Table of Contents

Background/Design/Service History/Operation Desert Fox/Operation Allied Force/Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/The Future/Appendices

About the Author

Thomas Withington is an independent defence and aviation historian based in London. His work has appeared in ‘The Financial Times’, ‘The Observer’, and ‘The Guardian’ newspapers, along with specialist publications. He is a consultant historian to the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and a military history editor for Summertime publishing. He has written several video documentaries examining air power and he is a regular contributor to BBC radio and television, CNN and Channel Four news. Mark Styling has illustrated several books in both the Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series. He has produced some of the best profiles Osprey has used to date in Combat Aircraft 18: 'B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eigth Air Force' (part 1) and Combat Aircraft 22: 'Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko Betty Units of World War 2'. He is based in Dorset, UK.

Reviews

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