CLASSIC WAR PLANES MESSERCMIT - Hardcover

Price, Alfred.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861015991 ISBN 13: 9780861015993

Publisher: Salamander Books, 1992

Synopsis

Of the significant fighter types that stamped their mark on aerial warfare during the Second World War, the shortest possible list has to include the Messerschmitt bf109, for by any standards it was an extraordinaryily successful design. It entered production in 1936 and during the next nine years it was turned out in huge numbers. As last as December 1944 production was running at more than 1,000 a month, and by the war's end nearly 33,000 of these aircraft had been delivered to the Luftwaffe and its allies, a figure which has not been surpassed for a fighter. in May 1945 variants of the bf109 constituted more than half of the day-fighter strength of the Luftwaffe, and the type formed the backbone of its tactical reconnaissance units. The bf109 flew on every major campaign in which the Luftwaffe saw action, from the Sahara to Norway, from Kent to Russia. This detailed account charts the history, development abd operational career of the bf109 in its various guises, complete with photographs, full colour artworks, performance tables and diagrams.

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Synopsis

A book on the Messerschmitt BF 109, which is the longest-serving of all German fighters, and built during a production run lasting 21 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salamander Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861015991
• ISBN 13: 9780861015993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48