BOMBING COLOURS BRITISH BOMBER CAMOUFLAGE AND MARKINGS 1914-1937
Written by Bruce Robertson
Published by Patrick Stephens
in 1972
ISBN: 0850590930
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- AIR FORCE
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- WORLD WAR I
BOMBING COLOURS BRITISH BOMBER CAMOUFLAGE AND MARKINGS 1914-1937
Written by Bruce Robertson.
Stock no. 1813952
1st.
1972.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The development of the bomber as a weapon of war during the First World War and as an instrument for keeping the peace in the years that followed. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0850590930. White pictorial dustwrapper is browned to edges and red title to spine has faded to yellow.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Author's Preface
- Illustrations
- Chapter
- 1 Bombers before fighters
- 2 French and American bombers in British service
- 3 Camouflage introduced
- 4 The de Havilland day bombers - DH4 and DH9
- 5 The Handley Page night bombers-0/100, 0/400 and V/1500
- 6 Emergency and makeshift bombers
- 7 Experimentation and standardisation
- 8 Wartime bombers in post-war service - DH10 and Vickers Vimy
- 9 The RAF's mainstay in the 1920s-DH9A
- 10 The Vickers bomber transports - Vernon, Victoria and Valentia
- 11 Post-war single-engined bombers
- 12 The Virginia night bombers - Mks I to X
- 13 Handley Page second generation night bombers - Hyderabad and Hinaidi
- 14 The Boulton & Paul day bombers - Sidestrand and Overstrand
- 15 Fairey day bombers - Fox, IIIF and Gordon
- 16 Mainstay light bomber of the 1930s - Hawker Hart
- 17 Interim bomber - Hawker Hind
- 18 Last of the biplane bombers - Handley Page Heyford
- 19 First of the monoplane bombers - Fairey Hendon
- 20 Towards a new era in markings
- Appendices