AIR ARSENAL NORTH AMERICA: AIRCRAFT FOR THE ALLIES 1938-1945 PURCHASES AND LEND-LEASE
Written by Phil Butler, Dan Hagedorn
Published by Midland Publishing
in 2004
ISBN: 1857801636
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- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- WORLD WAR II
AIR ARSENAL NORTH AMERICA: AIRCRAFT FOR THE ALLIES 1938-1945 PURCHASES AND LEND-LEASE
Written by Phil Butler, Dan Hagedorn.
Stock no. 1825843
1st.
2004.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
An illustrated survey of American and Canadian aircraft production for the Allies. Large format. Grey cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and a few colour. ISBN: 1857801636. Lower corners of boards bumped else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper lightly creased from bumping to lower corners.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Hudson and Harvards
- 2. The French Connection
- 3. Europe and the British Empire
- 4. War Contracts for Britain and Anglo-French Co-operation
- 5. Due Process - How it all Worked
- 6. Names and Nomenclature
- 7. The Canadian Aircraft Industry
- 8. Canadian Mutal Aid
- 9. Training and Ferrying
- 10. The Russian Protocols
- 11. The Principal Countries
- 12. Minor Countries
- 13. Reverse Lend-Lease
- Aircraft Type Biographies
- British Canadian Aircraft
- American Aircraft
- Air Arsenal in Colour
- Appendices:
- A Crisis of 16th June 1940
- B Aircraft Sunk in Transit
- C 'Sister Firms' in the UK
- D UK (and Commonwealth) Requisitions
- E Flight Testing
- F British Serial Numbers for American & Canadian Aircraft
- G 'Air Arsenal' Statistics
- H Supplies of Aero Engines