P-61 Black Widow Units of World War 2 PDF
by Thompson Warren Thompson
Illustrated by Styling Mark Styling
Part of the Combat Aircraft series
Description
The first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfigher, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in 1940/41.
Built essentially around the bulky Radiation Laboratory SCR-720 radar, which was mounted in the aircraft's nose, the P-61 proved to be the largest fighter ever produced for frontline service by the USAAF.
Twin-engined and twin-boomed, the Black Widow was armed with a dorsal barbette of four 0.50-in Browning machine guns and two ventrally-mounted 20 mm cannon.
This volume features all the frontline users of the mighty P-61, and includes many first-hand accounts from pilots and gunners who saw action in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Western Europe.
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- Pages:100 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:20/11/2012
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- ISBN:9781782007401
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:100 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:20/11/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781782007401
