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(More customer reviews)Military history buffs will find much to interest them in this lavish photographic album of 34 incredible flying machines, remnants of the kamikaze attacks, blitz and other air battles of World War II, many now displayed in the Smithsonian and other national museums. Eleven full-color spreads alone feature the famous Enola Gay, back from its August 6, 1945, mission to bomb Hiroshima. Even before Enola Gay, the Douglas SBD-6 Dauntless (Slow But Deadly, as it was known) had turned the tide of the war in the Pacific by destroying almost half of Japan's aircraft carrier force, including the carriers set to launch Japan's Seiran (Clear Sky Storm) kamikaze attacks against the Panama Canal. Not only are American aircraft portrayed (including the Boeing Kaydet, on which an entire generation of pilots learned to fly), but aircraft from all theaters of the war: Britain's Spitfire; IL-2 Shturmovik, the signature aircraft of the Soviet Air Force and arguably the most influential tactical combat aircraft of the war; even the Fa 330 rotary wing kite, an aerial oddity designed to provide the Germans with U-Boat reconnaissance. //In the Cockpit 2// displays aircraft from a crucial period of military history and intense innovation in aeronautical technology.
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In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II provides close-up access to the instrument panels, controls, and crew stations of 34 legendary World War II aircraft in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's impressive collection. Using a high-end digital camera with a wide-angle lens and complex shooting techniques that combine digital precision with manual dexterity, photographers Eric F. Long and Mark A. Avino expertly capture every detail of the cockpits, bringing them to life as never before. Insightful text by Smithsonian curators Roger D. Connor and Christopher T. Moore place each cockpit in historical context.
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