The legendary DC-3
The Most Famous Airplane of the World
Glines, Carroll V. - Moseley, Wendell F.
Bantam Air & Space Series 18
This book was first published in 1979
This is the plane that helped to lift America out of the Depression, and to make civilian air transport a usable reality.
Copied under license by both our Japanese enemy and our Russian ally, this aircraft fought on both sides in World War II, and was even credited with the destruction of a Japanese Zero fighter and the kamikaze pilot flying it.
The C-47, the "Gooney Bird," the RD4, "Skytrain," or "Spooky," this plane of many names carried American paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day, brought the British Chindits and their mules into Burma to drive out the Japanese, helped to break the Russian blockade of Berlin and, as the AC-47 or "Puff, the Magic Dragon," supplied life-saving fire support to American troops fighting in Vietnam.
A great plane that will continue to grace the skies of the coming Century.
Softcover
208 Seiten / pages
some illustrations
very good condition
New York - Toronto - London - Sydney - Auckland - 1991 - Bantam Books
Art.Nr. 20683
