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Fighting Seventeen
Lee Cook
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Description for Fighting Seventeen
Num Pages: 284 pages, over 300 color/bw images. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1748. A Photographic History of VF-17 in World War II. illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 281 x 216 x 32. Weight: 1750.
This is the true story in photographs, of the famous U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron Seventeen. Flying the new Chance Vought F4U Corsair they broke combat records in the Pacific and were instrumental in proving this powerful new fighter to the Navy in World War II. Amongst Fighting 17’s heroic exploits were shooting down 152 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat in only seventy-six days. Tom Blackburn led the squadron to a Navy Unit Commendation and made the “Skull and Crossbones Squadron” one of the most successful squadron’s in the annals of air warfare.
This is the true story in photographs, of the famous U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron Seventeen. Flying the new Chance Vought F4U Corsair they broke combat records in the Pacific and were instrumental in proving this powerful new fighter to the Navy in World War II. Amongst Fighting 17’s heroic exploits were shooting down 152 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat in only seventy-six days. Tom Blackburn led the squadron to a Navy Unit Commendation and made the “Skull and Crossbones Squadron” one of the most successful squadron’s in the annals of air warfare.
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764336645
SKU
V9780764336645
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Ref
99-50
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