World War II Warplanes

By W T McCleat

World War II WARPLANES: The Iconic Warplanes of World War II is a kids and enthusiasts dream of what it would be like to fly in the most feared and deadly aircraft of the Second World War. The book depicts many of the iconic airplanes that impacted air battles of the war. From the heroic clashes of a Spitfire warplane to the deadly Japanese Zero warbird maneuvering for a kamikaze dive.
The book highlights the might of the Luftwaffe warplanes and the extensive arsenal of the American World War 2 WARPLANES. These deadly fighting warbirds are shown in action shots as well as their blueprints embedded within the text. The Americans, British, Germans, Japanese and Russians warplanes are examples of the best each could bring to the fight during World War 2. A war planes fight for air superiority was the strategic goal for winning the war.
The World War 2 WARPLANES walks you through the iconic planes of this era describing the warbird's armaments as well as its maneuvering characteristics and speed to the attack. Actual training diagrams of air combat maneuvers practiced by warbird pilots are shown.
The book describes the strengths of the fighters, the deadly determination of the heavy bombers plus the versatility built into the new fighter/bombers that attacked forces on the ground or targets of opportunity with a deadly array of weapons.
The WW II Warplanes will inform you about the world's most famous planes in simple, clear understandable terminology. It's a great book for kids who want to read about the warplanes of World War II and dream of a day they may pilot the modern jet warplane.
The book is a must have for any warbird enthusiast that not only loves to read about the excitement of the time, but is an avid collector of books on modern day warfare. The WARPLANES of World War 2 were the real birth of modern day air warfare.
'World War II Warplanes' will IGNITE your imagination and allow you to FANTASIZE piloting a famous warbird. Feel the EXCITEMENT as bomber pilots hold their positions on their bomb run as the fighters scream through their formations with deadly fire coming from their guns.
Read the book and experience the rush of the famous and brave wartime pilots.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SandSPublishing
• Release date: May 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301561179

W T McCleat

Will Thaddeus McCleat - W.T. McCleat Will was born in the Midwestern in the late fifties. He lived his early years on a farm. Will was around farm animals from an early age. He, at an early age on watched cattle, pigs and sheep mount the other. Of course the answer when asked always came back saying they were making babies. His interest in farm like waned along with the puzzlement generated of a Veterinarian’s use of a knife on a squealing pig. In his late but informative years he went to public school with the farm community values defining the curriculum. Strict and immovable subjects that prepared students for the basics. At the tender age of fourteen like many girls and boys he had his first sexual experience with a girl. That conquest continued to excite him to this day. At twenty-one after graduating from college he was commissioned and reported to flight school. Receiving his wings eighteen months later where he went to a real squadron to learn how to fly a combat airplane. He soon transitioned to the new OV-10A used in reconnaissance and forward air controller missions. For a small town country boy the assignments took him to exotic parts of the world where he learnt not only the art of war making, but loved to observe the exotic cultures with varied rituals even in lovemaking. In the early 90’s Will’s plane was shot down and as a result lost a leg and was discharged from the military. He retired back to the Midwest to a small house overlooking a river valley. As with all injured military, Will struggled to find a new life for himself. His ability to retain and recall information and with his fascination in the rituals of other cultures especially with their openness to sex and sexual experiences pushed him to start to write. Will decided to build a career as an author and self publisher. Will’s books are built upon first hand personal experience and about stories he recalled from others. He successfully blends his own experience in novels that are hot and steamy from page one. Will is now a successful writer and has many novels to his name. He still lives in his small house overlooking that still beautiful river valley and tending to his floral garden where he gets the inspiration for his new and erotic escapades.

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Preface

The book describes the many famous war planes that battled in World War II. The relentless British air war defense of the Battle of Britain to the might of the American war birds that defended the remaining vestiges of freedom from the might of the German Luftwaffe and the sleek modern Japanese fighters. The Allies; British Royal Air Force (RAF), United States Army Air Force (USAAF) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) battled the might of the Axis; Germany and Japanese air forces.

The illustrated book shows action pictures of the iconic planes of World War II, from the super-fast and maneuverable Spitfire to the large heavy bombers that devastated the enemies in their own homelands.

Each plane is described highlighting the main advantages each brought to the fight. The book is ideal for the airplane enthusiast and history buffs with its action packed pictures and blueprints.

W.T.McCleat is not only a writer of other novels but he is also a warplane enthusiast. He always wanted to feel the excitement of piloting a vintage warbird, with their incredible speed and maneuverability and the rush of adrenaline that the pilots experienced as they flew into their deadly task each day. WT wanted to capture the excitement of being that pilot of one of the world's most famous warbirds flying into World War II. As you read through the pages, put yourself in the cockpit of your favorite birds. Fly the missions that made the planes and their pilots iconic figures of another time. It is so much fun to dream, so much fun to imagine, whatever age you are.

A Pilot's Dream

It is 1935 the biplanes are still in large numbers with new monoplanes coming off the design boards. All of a sudden there is a rush for countries to update their air forces. The old Spads, Fokkers and Sopwith Camels were relics of a past era. The slick newer fighters Messerschmitt Me 109's, Spitfires and Zero were soon to become common words in our new vocabulary of War birds.

It had been barely twenty years ago pilots were dropping artillery shells from open cockpits on the unsuspecting troops below, but now names like Lancaster, Flying Fortress, Heinkel, Kate would fly great distances and drop thousands of pounds of bombs on factories, cities and just plain ordinary people.

A powerful juggernaut was moving through Europe with its eye on a small nation separated from destruction by a channel of water. Their only hope from being invaded was to maintain air superiority or at least fight it to a draw and then begin the push back of this devastating foe. The Battle of Britain was in full force; it wasn't a land battle. It was the first air battle with the freedom of a nation hanging in the balance. Fighters and bombers twisting to avoid death but charged with completing their mission to destroy the other.

Then a sneak attack launch on a Pacific island not from land, but from the sea by a new weapon, the aircraft carrier, sounding the final blow resulting in the total world at war. World War II had begun and the world, four and one half year later will not recognize itself.

But neither will the new weapons that were required to