B-24 Liberator vs Ki-43 Oscar: China and Burma 1943 (Duel, 41) by Young, Edward M - 2012-04-16

Osprey Publishing, 2012-04-17. Paperback. Like New.

Osprey Publishing, 2012-04-17. Paperback. New.

Bloomsbury, 2012-04-17. Illustrated. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback. Like New.

Osprey Pub Co, 2012. New book, 80 pages, DUE41. During the late 1930s an armament race developed between bombers and the fighters that were bent on stopping them. The development of multi-engined, multi-gun, all-metal bombers forced a corresponding increase in fighter armament which, in turn, led to further attempts to improve bomber armament to ensure its ability to survive in the face of hostile fighters. The US Army Air Corps (USAAC) requested that powered gun turrets be fitted to its two principal long-range bombers, the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator. In reviewing reports of air combat from Spain, China and the early stages of the war in Europe, the USAAC assumed that the greatest danger to the bomber would be attacks from the rear quarter, and thus took steps to ensure that both the B-17 and the B-24 had tail turrets. A powered turret above and behind the cockpit could deal, it was felt, with attacks from the frontal quarter so that the nose armament for the B-17 and the B-24… Read More