TBD Devastator Units of the US Navy

by Barrett Tillman, Tom Tullis (Illustrator)

Overview

Osprey's title examining the TBD Devastator Units' short-lived participation in World War II (1939-1945). The first monoplane aircraft ordered by the US Navy for carrier operations, the Douglas TBD Devastator was designed to fulfil a requirement for a new torpedo bomber. Just 129 were built, and when it entered service it was the most modern aircraft of its type anywhere in the world. Its only real taste of action came on 4 June 1942 in the pivotal Battle of Midway, when 35 were shot down in a clash with Japanese A6M Zero fighters. The aircraft was replaced by the Grumman Avenger weeks later.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841760254
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	08/25/2000
Series:	Combat Aircraft , #20
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	7.22(w) x 9.68(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Barrett Tillman is a professional author and speaker with more than 40 nonfiction books as well as novels to his credit. His first book, published in 1976, remains in print today as do most of his subsequent titles.

He holds seven awards for history and literature including the 1996 Tailhook Association Lifetime Achievement Award and third place in the US Naval Institute Prize in 2009. Tillman has appeared in more than a dozen documentaries including The History Channel's Dogfights.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE

A NEW ERA

CHAPTER TWO

FLEET INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER THREE

TO WAR

CHAPTER FOUR

CORAL SEA

CHAPTER FIVE

MIDWAY

CHAPTER SIX

ASSESSMENT

CHAPTER SEVEN

SQUADRONS AND MARKINGS

APPENDICES

COLOUR PLATES COMMENTARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX