Peter C. Smith - Dive Bomber!: Aircraft, Technology, and Tactics in World War II

Bibliography

PUBLISHED BOOKS ON DIVE BOMBING, AIRCRAFT,
AND RELATED TOPICS

Berry, W. H. Aircraft in War and Commerce. New York: George H. Doran, 1918.

Bishop, Edward. The Battle of Britain. London: Allen and Unwin, 1960.

Borelli, G., et al. Junkers Ju87 Stuka. Modena, Italy: S.T.E.M., 1975.

Borgiotti, A., and C. Gori. Gli Stuka Della Regia Aeronautica, 194045. Modena, Italy: S.T.E.M., 1977.

Bridgman, Leonard. The Clouds Remember. Aldershot, England: Gale & Polden, 1938.

Brutting, Georg. Das waren die Deutschen Stuka-Asse, 193945. Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch, 1976.

Cabell, Craig, and Graham A. Thomas. Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Dive Bombing Missions, 194445. Staplehurst, England: Spellmont, 2004.

Casey, Louis J. Naval Aircraft, 193845. London: Hamlyn, 1975.

Cathcart-Jones, Lt. Owen. Aviation Memoirs. London: Hutchinson, 1934.

Douglas, Sholto. Years of Command. London: Collins, 1963.

Gould Lee, Arthur. No Parachute. London: Jarrolds, 1968.

Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald, 1970.

Herlin, Hans. Udet: A Mans Life. London: Macdonald, 1960.

Higham, Robin. Air Power: A Concise History. New York: St. Martins, 1972.

Hinkle, Stacy C. Wings over the Border. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1970.

King, H. F. Armament of British Aircraft, 190939. London: Putnam, 1965.

Lawrence, T. E., Revolt in the Desert. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.

Levine, Isaac D. Mitchell: Pioneer of Air Power. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Macleod, Col. Roderick. The Ironside Diaries, 193740. London: Constable, 1962.

Masatake, Okumiya, and Jiro Horikoshi. Zero! The Story of the Japanese Navy Air Force, 193745. London: Cassell, 1957.

Melhorn, Charles M. Two Block Fox: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 191129. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974.

Mizrahi, J. V. Dive-and Torpedo-Bombers: U.S. Navy. New York: Sentry, 1967.

Olds, Robert. Helldiver Squadron. Washington, D.C.: Zenger, 1980.

Parson, Lee M. Dive Bombers: The Pre-War Years. Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1949.

Popham, Hugh. Into Wind. London: Hamilton, 1969.

Price, Alfred. The Bomber in World War II. London: Macdonald and Janes, 1976.

Roskill, Stephen. Naval Policy between the Wars. London: Collins, 196876.

Schliephake, Hanfried. The Birth of the Luftwaffe. London: Allan, 1971.

Sherrod, Robert. History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Combat Forces Press, 1952.

Simmonds, Ralph. All About Aircraft. London: Cassell, 1915.

Sims, Edward H. Fighter Tactics and Strategy, 191479. London: Cassell, 1972.

Shores, Christopher. Ground Attack Aircraft. London: Macdonald and Janes, 1977.

Slessor, Wing Commander J. C. Air Power and Armies. London: Oxford University Press, 1936.

Stewart, Maj. Oliver. The Strategy and Tactics of Air Fighting. London: Longmans, 1925.

Smith, Peter C. Aichi D3A1.2 Val. Ramsbury, England: Crowood Press, 1999.

. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. Ramsbury, England: Crowood Press, 1997.

. Douglas SBD Dauntless. Ramsbury, England: Crowood Press, 1998.

. Fist from the Sky: Japans Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, 2006.

. Impact! The Dive Bomber Pilots Speak. London: W. Kimber, 1981

. Luftwaffe Colors: Ju87 Dive-Bomber. Vols. 1 and 2. London: Classic, 2006.

. Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka. Ramsbury, England: Crowood Press, 2003.

. Skua! The Royal Navys Dive-Bomber. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword, 2006.

. Vengeance! The Vultee Vengeance Dive Bomber. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1987.

Turnbill, Capt. A. D., and Lt. Cmdr. C. L. Lord. The History of United States Naval Aviation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1949.

Winston, Robert Alexander. Dive Bomber: Learning to Fly the Navys Attack Planes. New York: Holiday House, 1939.

Wilkenson, Erik A. Dive Bombing: A Theoretical Study. Aktiebolag, 1947.

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND PAMPHLETS

Air Ministry. Notes on Dive Bombing for the Information of Designers of Aeroplanes for the RAF. London, 1936.

Air Ministry. The Theory of Dive Bombing. London, 1938.

Air Ministry. Dive Bombing. London, 1940.

Air Ministry. Notes on Dive Bombing and the German Ju88 Bombing Aircraft. London, 1940.

Bellinger, Cmdr. P. L. Aviation. Naval War College Lecture, 1 August 1924.

Jones, Maj. Ernest L. Information Pertaining to the Development of Dive Bombing, 191030 . United States Air Force, Historical Division, Research Studies Institute, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, May 1956.

Jones, Maj Ernest L. Bomb Dropping with Carranza. Aeronautics, London, 1 Decem-ber 1915.

Larkins, William T. The Evolution of Naval Dive Bombing. Flight, London, 1943.

Leighton, Lt. Cmdr. B. G. The relation between Air and Surface Activities in the Navy. Lecture to Naval War College, 23 March 1928.

McGee, Capt. Vernon E. Dive Bombing. Washington, 1937

Overfield, Lt David B., Dive Bombing Compared with Bombing from Level Flight. Washington, 1939.

Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Dive Bombing as Practiced by the German Air Force and a Comparison with Proposed British System. London, 1940.

Wilson, Eugene E., The Navys First Carrier Task Force. United States Naval Institute Proceedings, February 1930.

SPECIFIC SOURCES

Action Reports and War Diaries and Report on Sinking of Yamato, Microfilm NRS.19717.

Again we missed the dive bomber, Maj. O. Stewart, Sunday Express, 28 June 1942.

Air-Ground Support Training Programmed, MAG-24, 8 December 1944.

Air Intelligence Report, 31 October 1936. AIR5/137/04811.

Army Requirements of the RAF for Direct Support in Battle, 30 November 1942. AIR20/ 4249.

Aviation, Paris, 14 August 1972 (No. 591).

Aviation and Aircraft Journal, Vol. II, No. 14, dated 25 July 1921.

Betwixt Sea and Sky, Gen. Cumbat. Personal Account of August 1942 convoy action.

Board to Consider Naval Aeronautic Policy, 3 May 1927.

Bomb and Bomb Fuses-Investigation of in Connection with Dive-bombing, 18 July 1930.

Bomb Displacing Gear, 12 February 1931.

Bomb Displacing Gear for 1,000-lb Bomb, 15 January1932.

Bomb dropping from Aircraft, Aeronautics, London, October 1914.

Bomb dropping from Aeroplanes, Flight, December 1914.

Bombing, Dangerous Incident to and Methods of Minimizing, 5 December 1929.

Bombing Developments, 11 May 1933. AIR 116 3473.

Bombing from Sopwith Camel using Aldis Sight, 27 May 1918, AIR 1/1200/04632.

Can we check Rommel without the dive bomber? Maj. O. Stewart, Sunday Express, 31 May 1942.

China IncidentNaval Air Operations (JulyNovember 1937). Japanese Monograph No. 66, U.S. Navy Archives, Washington, D.C.

Command and Employment of Air Power, U.S. War Department, July 1943.

Comparison of British and U.S. Naval Air Services, ADM116 3473.

Confidential Report of Interview with Master of SS Aeneas, 5 July 1940. AIR2/4221.

Contract Nos. 27648 Schedule 900-S8S4 XF1201, Airplane, Conversion to Scout Airplane Change 311, December 1933.

Contract 17648 Navy Contractors Proposals (in view of crash of XSBC-1), 6 July 1934.

Contract 7648-Model XSBC-2 Airplane, 26 June 1935.

Defence, Tobruk, IG Report No. 712. AIR20/970.

The Dive Bomber Does It Again, by Ronald Walker, News Chronicle, 11 April 1942.

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Dive BombersWhy This Awful Delay? by Gen. Sir R. Gordon-Finlayson, Daily Sketch, 2 April 1942.

Dive Bombing, Maj. C. S. Pearson, The Aeroplane, 1942. Dive-BombingA Review of Policy, 9 May 1940, AIR2/3176/54583.

Dive Bombing Technique with High-speed Aircraft of Clean Aerodynamic Design, 2 April 1936. AIR2/1655/5/36709.