American Attack Aircraft Since 1926

American Attack Aircraft Since 1926

This book provides a concise historical survey of the respective types of aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces, and Air Force, and the Navy and Marine Corps to accomplish air attack missions since 1926. The text covers four types of fixed-wing aircraft: indicated attack aircraft; light, medium, and tactical bombers; fighter-bombers; and adapted attack aircraft.

Reports on person aircraft types include the aircraft’s firstborn military requirements, production history, and operational record, normally accompanied by photographs, illustrations, and technical specifications. Four appendices detail aircraft designations and nomenclature applied allround the military, the organizational structure of respective military air units, aircraft designs that never made it into official service, and the evolution of attack aircraft weapons and tactics.

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3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
A first-rate reference on a neglected topic.
By Gary Smith
A comprehensive survey of each American military attack aircraft formulated since 1926, this volume addresses each model from both the historical distinct features of requirement, development, introduction to service, and service history and model variants as well as the technical specifications of each aircraft to include weights & dimensions, production numbers, armament and performance data. A combining of artfully elaborate Lloyd S. Jones 3-view illustrations and crisp David W. Ostrowski B&W photographs accompany each type mentioned. The book is separated into two parts, with part I covering Army Air Corps, Army Air Force, and Air Force attack aircraft, while portion II holds the Navy and Marine models. Four appendixes incorporate supplementing info on aircraft designations and nomenclature applied by the U.S. military aviation arms, acronym letter identification tables for each service, attack aircraft designs that received an “A” designation, but were not produced (illustrations provided), plus a somewhat indepth discussion on weapons, tactics, and their evolution.

2 of 2 persons found the following review helpful.
Invaluable Resource
By Walter J. Boyne
The elder amidst you may recall the days after World War II when factual aviation books were hard to find, and jewels like James C. Fahey’s little compendiums of selective information were eagerly sought out. There followed a amount of time spear-headed by Americans such as Peter Bowers and by a huge number of British authors. They devised a heap of magnificent type and company history books that were published by Putnam and others. Soon after there came a flowering of aviation publications, with more being printed than one may afford to buy.
One that will have to be purchased, however, is E.R. Johnson’s “American Attack Aircraft Since 1926.” Although priced at a hefty $95.00, it combines the good features of Fahey and Putnam in a fact-filled package that makes magnificent casual dip-in reading and will serve as reference for years to come.
Johnson covers three services, the USAF (and it is predecessor USAC and USAAF), Navy and Marines. For each of the services he breaks out four types of fixed wing aircraft, breaking them down as indicated attack aircraft; light, medium and tactical bombers; fighter bombers; and adapted attack aircraft.
The author devotes just three or four pages to each type, but provides a short, enlightening history, full specifications, a good three-view drawing and a couple of photographs. More prominent aircraft naturally get more coverage, but the aficionado will be grateful for that given the lesser known types such as the Hughes A-37 or the Consolidated A-41. For the futurist, the division on adapted attack aircraft types takes the reader into the era of unmanned vehicles, concluding with the Northrop-Grumman X-47.
Johnson, a private pilot, is an experienced author, committed to his subject. His background allows him to convey the most pertinent information, i.e. the aircraft’s lineage, the number produced, where it served and so on. His psychological result of perception learning and reasoning permits him to season his writing with brief anecdotes and observations that make for agreeably diverting reading.
Four utile appendices and a bibliography that includes websites conclude this worthful book.

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