Fighter Planes

By:

Bill Gunston Obe Fraes

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hong Kong Barron's Educational Series Inc 1999Description: 32 Pages PaperbackISBN:

0764106457
9780764106453

Genre/Form:

Narrative Nonfiction

DDC classification:

623 FRA

Summary: Attractively laid out on illustration-filled pages with texts that speak clearly to their subjects, these books review the technological achievements that have helped to shape history. Each book has between 70 and 110 photos, modern illustrations of historical events, and reproductions of famous illustrations from the past. Here is the history of war planes and their pilots, from the dogfights over the Western Front in World War I to sophisticated jet warplanes of the present day. Among the major incidents recounted is the Japanese air attack on Pearl harbor in 1941, which brought America into World War II and established aircraft carriers and air power as the mainstay of modern navies. This book brings fighter plane history into the jet age.

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Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Library Narrative Non Fiction Junior LIbrary	Non-fiction	623	1	Available	Narrative Non Fiction		1506031150

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Attractively laid out on illustration-filled pages with texts that speak clearly to their subjects, these books review the technological achievements that have helped to shape history. Each book has between 70 and 110 photos, modern illustrations of historical events, and reproductions of famous illustrations from the past.

Here is the history of war planes and their pilots, from the dogfights over the Western Front in World War I to sophisticated jet warplanes of the present day. Among the major incidents recounted is the Japanese air attack on Pearl harbor in 1941, which brought America into World War II and established aircraft carriers and air power as the mainstay of modern navies. This book brings fighter plane history into the jet age.

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