremitting and crushing attacks by hordes of these planes helped bring the Third Reich to its knees and drove the German high command to consider ever-more-desperate antidotes to aerial intruders. B-17 Flying Fortress gives a complete account of the aircraft from its first appearance--in response to a 1934 Army Air Corps specification--to its retirement. It covers the B-17's design and development history, with its ever-increasing armaments; the units that operated this legendary bomber; how missions were flown; and the aircraft's wartime career. A final chapter details the B-17 variants, including the YB-40, a bomber converted to a 30-gun escort.
Dr Roger Freeman FRCP(C) is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and Senior Neuropsychiatrist at the Neuropsychiatry Clinic, BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, Canada. He is co-founder of the Neuropsychiatry Clinic at BC Children's Hospital and co-founder and manager of the Tourette Syndrome International Database Consortium, a world-wide clinical dataset on Tourette syndrome. Dr Freeman is the author of numerous papers on Tourette syndrome and is a frequent presenter at Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC) conferences. He has been honoured as a Clinician of the year (2006) by the TSFC and was given a distinguished service award by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780711019218 |
| ISBN 10 | 0711019215 |
| Title | B-17 Flying Fortress |
| Author | Roger A Freeman |
| Series | Combat Profiles S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Crecy Publishing |
| Year published | 1990-07-27 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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