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BOMBING COLOURS BRITISH BOMBER CAMOUFLAGE AND MARKINGS 1914-1937

by Bruce Robertson

Published by Patrick Stephens. 1st. 1972

Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. The development of the bomber as a weapon of war during the First World War and as an instrument for keeping the peace in the years that followed. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations throughout.

White pictorial dustwrapper is browned to edges and red title to spine has faded to yellow.

ISBN: 0850590930
Stock no. 1813952

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Author's Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Chapter
  • 1 Bombers before fighters
  • 2 French and American bombers in British service
  • 3 Camouflage introduced
  • 4 The de Havilland day bombers - DH4 and DH9
  • 5 The Handley Page night bombers-0/100, 0/400 and V/1500
  • 6 Emergency and makeshift bombers
  • 7 Experimentation and standardisation
  • 8 Wartime bombers in post-war service - DH10 and Vickers Vimy
  • 9 The RAF's mainstay in the 1920s-DH9A
  • 10 The Vickers bomber transports - Vernon, Victoria and Valentia
  • 11 Post-war single-engined bombers
  • 12 The Virginia night bombers - Mks I to X
  • 13 Handley Page second generation night bombers - Hyderabad and Hinaidi
  • 14 The Boulton & Paul day bombers - Sidestrand and Overstrand
  • 15 Fairey day bombers - Fox, IIIF and Gordon
  • 16 Mainstay light bomber of the 1930s - Hawker Hart
  • 17 Interim bomber - Hawker Hind
  • 18 Last of the biplane bombers - Handley Page Heyford
  • 19 First of the monoplane bombers - Fairey Hendon
  • 20 Towards a new era in markings
  • Appendices

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