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Title: Hellcat: The F6F in World War II by Barrett Tillman, David McCampbell ISBN: 1-55750-991-3 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not mandatory reading
Comment: I have purchased three other Tillman books & they all follow similar format. Tiny bit of detail regarding history & development, a lot of what pilot shot down how many enemy planes on what day. Gives a good flavor for the heroism & valour, the courage of these vets, but it does get dry & redundant after awhile. Few photos, all black & white.
In summary, a good book, nice to have on the bookshelf, but not one you'll be re-reading over and over...unless, of course you are tired of counting sheep...
Rating: 2
Summary: The other guys must have read a different book
Comment: As a major war history buff, this book was NOT by any stretch of the imagination an authoritative book detailing the exploits of the Hellcat.
The main problem with this book is that the Hellcat was involved in so many engagements in the Pacific and elsewheres during World War II that it is simply not possible to write a decent book about it in only 265 pages. And Tillman/McCampbell did not write a good book about it here.
As a result, the book is basically just a summary, filled with lists and lists of Hellcat fighter jocks, the planes they shot down in certain engagements.... and that was pretty much it!
It got to be sort of like reading the Book of Numbers from the Bible.
Nevertheless, I forced myself to slog on, in the hopes that I would find some pearl of wisdom, some brilliant insight, that I had not encountered in another book about WWII.
But there were none.
I give the book two stars only because the book might be interesting to somebody who has not read a lot about WW II aircraft already.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is another that needs to be re-published
Comment: It seems that everyplace I turn, Barrett Tillman is there. He contributes to The Hook magazine, The Blue Press, and is a fellow member of the Association of Naval Aviation, Flying Beaver squadron.
This book is all about my favorite fighter aircraft of all time, Grumman's F6F "Hellcat." Of all the Japanese aircraft shot down in air-to-air combat during the Second World War, this airplane and its pilots accounted for nearly 8 out of 10 of them.
Yet, it was a "generic" fighter, the big brother to the tubby, feisty little F4F "Wildcat" with which the U.S. Navy started the war, but which was outclassed by the A6M2 "Zero" of Mitsubishi, which could outclimb, outmaneuver and, worse--fly further on a tank of gas. So, they could strike our ships while they were still out of our range.
Leroy Grumman and his "Iron Works" at Bethpage, Long Island, came up with the antidote. The "Hellcat" went from drawing board to test flight in only a year, making her first flight on June 26, 1942, almost exactly a year after the Navy had first requested the aircraft to replace the obsolescent "Wildcat". The first flight of a production F6F-3 was on October 3rd.
The airplane had no bad habits. It was easy to fly, and had good visibility of the flight deck on final, unlike the long-nosed F4U Vought Sikorsky (later, Chance Vought) "Corsair," which was dubbed the "Ensign Eliminator."
Tillman, whose father was a naval aviator in the Second World War, has demonstrated a devotion to naval aviation, and has written a number of books about the aircraft of that war and the men who flew them.
His books bring back memories. You can almost hear the unmuffled roar of the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R2800, all 2,000 horsepower belching flame from the exhaust stacks as the airplane strains against her brakes and chocks preparing for takeoff from the carrier deck.
No one writes it better than Barrett Tillman, and he is a fellow Oregonian, to boot!
Joseph Pierre,
Author: Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
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Title: Wildcat: The F4F in World War II, 2nd Edition by Barrett Tillman, Marion E. Carl ISBN: 1557508194 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea by Barrett Tillman, Kenneth A. Walsh ISBN: 1557509948 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War Two by Barrett Tillman ISBN: 0870215698 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: September, 1976 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Hellcat Aces of World War 2 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 10) by Barrett Tillman ISBN: 1855325969 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: U.S. Navy Air Combat 1939-1946 by Barrett Tillman, Robert L. Lawson ISBN: 0760310440 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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