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Consolidated PB4Y-1/1P Liberator

Author : Steve Ginter
Publisher : Ginter Books
ISBN 13 : 9780996825870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Consolidated PB4Y-1/1P Liberator written by Steve Ginter and published by Ginter Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy's acquisition of the B-24D as a long range patrol bomber/sub hunter (PB4Y-1) and as a long range photo recon platform (PB4Y-1P) marked a major shift in patrol doctrine and the eventual end to the flying boat patrol plane. The Navy Liberators became a one ship strike force as they roamed thousands of miles on sector searches and destroyed more than 1,000 ships and hundreds of aircraft. The original under-gunned early B-24Ds were up-gunned with bow turrets from Consolidated, ERCO, MPC, and Emerson and with Sperry ball turrets in their bellies when search radar was not fitted. The B-24Ds were replaced with B-24Js, B-24Ls, and B-24Ms all designated PB4Y-1/1Ps. The PB4Y-1P photo planes were used to map and survey Japanese strongholds before invasions and discover new airfields and fleet movements. No mission was too far or too dangerous. It was in a remote control PB4Y-1 flying bomb that Joe Kennedy was killed over England. After the war, photo squadrons continued to operate the photo version into the early 1050s. The book covers all engineering details and structures and covers all the PB4Y-1 squadron's history and most combat operations.

Convair PB4Y-2/P4Y-2 Privateer

Author : Nicholas Veronico
Publisher : Steve Ginter
ISBN 13 : 9780984611461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Convair PB4Y-2/P4Y-2 Privateer written by Nicholas Veronico and published by Steve Ginter. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Privateer was a heavily armed (6-twin .50 cal. machine gun turrets) four-engine, long range, land-based, patrol bomber developed from the famous B-24/PB4Y-1 Liberator. It was responsible for sinking over 550 Japanese ships and shooting down almost 50 enemy aircraft. It usually operated alone but sometimes with a second Privateer on its missions lasting up to 11-12 hours at a time.

H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer

Author : Edward M. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472852524
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer by : Edward M. Young

Download or read book H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer written by Edward M. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics deployed by both US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and analyzing the technical improvements installed throughout the war. The PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer was the US Navy's first four-engined, land-based bomber, adapted and allocated to fight the U-boat menace in the Atlantic and protect the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean. The long range, speed, armament and bomb load of the PB4Y-1 enabled the US Navy's Pacific squadrons to adopt more aggressive tactics. The PB4Y-1, and its follow-on PB4Y-2, engaged in dangerous bombing missions against Japanese installations, shipping strikes, and air combat. On the other side, with its doctrine of making the first strike against an enemy fleet, the Imperial Japanese Navy recognized the vital importance of maritime reconnaissance, relying on carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, ship-borne floatplanes and, for long-range maritime patrol, flying boats. The Japanese would continue to develop their aircraft throughout the war, resulting, among others, in the H6K 'Mavis' and the H8K2 'Emily', which despite never achieving a victory, was regarded by the Allied pilots as the most difficult Japanese aircraft to destroy. Enriched with specially commissioned artwork, including armament and cockpit views, battlescenes and technical diagrams, this title analyses technical specifications in detail. By including first-hand accounts, aviation expert Edward Young provides a detailed account of these one-sided yet dramatic and aggressive combats.

Consolidated-Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer

Author : Alan C. Carey
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consolidated-Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer written by Alan C. Carey and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation's (Convair) attempt to make a few design changes to its famous B-24 Liberator for the U.S. Navy in 1942 eventually evolved into the PB4Y-2 Privateer, a 70,000-pound patrol bomber equipped with state-of-the-art electronics gear, armed with twelve .50-caliber machine guns, and the capability to deliver bombs, depth charges, and guided missiles. Beginning with the development and production of the aircraft, this book presents an in-depth examination of the patrol bomber's entire operational history from 1942 to the present. Containing over 260 photographs and line art, the book covers the PB4Y-2's service with the U.S. Navy, French Aéronavale, Republic of China Air Force, various countries of Latin America, and finally as a slurry bomber for aerial fire fighting companies.

United States Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squadrons in Great Britain During World War II

Author : Alan C. Carey
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764317750
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis United States Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squadrons in Great Britain During World War II by : Alan C. Carey

Download or read book United States Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squadrons in Great Britain During World War II written by Alan C. Carey and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Careys new book, his fifth on USN and USMC bomber units of the Second World War, is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber out of Dunkeswell and Upottery, England during World War II. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator squadrons were unlike their counterparts in the U.S. Armys 8th Air Force, who battled their way through thick flak and swarms of German fighters while flying to and from targets in continental Europe. The job of U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator aircrews was to keep German U-boats from successfully operating in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel by going out day after day, often in miserable weather conditions, on unrelenting search and destroy missions. During the war, FAW-7 Liberators were responsible for the sinking of five U-boats and damaging many more.

B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War

Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008322
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War by : Robert F Dorr

Download or read book B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War written by Robert F Dorr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the Japanese storm with a handful of bomb groups, which played a crucial role in checking the enemy's progress firstly in New Guinea, and then actively participating in the 'island hopping' campaign through the south-west Pacific.

B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force

Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008330
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force by : Robert F Dorr

Download or read book B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force written by Robert F Dorr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.

Nightstalkers

Author : Richard Phillip Lawless
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636242065
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Nightstalkers written by Richard Phillip Lawless and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never-before-told story of the 868th Bomb Squadron, the Nightstalkers, who paired cutting-edge technology with daring—launching single-aircraft night-time missions stalking the Japanese in the Pacific. In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the “Wright Project,” departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific to join the fight against the Empire of Japan. Operating independently, under sealed orders drafted at the highest levels of Army Air Force, the Wright Project was unique, both in terms of the war-fighting capabilities provided by classified systems the ten B-24 Liberators of this small group of airmen brought to the war, and in the success these “crash-built” technologies allowed. The Wright airmen would fly only at night, usually as lone hunters of enemy ships. In so doing they would pave the way for the United States to enter and dominate a new dimension of war in the air for generations to come. This is their story, from humble beginnings at MIT’s Radiation Lab and hunting U-boats off America’s eastern shore, through to the campaigns of the war in the Pacific in their two-year march toward Tokyo. The Wright Project would prove itself to be a combat leader many times over and an outstanding technology innovator, evolving to become the 868th Bomb Squadron. Along the way the unit would be embraced by unique personalities and the dynamic leadership, from Army Air Force General Hap Arnold through combat commanders who flew the missions. In this account, the reader will meet radar warfare pioneers and squadron leaders who were never satisfied that they had pushed the men, the aircraft, and the technologies to the full limit of their possibilities. Comprehensive and highly personal, this story can now be revealed for the very first time, based on official sources, and interviews with the young men who flew into the night.

Consolidated PB2Y Coronado

Author : Richard Hoffman
Publisher : Naval Fighters
ISBN 13 : 9780942612851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Consolidated PB2Y Coronado written by Richard Hoffman and published by Naval Fighters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PB2Y Coronado was a large flying boat patrol bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft. After deliveries of the PBY Catalina, also a Consolidated aircraft, began in 1935, the United States Navy began planning for the next generation of patrol bombers. Orders for two prototypes, the XPB2Y-1 and the Sikorsky XPBS-1, were placed in 1936; the prototype Coronado first flew in December 1937. After trials with the XPB2Y-1 prototype revealed some stability issues, the design was finalized as the PB2Y-2, with a large cantilever wing, twin tail, and four Pratt & Whitney R-1830 radial engines. The two inner engines were fitted with four-bladed reversible pitch propellers; the outer engines had standard three-bladed feathering props. Like the PBY Catalina before it, the PB2Y's wingtip floats retracted to reduce drag and increase range.

Above an Angry Sea

Author : Alan C. Carey
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Above an Angry Sea written by Alan C. Carey and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above an Angry Sea chronicles USN B-24 Liberator (PB4Y-1) and PB4Y-2 Privateer operations in the Pacific. The author's previous book, We Flew Alone, discussed the Navy's use of the B-24 Liberator from February 1943 to September 1944. He now examines in dramatic detail the use of the B-24 and PB4Y-2 during the last eleven months of the war against Japan. The author has collected personal stories, over 200 photographs, a tabulation of all aerial kills credited to PB4Y patrol plane commanders, a roster of all personnel killed in action or in the line of duty, individual squadron records, and a list of all known B-24 Liberators and PB4Y-2 Privateers assigned to the Pacific between 1943 and 1945.

B-24 Liberator

Author : Frederick A. Johnsen
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071344487
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book B-24 Liberator written by Frederick A. Johnsen and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The not-to-be-missed, triumphant story of the B-24 Liberator bomber--the most heavily produced American military aircraft ever--told through veterans' priceless first-person recollections and snapshots * Defines the B-24's role in winning WWII, drawing on Air Force archival records and combat photos * Covers technical innovations of the V-24: the tricycle landing gear, as well as a sophisticated airfoil and flap design

B-24 Liberators of the 15th Air Force/49th Bomb Wing in World War II

Author : Michael D. Hill
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book B-24 Liberators of the 15th Air Force/49th Bomb Wing in World War II written by Michael D. Hill and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a planned series that presents the B-24 Liberators used by the 15th Air Force in World War II, noted B-24 historians Robert Beitling and Mike Hill present for the first time the biographies of the individual B-24s used by the 451st, 461st and 484th Bomb Groups of the 49th Bomb Wing in Italy. As much information as is known about the individual aircraft is presented in biographical form: serial number, nickname, how the aircraft received its nickname, number of missions, original aircraft for the groups, and the ultimate fate of the aircraft. The volume will be of interest to historians, veterans and those who are interested in the B-24s that flew in the flak filled skies of the Third Reich.

Flying Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1945-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War

Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782009000
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War by : Robert F Dorr

Download or read book B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War written by Robert F Dorr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the Japanese storm with a handful of bomb groups, which played a crucial role in checking the enemy's progress firstly in New Guinea, and then actively participating in the 'island hopping' campaign through the south-west Pacific.

FLIGHT, CAMERA, ACTION! The History of U.S. Naval Aviation Photography and Photo-Reconnaissance

Author : Douglas E. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130447173X
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis FLIGHT, CAMERA, ACTION! The History of U.S. Naval Aviation Photography and Photo-Reconnaissance by : Douglas E. Campbell

Download or read book FLIGHT, CAMERA, ACTION! The History of U.S. Naval Aviation Photography and Photo-Reconnaissance written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first U.S. Navy aerial photographs were taken in 1913 in support of fleet exercises off Guantanamo, Cuba. Following WWI, a Navy Photographic expedition went north, making the first aerial mapping photos of the Alaskan territory. WWII found Navy shuttermen in the Pacific theatre, performing pre- and post-attack reconnaissance, along with "hitting the beach" to record the war as it unfolded. Shortly after, Navy photographic units were in the Pacific to record early atomic bomb tests. The Navy's aerial photo reconnaissance mission, both at the front end with the weaponless aircrews and the output of thousands of images and photo interpretation, continued to develop through the mid-20th century. The last aerial photo plane in the Navy's inventory was retired after flying to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum Annex at Dulles International Airport in Fairfax County, Virginia. The 74 year odyssey of Navy and Marine Corps aerial reconnaissance photography was finished.

Log of the Liberators

Author : Steve Birdsall
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385038706
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Log of the Liberators written by Steve Birdsall and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om det amerikanske bombefly B-24 Liberator og indsatsen under 2. verdenskrig

Consolidated B-24 Liberator

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consolidated B-24 Liberator written by Michael O'Leary and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned to replace the B-17, when production ended 18,475 Liberators had been made, making it the most produced American aircraft of World War II. This volume features a selection of rare company advertisements as well as detailed appendices of production details.