Dominator, the Story of the Consolidated B-32 Bomber
Title | Dominator, the Story of the Consolidated B-32 Bomber PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Harding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
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Consolidated B-32 Dominator
Title | Consolidated B-32 Dominator PDF eBook |
Author | William Wolf |
Publisher | Schiffer Military History |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Over the years the B-32 has been described only in a small number of magazine articles and in a booklet that have generally given a superficial and incomplete account, maligning the bomber, fairly or not, as a mediocre design besieged with developmental problems and a lackluster combat record. Consolidated B-32 Dominator - The Ultimate Look: from Drawing Board to Scrapyard is the definitive description and appraisal of this neglected bomber's development, testing, manufacture, and combat experience. The author used company design and production information, flight and test evaluations, along with previously unexplored Flight Manuals and Consolidated-Vultee Erection and Maintenance Manuals. From rare microfilm of original material and insights and personal narratives of the personnel involved, Wolf has gathered information on the pre-combat testing and all the combat missions of the bomber in the Pacific.
Echoes of the Dominator
Title | Echoes of the Dominator PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin A. Sinko |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2007-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0615158986 |
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was the companion Very Heavy Bomber to the famed Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Used extensively for a revolutionary crew training program in the United States during 1945 just nine reached the Pacific before VJ day. The Dominator made its mark on history in the skies over Tokyo. Just days after the official cease fire was agreed on it battled Japanese fighters over a two day period marking the last official aerial combat of World War II. With the completion of the war every B-32 was scrapped and it slipped from history. Echoes of the Dominator brings to life the stories of the B-32 Dominator as never told before through the eyes of the men who flew it into the pages of history. Follow the men through training and into combat where their lives were forever changed by events that occurred when the war was supposed to be over.
Last to Die
Title | Last to Die PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Harding |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-07-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0306823381 |
The remarkable untold story of how a young American airman became the last to die in World War II
Douglas B-18 Bolo
Title | Douglas B-18 Bolo PDF eBook |
Author | William Wolf |
Publisher | Schiffer Pub Limited |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2006-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780764325816 |
William Wolf brings his meticulous research to describe the little known Douglas B-18 Bolo which was America's most numerous front line bomber at the time of Pearl Harbor. Over the years the story of the airliner turned bomber has languished in obscurity and the few articles on the subject in popular aviation magazines have emphasized its faults and maligned it as a budget bomber that had few virtues. Wolf's comprehensive book is the first ever on the subject and gives the reader the definitive description and appraisal of this neglected bomber's development, testing, manufacture, the aircraft per se, and combat experience.
Development of the B-52
Title | Development of the B-52 PDF eBook |
Author | Lori S. Hawthorne-Tagg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN |
North American B-25 Mitchell
Title | North American B-25 Mitchell PDF eBook |
Author | William Wolf |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Mitchell (Bomber) |
ISBN | 9780764329302 |
William Wolf presents a comprehensive, meticulously researched volume describing the celebrated World War II B-25 Mitchell. The reader is given an inclusive description and appraisal of the bomber's development, testing, manufacture; and then every aspect of the aircraft, its equipment, and crew is described and illustrated in comprehensive detail. Since the Mitchell was renowned for its combat versatility its armament and ordnance are described and depicted at length. This book is truly the "Ultimate Look" at the B-25 and a must for the World War II aviation enthusiast, historian, and modeler.