Dan's and Widewing's Reading Lists

[TonyJoey]

I just checked out a good book on the 109 called "ME-109, Willy Messerschmitt's Peerless Fighter". Great book

[Guppy35]

Book lists are always the usual American,Anglo,Axis lists. Shame there isn't more available from Soviet,Japanese,Italian etc.


<S>...-Gixer

It's there, you just have to look a bit harder to find it.  I suppose it has to do with wanting to actually sell some copies.  The folks interested in the other stuff you mention are a much smaller group.  You tend to find info on those birds in more general books.

There is a guy named George Mellinger who is from the Twin Cities that has always been a Soviet AF junkie.  He's done some of the Osprey stuff on Soviet aces.  I know he's done a lot of articles on them too.

There is a website out there that is nothing but Japanese WW2 Aviation.

It all comes down to how hard you want to look in the end, though I would agree it's harder to find the stuff you are interested in.

[SgtPappy]

Alfred Price's Spitfire: The Complete Fighting History was always one of my fave aircraft reads. It had the serial number of practically all Spitfires built - WWII and post war. It had articles about every test we've seen on WWIIaircraftperformance.com and had thousands of pages of pics.

If you guys had to choose 2 books (about the P-38 and the F4U) which would come close to the amount of detail about those planes as Alfred Price's book does to the Spitfire?

[spit16nooby]

Dueling Eagles,  Great book about the Battle of Britain.

[Banshee7]

If it hasn't been mentioned, there's a book simply called Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft wiht full color illustrations of every fighting plane from 1933 to 1945, including bombers, fighters, assault aircraft and many more (ISBN 88-8095-445-8) by Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi, and Pierluigi Pinto. You know it's Italian from the typo on the front.

Anyway, 414 pages of data, info, and mostly two-page profiles for each of 176 aircraft. I picked it up off Amazon for less than $5 because it had a small boxcutter wound in the jacket.

checked it out on amazon..  New starting at $28, used starting at $44

[Guppy35]

Alfred Price's Spitfire: The Complete Fighting History was always one of my fave aircraft reads. It had the serial number of practically all Spitfires built - WWII and post war. It had articles about every test we've seen on WWIIaircraftperformance.com and had thousands of pages of pics.

If you guys had to choose 2 books (about the P-38 and the F4U) which would come close to the amount of detail about those planes as Alfred Price's book does to the Spitfire?

Warren Bodie's book on the P38 is the only game in town for development and history.  EB Morgan's book on the Spit is more comprehensive then Price's which is a good book.  Bruce Robertson's book, though dated, is still my favorite on the Spitfire however.

No clue on the F4U.  I've looked for one on the Hog for a long time without seeing one.  This book on the RN Museum F4U  "Corsair KD431" is the one I have that I really enjoy on that bird.