LEADER 00000nam a22003853a 4500 001 s7wnmd21qqdzz4s9 003 SE-LIBR 007 cr ||| ||||| 008 220211s2022 xx |||||o|||||000 0|eng|d 020 9781783409716 041 eng 100 1 Smith, Peter C.|4aut 245 10 Skua!|h[Elektronisk resurs] /|cPeter C. Smith 264 1 |bPen and Sword,|c2022 300 272 sidor 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 500 |5MoE|aOnline epub (5.09 MB) 500 |5MoE|aOffline epub med Adobe-kryptering (4.73 MB) 520 The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy& rsquo;s desire for a carrier-based dive-bomber and RAF& rsquo;s preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II, early operations in Norway found the type woefully inadequate as a fighter.As a dive-bomber, the Royal Navy put the design to good use from the outset of WWII. It was involved with the hunt for the Graff Spee, sunk the major warship Koln, suffered with great loss in an attack on the Scharnhorst, helped to keep the German advance at bay during the Dunkirk evacuation and attacked the French rogue battleship Richelieu in the Mediterranean.This book relates how the final design was created, how the dive- bombing technique was developed and perfected by naval pilots and traces the wartime operational career of the type with many first-hand accounts. [Elib] 653 E-bok 653 eLib 655 4 E-böcker 655 4 Historia 655 4 Samhälle & politik 852 |5MoE|bMoE|cE-Bok|hS/DR|xorigin:Elib|zOnline epub (5.09 MB)|zOffline epub med Adobe-kryptering (4.73 MB) 856 4 |uhttps://malmo.elib.se/Books/Details/1130476|zLåna som E- bok