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royzee's review
4.0
Another excellent slim volume that was overdue, time indeed to acknowledge the work done by these machines and their crews airborne and in the hangars. In fact how could anyone who knows owt about modern military aviation not want to read this account of the mighty "Mudhen".
We in the UK are familiar with these beasts - spend a holiday at Center Parcs Elveden and you will find out why. Like distant dinosaurs their come hurtling out of their hangars (HASs) roaring away during the week and if you are down by the lake you might glimpse pairs of them in the circuit. These are nearly always unladen while the ones in this story got aloft with ordnance that would not disgrace a WW2 B17. In fact this book is as much about what they took to war as it is about the plane itself.
Plenty of firsthand accounts, great photos and artwork this is another worthy tome in the Osprey eyrie. Thanks to Jim for some excellent holiday reading, might well get myself a copy to sit alongside the similarly excellent tome on the Navy's "Bombcat"!
We in the UK are familiar with these beasts - spend a holiday at Center Parcs Elveden and you will find out why. Like distant dinosaurs their come hurtling out of their hangars (HASs) roaring away during the week and if you are down by the lake you might glimpse pairs of them in the circuit. These are nearly always unladen while the ones in this story got aloft with ordnance that would not disgrace a WW2 B17. In fact this book is as much about what they took to war as it is about the plane itself.
Plenty of firsthand accounts, great photos and artwork this is another worthy tome in the Osprey eyrie. Thanks to Jim for some excellent holiday reading, might well get myself a copy to sit alongside the similarly excellent tome on the Navy's "Bombcat"!
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