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Dassault Super Etendard DH-038 is a 116 page book on the Dassault Super Etendard. This book shows every detail of the compact jet that was used for 4 decades by the French Navy, from cockpit to fuselage, landing gear, wings, engine exhaust and as is tradition: an extensive maintenance chapter. This book also includes a lot of action of the aircraft, both in the air and on the deck of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. Here is practical information on the book: Reference: DH-038 Title: Dassault Super Etendard Number of pages: 116 isbn-number: 978-9-083514-00-0 Number of photos: 200+

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Military Illustrated Modeller (issue 154) 4 NEWS Military scale-modelling news 8 TAMIYA FIGURE SETS Tamiya's new 1:35 Machine Gun Team and KS600 Motorcycle and Sidecar, previewed 12 TAMIYA LEOPARD 2A7V A special, one-off feature from MIM's sister title, Tamiya Model Magazine 18 LEOPARD 2A7V Special reference feature on Germany's current MBT 24 Sturmgeschutz/StuG E-100: FURY ROAD! Trumpeter's 1:35 E-100 in Mad Max style Cover story 32 BUFFALO SOLDIERS 1:35 LVT diorama depicting a scene from the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, 1944 42 LVT references Reference images of the LVT Water Buffalo 44 GHOST FACTORY A scene from an abandoned Tiger II factory at the end of WWII 50 CHAR DE BATAILLE: CHAR B1 Modelling walk-around references for the French Char B1 58 STREET FIGHTERS An M4 Sherman fights through a narrow street in southern Germany 60 ORDNANCE DEPOT New and recently released accessory sets and modelling materials 62 BOOK REVIEWS Military modelling-related book reviews 66 SIGN OFF A US Army M8 Greyhound in Paris

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Morane-Saulnier MS.406C1 1. Morane-Sulnier MS.406C1 2/No. 132, flown by Commandant Maurice Arnoux, 6 Escadrille, GC lll/7, Vitry le Francois, May 1940. 2. Morane- Saulnier MS.406C1 6/No. 163/ Matricule Militaire N-483 flown by Adjutant Pierre Le Gloan, 5 Escadrille, GC lll/6, Chartres,May 1939. 3. Morane-Saulnier MS.406C1 C/No.622/Matricule Militaire L-651, Polish 'Eskadra Mysliwska' Clermont-Ferrand, May 1940. 4. MS.406C1 1/LeLv 28 Nr. 5 (MS-619)Pilot - 1st.Sgt.Antti Johannes Tani, Solomanni airfield, Autumn 1941. 5. MS 406 C1 nr. 842 (L 871) 565 z EC lotnictwa VICHY, pilot Laurant, Madagascar, 1942. 6. MS 406 (No. 307/N725), Capt. Pierre Pouyade, Escadrille de Chass, Fighter Squadron, 2/595, Tong, French Indochina, June 1941. 7. MS 406 C1 Nr.819 (L 848) 1941. 8. MS.406C '7', flown by L. Krten 1/LeLv 14, Finnish Ilmavoimat, 1943.

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Republic F-84F Thunderstreak and RF-84F Thunderflash. Fraught with engine and aerodynamic teething problems that resulted in its missing the Korean War for which it was intended, the F-84F Thunderstreak, initially seen as languishing in the shadow of the more well-known and proven F-86 Sabre, matured to become a formidable fighter-bomber that served not only with the USAF's Tactical and Strategic Air Commands, but also with numerous European air forces for many of which it also offered the first experience in swept wing jet fighter operation. It provided a much-needed deterrent during the critical early years of the Cold War and the 1960s, especially with NATO air forces, where it normally replaced its straight-wing predecessor, the F-84 Thunderjet. No fewer than 2,711 examples of the Thunderstreak were built, so that for a time it was the fighter most in widespread use in Europe, becoming the backbone of the Alliance's combat element. In contrast, its service with the USAF was rather short-lived when newer fighters such as the F-100 Super Sabre and F-4 Phantom with superior and supersonic performance supplanted it in service. However, with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, when these modern fighters and the USAF's other more valuable combat aircraft were deployed to Southeast Asia, the USAF recalled the Thunderstreak for another spell of frontline service in defence of mainland United States. It was only the French who used it in anger when it carried out strikes on Egyptian targets during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Sharing the Thunderstreak's main characteristics including its vices and virtues, its offshoot, the RF-84F Thunderflash, was considered to be the best photo-reconnaissance fighter of its time, capable of carrying six cameras in its abundant nose in 15 different combinations. The Thunderflash, too, was exported to most of NATO's air forces, as well as to the Republic of China Air Force where it carried out routine overflights over mainland Communist China in a hostile environment. The French, too, used it in a firing war, again in Suez, while the Turkish Air Force similarly employed it during its brief war with Greece in 1974. Again, the advent of such types as the RF-101 recce Voodoo and the RF-4C Phantom replaced it in USAF service, while the F-104 was the type that most replaced it in NATO air arms. But both the Thunderstreak and Thunderflash remained in service for a long period in some of the European air forces, the last Thunderflash being retired from the Greek Air Force in 1991. This latest Warpaint title gives an account of these two types' service, with detailed lists of serials, squadron service, production and variants in 80 pages of text accompanied by no fewer than 190 colour and B&W photos, eight pages of colour artwork by and foldout scale drawings, describing the development and operational career of these remarkable aircraft. This book is written by Charles Stafrace and is superbly illustrated by Richard J.Caruana.

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