Dive Bomber!

It is a dive bomber that provides one of the most dramatic images of World War II: a German Stuka screaming toward the ground as part of the blitzkrieg that opened the war. Almost all the major combatants developed dive bombers, from the Japanese Val to the American Dauntless and Soviet Pe-2. In this illustrated history of Allied and Axis dive bombers, military historian Peter C. Smith traces these formidable aircraft from the earliest test runs to their emergence as devastatingly effective weapons in the Pacific and Mediterranean, on the Eastern Front, and in Western Europe. Book jacket.Smith, Peter C. is the author of 'Dive Bomber!', published 2008 under ISBN 9780811734547 and ISBN 0811734544.