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White, David Fairbank, 1951- author.
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United States. Army Air Forces -- History.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Mustang (Fighter plane) -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe.
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Wings of war : the W...
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Wings of war : the World War II fighter plane that saved the Allies and the believers who made it fly / David Fairbank White and Margaret Stanback White.
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White, David Fairbank, 1951- author.
[New York] : Caliber, [2022]
Subjects
United States. Army Air Forces -- History.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Mustang (Fighter plane) -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe.
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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9781524746322 (hardcover) :
1524746320 (hardcover)
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x, 325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue: The Landmarks of a Nightmare -- PART ONE: THE PLANE IN THE DREAM -- Hypnotized -- Flugzeug Konstrukteur -- 100 Days -- Death from Above -- A Turbine like a Typhoon -- The Butcher Bird -- High Noon -- PART TWO: BIRD IN A CAGE -- The Best Sport in the World -- A One- Man Crusade -- A Cross- Country Shuttle -- Cash and Corruption -- Huddle in the Orange Groves -- Picked Off like Geese -- Black Thursday -- PART THREE: HAWK OF HEAVEN -- A Maverick Fighter Ace -- The Jig Was Up -- Death of a Jockey -- An Endless Roar Overhead -- Big Brother, Little Friend -- Oil Run -- A Perfect Show -- Closing the Ring -- Buzz Bombs and Doodlebugs -- Fighter Boys -- A Last Throw of the Dice -- Twilight for the Reich -- Epilogue: The Bells Toll.
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When the P-51 Mustang began tearing across European skies in early 1944, the Allies had been losing the air war for years. Staggering numbers of bomber crews, both British and American, had been shot down and killed thanks to the Luftwaffe's superior fighter force. Any landing of troops in France was impossible while German fighters hunted overhead. What was needed was an airplane that could outrun and outmaneuver Germany's best. Discover the true story of the P-51 Mustang fighter and the unlikely crew of designers, engineers, test pilots, and army officers who brought it from the drafting table to the skies over World War II. They were stymied by corruption within the defense industry and stonewalled by the Army Air Forces-- but when squadrons of Mustangs were finally unleashed over Hitler's empire, the Luftwaffe was decimated within months, clearing the skies for D-Day. -- adapted from jacket
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