Description
Product ID: | 9781472820396 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Combat Aircraft |
Title: | Heinkel He 177 Units of World War 2 |
Authors: | Author: Robert Forsyth, Jim Laurier |
Page Count: | 96 |
Subjects: | Second World War, Second World War, Air forces and warfare, Military vehicles, Air forces & warfare, Military aircraft, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A fully illustrated study of the Heinkel He 177 nearest aircraft the Luftwaffe had to a strategic bomber that saw operational service in World War II. In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 "Greif" (Griffon) was Nazi Germany''s "lost" strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built in numbers, the He 177 would have offered the Luftwaffe the means with which to carry out long-range, mass bombing attacks against targets of a strategic nature. Although competing interests and personalities served to prevent this from happening, from mid-1943 the aircraft nevertheless saw service over England, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and in Russia. The He 177 flew to the end of the war, with some machines undertaking extremely hazardous low-level missions against Soviet armor in Poland in late 1944--45. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-07-26 |