P-61 Black Widow Units of World War 2
100 page book.
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and is no longer available.List price: $24.00You pay: $17.29(All prices in U.S. Dollars)Manufacturer: Osprey BooksStock Number: OSP COM8View all products of type "P-61 Black Widow" Author: Warren Thompson
Illustrator: Mark Styling
About this book
The first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfigher, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in 1940/41. Built essentially around the bulky Radiation Laboratory SCR-720 radar, which was mounted in the aircraft's nose, the P-61 proved to be the largest fighter ever produced for frontline service by the USAAF. Twin-engined and twin-boomed, the Black Widow was armed with a dorsal barbette of four 0.50-in Browning machine guns and two ventrally-mounted 20 mm cannon. This volume features all the frontline users of the mighty P-61, and includes many first-hand accounts from pilots and gunners who saw action in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Western Europe.
Contents
- Prelude to Combat
- European Theatre
- Mediterranean Theatre
- Pacific Theatre
- China
- Burma
- India Theatre
- Appendices
Paperback; August 1998; 100 pages; ISBN: 9781855327252