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Description
Characteristics
| ISBN-10 | 185409033X |
| Book cover finish(es) | Perfect paperback |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Author(s) | Jeffrey L. Ethell |
| Publisher | Arms and Armour Press |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Published date | 1990 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Collection / Series | Warbirds fotofax |
| Size | 19 x 24,5 x 0.5 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION MILITAIRE • APPAREILS - CONSTRUCTEURS |
Description
Sired by the English out of an American mother, said Assistant US Air Attaché in London, Major Thomas Hitchcock, in 1942 The North American P-51 Mustang, against strong odds, emerged at the end of the Second World War as perhaps the finest all-round piston-engine fighter in service.
During the first months of the war the British and French renewed their efforts to purchase US-built aircraft, settling on the Curtis P-40. Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey, head of the US Army Air Corps' Pursuit Projects Office at Wright Field, and his boss, Colonel Oliver P. Echols, regretted this since it would push a new fighter, the XP-46, off the assembly lines. Air Corps commander General H. H. 'Hap' Arnold decided he could not spare the four months' lag in production to change from the P-40 to the P-46—if America were drawn into the war quantity would be drastically needed.
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