WW II AIRCRAFT & WW 2 AIRPLANES

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DAMBUSTERS, Ward, Lee & Wachtel, Red Kite, 2003, new, see photo, definitive history of the 617 Squadron, 1943-1945, covers their entire wartime record, first hand accounts, over 350 photographs, 288 pgs.

DAM BUSTERS, THE, Brickhill, Paul, Evans Brothers Limited, 1954, vg (minor foxing on fly pages)/vg the exploits of 617 squadron, formed specially for the 'Dam Buster' operation against the Moehne & Eder dams, photos, 269 pgs.

DAMBUSTERS RAID, THE, Sweetmn, John, MBI, 1990, f/f, see photo, lancaster aircraft of 617 Squadron left RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on Operation 'Chastise', night attack on the dams of western Germany, photos, maps, 219 pgs.

DANGEROUS SKY, THE, Coughlin, Tom, Ryerson Press, 1968, vg/vg (chipped), see photo, inscribed by author, a Canadian airman, description of Canadian airmen on all fronts, list of aircraft, Canadian aces, photos, 214 pgs.

DARK SKY, DEEP WATER, Franks, Norman, Grub St., 1997, new, first hand reflections on the anti U-boat war in WWII gives insight into how Allied airmen and German submarines fought, index of personnel, photos, 215 pgs.

DAUNTLESS MARINE, White, Alexander, White Knight Press, 1996, f/f, as new, Joseph Sailer Jr, dive-bombing ace of Guaadalcanal, esecuted 26 dive-bombing attacks against Japanese warships before being killed in his SBD aircraft in late 1942, photos, 173 pgs.

DAY FIGHTERS, Held, Werner, Schiffer, 1991, new, collection of photographs of German day fighters and pilots, 223 pgs.

DAY FIGHTERS, HUNTERS OF THE REICH, Williams, David, Cerberus, 2002, new, see photo, biographical account of five German day fighter pilots, details the lives & careers of these men, supplemented by a large number of photographs taken from the pilot's own private collection, 236 pgs.

DAYS OF THE CHING PAO, Rosholt, Malcom, Rosholt House, 1986, as new, see photo, photographic record of the Flying Tigers (14th AF), photos, 189 pgs.

DAY WE BOMBED SWITZERLAND, THE, Granholm, Jackson, Airlife, 2000, new, see photo, March 5, 1945, six B-24s bombed Zurich, photos, 246 pgs.

D-DAY, THE AIR BATTLE, Delve, Ken, Arms & Armour, 1994, fine, soft cover, see photo, a pictorial record of air actions both before, during and after the D-Day landings, order of battle, 144 pgs.

D-DAY, THE AIR BATTLE, Delve, Ken, Crowood, 2004 new, see photo, the allied invasion of occupied France began in the opening minutes of 6 June 1944, by the end of the day a bridgehead had been won and gradually the Allied Forces extended their grip, none of this would have been possible without air power, maps, bomber command operations, over 200 photographs, 192 pgs.

DEADY DUO, THE B-25 AND B-26 IN WORLD WAR II, Mendenhall, Charles, Speciality, 1981, vg/vg (minor moisture damage to back of dj), see photo, detailed overview, development through various service modifications & combat histories, data directory includes technical specifications as well as performance & production information for each model, photos & drawings, 159 pgs.

DEAD RECKONING, Abner, Alan, Burd St. Press, 1997, new, see photo, author flew 50 combat missions over Europe in 1944 and '45 in P-51 Mustangs with the 357th Fighter Group, photos, 134 pgs.

DEAR MOM, SO WE HAVE A WAR, Bong, Carl, Burgess, 1991, new, see photo, compliation of letters, combat reports & statements of people who flew with Dick Bong, a personal look written by his brother, photos, 573 pgs.

DEATH RATTLERS Wolf, William, Schiffer, new w/dj, Marine Squadron VMF-323 over Okinawa, photos, 216 pgs.

DECEMBER 8, 1941, MacARTHUR'S PEARL HARBOR, Bartsch, William, Texas A&M, 2003, new, see photo, Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was been caught with all his planes on the ground when he had been informed in the small hours of that morning of the Pearl Harbor attack & warned of the likelihood of a Japanese strike on his forces, the author draws upon twenty-five years of research into American and Japanese records, interviews with many of the participants, particularly survivors of the actual attack on the Clark & Iba air bases, order of battle, officers, personnel killed, photos, 557 ps.

DECISION OVER SCHWEINFURT , Coffey, Thomas, David McKay, 1977, f/f, mile by mile accounts of the two 1943 Schweinfurt raids, photos, 373 pgs. Book club edition with dj avaiable for $8.50

DEFENDERS OF THE REICH - Jagdgeschwader 1, Vol. One, 1939-1942 Mombeek, Eric, Classic Publications, 2001, new, soft cover, see photo, photos, color plates, 96 pgs.

DEFENDERS OF THE REICH, Jagdeschwader 1, Volume Two, 1943, Mombeek Eric, Classic Pubications, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, 96 pgs.

DEFENDERS OF THE REICH, Jagdeschwader 1, Volume Three, 1944-1945, Mombeek Eric, Classic Pubications, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, 96 pgs.

DEFIANT FILE, THE, Brew, Alec, Air Britain, 1996, new, issued without dj, see photo, development & operations of the Defiant, there is a detailed table of the movements & fate of each individual aircraft, a Roll of Honour of those killed in Defiants, details of the preservation of what remains of the once-numerous turret fighter, photos, 128 pgs.

De HAVILLAND MOSQUITO Howe, Stuart, Crecy, 1999, new, soft cover, revised edition, updated text & over 50 new photographs, 176 pgs.

DEMOCRACY'S AIR ARSENAL, Taylor & Wright, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947, vg/g (worn with some tears), many period photos with commentary, 208 pgs.

DESERT EAGLES, Wynn, Humphrey, Motorbooks, 1993, new, based on diaries of 2 American Kittyhawk pilots, RAF, No. Africa, photos, 140 pgs.

DESERT FLYER, Ford-Jones, Martyn, Schiffer, 1997, new, see photo, log & journal of William Marsh, officer who flew in North Africa, flew in the 274 Hurricane Sqdn, killed in 1944, photos, 335 pgs.

DESTINED FOR GLORY, Wildenberg, Thomas, Naval Institute, 1998, new, how the US Navy developed dive bombing climaxed by the Battles of Coral Sea & Midway, photos, 258 pgs.

DESTINATION TOKYO, Cohen, Stan, Pictorial Histories, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, pictorial history of Doolittle's Tokyo Raid, maps, 136 pgs.

DESTRUCTION AT DAWN, Bishop, Arthur, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1998, fine, see photo, air raid coded "Bodenplatte", Luftwaffe vrs Allies, Jan 1, 1945, over 500 Canadian pilots played a role in defending the attack,

DEVELOPMENT OF THE P-51 LONG RANGE ESCORT FIGHTER MUSTANG, Ludwig, Paul, Classic Publications, 2003, new, see photo, development, history, many photos & color plates, 224 pgs.

DIARY OF AN AIR WAR, Zijlstra, Gerrit, Vantage Press, 1977, vg/vg, see photo, documented chronology of the Allied combat flights over Fortress Europe during World War II, 1942-1945, photos, 487 pgs.

DIVE AND TORPEDO BOMBERS, Mizrahi, J.V., Sentry, 1967, vg (soft cover), minor stain on edge of cover, see photo, pictorial history of the aircraft used by the U.S. Navy for dive and torpedo bombing purposes, illustrations include a full page of section markings, four two-page profiles in colour, numerous illustrations, cutaways, & profiles, 66 pgs

DING HAO, Cornelius & Short, Pelican, 1980, f/f, as new, see photo, covers the American's air war in China from 1937 to 1945, Chennault accepted the offer to form the American Volunteer Group, later known as the Flying Tigers, a documentation of the American presence in China during WW II, photos, 502 pgs.

DIVINE WIND, Inoguchi, Nakajima & Pineau, Naval Institute, 1958, vg/vg, the two Japanese authors served in Kamikazi units, photos, 240 pgs.

DIVINE THUNDER, Millot, Bernard, McCall, f/f, see photo, development of the Kamikazes through the campaigns in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, photos, 243 pgs.

DOMINATOR, STORY OF THE CONSOIDATED B-32 BOMBER, Harding & Long, Pictorial Histories, 1996, fine, soft cover, see photo, origins, XB-32, testing, training, combat, disposal, photos & color plates, 58 pgs.

DONALD'S STORY, Merrill, Sandra, Tebidine, 1997, new, soft cover, signed by author, a tribute to her uncle, Donald Emerson, P-51 pilot, 4th FG, KIA Christmas day, 1944, photos, 225 pgs.

DOOLEBUGS AND ROCKETS, Ogley, Bob, Froglets, 1992, new, soft cover, see photo, history of the pilotless rockets used by Germany near the end of the WW II, ilustrated with photos, maps, drawings, also includes personal accounts, 208 pgs.

DOOLITTLE RAID, THE, Glines, Carroll, Orion, 1988, vg/vg (price clipped), see photo, April 18, 1942, the aircraft carrier Hornet, having been spotted by Japanese fishing boats about 650 miles east of Japan, was forced to prematurely launch Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle and his sixteen B-25 bombers against their targets in the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka & Nagoya, photos, 258 pgs.

DOOLITTLE RAID, THE, Schultz, Duane, St. Martin's Press, 1988, vg/vg, see photo, based on unpublished Air Force & Navy documents & interviews, diaries, leters, war crime trails, this account was written, covers the White House secrecy and the tragic aftermath of the first WW II bombing raid on Japan, photos, 325 pgs.

DOOMED AT THE START,Bartsch, William H., Texas A&M, 1992, new, soft cover, 24th Pursuit Group (P-40s) in the Philippines, 1941-42, photos, 512 pgs.

DORNIER Do 17 Z, JUNKERS Ju 88 A-4, Keskinen & Stenman, Hobby-Kustannus Oy, 1971, vg, soft cover, see photo, Finnish text, Suomen Ilmavoimien Historia 2, 4th fully revised edition, 8 pages in colour, 155 pictures, 7 colour pictures 10 colour profiles & 1 cut-away drawing, 112 pgs.

DORNIER Do 335, Regnat, Karl-Heinz, Schiffer, 2003, new, see photo, developed by Dornier as a heavy fighter in 1943, one of the last high-performance piston-engined aircraft designed, powered by tandem fore-aft engines, a concept proven in numerous Dornier flying boats, drag was reduced to little more than that of a single-engined aircraft, enabling the aircraft to achieve very high speeds, many photos, detailed drawings, charts, 216 pgs.

DORNIER 335 ARROW, Smith, Creek & Hitchcock, Monogram, 1997, new, see photo, fastest propeller-driven warplane of World War II, less than 70 were completed, too late to see operational service, but still represented a significant bridge between propeller-driven & jet powered fighters of the postwar period, photos, line drawings, photos & drawings, 184 pgs.

DOUBLE STRIKE, Jablonski, Edward, Doubleday, 1974, f/f, see photo, record flight over Europe, bombing Regensburg/Schweinfurt and on to North Africa, Gen. Curtis LeMay's 8th Air Force, photos, 271 pgs.

DOUGLAS BADER, Turner, John, Airlife, 2001, new, soft cover, see photo, based on extensive interviews the author had with Bader during the last 13 years of his life, account of hiw war activities, POW, photos, 252 pgs.

DOUGLAS HAVOC AND BOSTON, THE DB-7/A-20 SERIES, Thompson, Scott, Crowood, 2004, new, see photo, Douglas DB-7 was an advanced attack bomber developed in the late 1930s the sleek DB-7 was first built for the French government, after the fall of France,the remaining production RAF, US Army Air Corps placed a production contract in 1939, ordering the plane as the A-20 Havoc, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came, the A-20 was among the most capable aircraft, served with the US Ninth Air Force in Europe & the Fifth Air Force in the South Pacific, specifications, engines used, production list, many photos (including color), 176 pgs.

DRAGONFLY, Myhra, David, Schiffer, 2003, new, soft cover, see photo, first attempt at perfecting a true, tail-sitting vertical take off and landing (VTOL) interceptor flying machine, photos, drawings, 120 pgs.

DUEL FOR THE SKY, Shores, Christopher, Blandford, 1985, f/f, see photo, recreates ten crucial air battles of WW II, with technical & background data, provides a wide variety of air forces and aircraft types, tactics involved & background terrain, photos, illustrations & maps, 205 pgs.

DUEL OF EAGLES, Townsend, Peter, Simon & Schuster, 1970, vg/vg, the rise of German & British airpower, culminating in the Battle of Britain, photos, 480 pgs.

DUNSFOLD, SURREY'S MOST SECRET AIRFIELD, McCue, Paul, AirResearch, 1992, f, soft cover, see photo, aerodrome, about which little is known, contributed to the raids on Dieppe , Arnhem, & to the D-Day landings, photos, 295 pgs.

DUST CLOUDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Shores, Christoher, Grub St. 1996, new, see photo, air war for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran & Madagascar, 1940-42, photos, 308 pgs.

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