Gloster Gladiator Aces
Contributors: John Weal (Illustrator)
Series: Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 44
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: February 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781841762890
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; European history: First World War; European history: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military; History; History - Military / War; Europe; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Military - General; History / Military / Aviation; Military - World War II
First sentence: That the Gladiator entered service as the RAF's last biplane fighter is a monument to conservative thinking in the mid-1930s, though fortunately RAF Fighter Command had largely re-equipped with the eight-gun monoplane Hurricane and Spitfire by the start of the war.