Formidable: Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes

Crowdy, Terry

 
9780471082422: Formidable: Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes
ISBN 10: 0471082422 ISBN 13: 9780471082422
Verlag: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2023

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"It's all well-written and well-illustrated with 208 black and white photos and two black and white maps." -- Historical Miniatures Gaming Society

HMS Formidable was a British aircraft carrier during the Second World War. One of four Illustrious-class carriers, Formidable was an armored carrier, able to withstand air attacks, guarding its precious aircraft hangar with an armor-plated flight-deck. As well as its squadrons of fighters and torpedo bombers, Formidable was armed with sixteen 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns, mounted in eight turrets. When action stations sounded, in one of these turrets, sweating in the tropical heat due to heavy asbestos anti-flash gear, lifting shells from the hoist to the gunner, while frantically turning the air into a 'plum pudding' of smoke and flame to smash the enemy kamikaze from the sky, was the author's grandfather, Arthur Flint. Illustrated with almost 200 contemporary photographs throughout, Formidable is a memorial to the voyages and service of Arthur Flint and his shipmates during the war, from the Battle of Matapan, the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Salerno, to the arctic hunt for Tirpitz, before Formidable steamed east to Sydney in 1945 and joined the British Pacific Fleet, fighting alongside the Americans at Okinawa and the final assault against Japan.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

T.E. CROWDY is a well-established author specializing in the Napoleonic Wars and espionage history. Known for his lively narrative and attention to detail, Crowdy's research on Marengo has won awards with the respected Napoleon Series Writing Contest. Marengo is the product of twenty years of research and visits to the battlefield. The author is the Fire and Emergency Planning Adviser for Historic Royal Palaces. He lives in Rainham, Kent.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Maritime
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471082422
ISBN 13 
9780471082422
Einband
Lehrbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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