TBF/TBM Avenger Units of World War 2

Osprey Combat Aircraft 16

This exciting new series is brought to you by the same team that has established the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces volumes as indispensable works of reference on the elite fighter pilots of the 20th century.  Like the latter, Combat Aircraft combines a technically accurate narrative by the world's leading aviation writers with first-hand accounts from the men who actually flew the types in action.  Each volume contains up to 40 specially commissioned artworks, unit listings, all-new 1/72 scale plans and the best archival photography available.  As with the Aces series, Combat Aircraft will build into the most comprehensive list of titles available, detailing the exploits of the men and machines that have shaped air warfare over the decades.

Produced as a replacement for the Douglas TBD Devastator, the first TBF-1s reached the frontline just in time to participate in the pivotal Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942.  As its name suggests, the Avenger meted out severe retribution on the Japanese over the next three years in the Pacific, participating in every major engagement through to VJ-Day.  As a key weapon of war, the Avenger was so highly valued by the US Navy that its demand for the aircraft soon outstripped Grumman's production capacity, so General Motors (GM) was contracted to build the near identical TBM from September 1942 onwards.  Over 1000 Avengers also saw action with the Fleet Air Arm in both the Atlantic and the Pacific through to VJ-Day, and two squadrons of RNZAF TBMs fought alongside American Avengers on Bougainville in 1944.

Author:  Barrett Tillman

Size : Paperback format, 96 pages,  with many b&w photos, colour profiles and scale drawings

ISBN:  1 85532 902 6

Brand new, mint condition. 

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UK postage is £2.70.  Overseas surface mail is £7.50.