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The Aces of Fighting 17. VF-17's Top Guns in World War II.
Lee Cook
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Num Pages: over 200 color/bw images. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1434.
They were called the deadliest fighter squadron in action in the South Pacific; U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron Seventeen, famous with their Skull and Crossbones insignia, became one of the most successful squadrons of WWII. Flying the F4U Corsair, VF-17 shot down 152 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat in only 76 days. At the end of the war VF-17 had the top four Navy Corsair aces:Kepford, Hedrick, Blackburn, and Smith. After seventeen years of meticulous research, Lee Cook presents this new book, which is also greatly enhanced by considerable VF-17 family involvement who have supplied original material and photographs not previously ... Read more
They were called the deadliest fighter squadron in action in the South Pacific; U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron Seventeen, famous with their Skull and Crossbones insignia, became one of the most successful squadrons of WWII. Flying the F4U Corsair, VF-17 shot down 152 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat in only 76 days. At the end of the war VF-17 had the top four Navy Corsair aces:Kepford, Hedrick, Blackburn, and Smith. After seventeen years of meticulous research, Lee Cook presents this new book, which is also greatly enhanced by considerable VF-17 family involvement who have supplied original material and photographs not previously ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764339479
SKU
V9780764339479
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99-50
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