Peter De Jong: Arado Ar 196 Units in Combat

Cover: 9781472844972 | Arado Ar 196 Units in Combat | Peter De Jong | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Beating its biplane rivals in a 1936 Reich Air Ministry design competition, the Arado Ar 196 provided the Kriegsmarine with possibly the best shipborne reconnaissance seaplane of World War II. Replacing the Heinkel He 60 biplane as the standard catapult-launched floatplane embarked on the Kriegsmarine's capital ships, the Ar 196 flew an assortment of combat missions during World War II, including coastal patrol, submarine hunting, light bombing, general reconnaissance and convoy escort sorties. The first vessel to take its Ar 196A-1s to sea was the pocket battleship Graf Spee, which embarked two in the autumn of 1939. The battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz could carry six Arados each, the battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst four and smaller pocket battleships and cruisers two. Shore-based aircraft were also operated from coastal ports on the Channel, Baltic, North Sea and Bay of Biscay coasts, as well as in the Balkans and Mediterranean.

In this title, supported by an excellent selection of photographs and full-colour illustrations, Peter de Jong explores the history of the Arado Ar 196, detailing their development and assessing the combat capabilities of one of the last fighting seaplanes.

Über den Autor

A professional editor and translator, Peter de Jong has collaborated on numerous modern history and aviation history books, and written several books of his own and dozens of magazine articles since 1995. For Osprey he covered the Dornier Do 24 flying boat and the Fokker [...] fighter.

Zusammenfassung

A good-looking aircraft, even captured in cartoon form in Hergé's Tintin's.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Last Floatplane
2. First Blood
3. Ahead of the Atlantic Wall
4. The Seven Seas
5. Eastern Front and the Mediterranean
6. War's End and Foreign Use
Appendices
- Colour Plates Commentary
- Bibliography
- Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472844972
ISBN-10:	1472844971
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	De Jong, Peter
Illustrator:	Swiatlon, Janusz
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	244 x 182 x 7 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter De Jong
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.02.2021
Gewicht:	0,308 kg

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