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DOUBLE DECKER C 666 IBD

NAVAL & MILITARY PRESS
01 / 2017
9781783313006
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Sinopsis

Author Captain Haupt Heydemarck was a German Great War aerial observer who based his trilogy of books - of which this is the opening volume - on Western Front combat reports from 1915, written at the time when he was flying fighting patrols against the French. Eminently readable, Heydemarck&rsquo,s account of flying with his pilot partner &lsquo,Take&rsquo, Engmann gives a lively account of the often hair-raising incidents in the early days of combat flying - such as freezing bombs caught in their release mechanism, machine guns that jam in the cold, blinding searchlights at night, anti-aircraft fire by day, and French fighters. Heydemarck copes with all this while doing his observer',s job, (jotting down observations, taking reconnaissance photographs, a number of which are reproduced in the book) fitting in his dual role as a navigator into the bargain.

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