Floatplanes: War Planes of the Second World War, Volume Six

War Planes Of The Second World War (Green) #6

by William Green, Dennis I. Punnett (Illustrator )

As with flying boats, floatplanes of the Second World War were little publicised, although their tasks ranged from interception and torpedo-bombing to shipboard reconnaissance and patrol. The floatplanes of the Luftwaffe proved particularly troublesome in the Channel and North Sea during the early war years. Floatplanes provided the eyes of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific where the Japanese – perhaps the leading exponents of floatplane design – used such aircraft extensively, and they were employed to some extent by every major combatant. This volumes includes details, photographs, and drawings of more than sixty types of floatplanes produced by a dozen countries.

207 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1963

About the author

Adapted from Wikipedia:
William Green (1927 – 2 January 2010) was an aviation and military author, following service with Britain's Royal Air Force, where he wrote for the Air Training Corps Gazette (later to be become the Air Pictorial).
Green was Technical Director to the RAF Flying Review, and then Editorial Director when it became Flying Review International. In 1971 he and Gordon Swanborough jointly created the monthly Air International, of which he remained Managing Editor until late 1990.
Green edited numerous editions of Observers book of Aircraft and spent most of his adult life doing research and writing on aircraft and aviation. His work Warplanes of the Third Reich is seen as a classic aviation publication. Along with Gordon Swanborough, he also wrote several books for Salamander Books including The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Worlds Commercial Aircraft, Illustrated Anatomy of the World's Fighters and Flying Colours.