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Macchi C.205 Veltro Walk Around (Soft Cover)

Item: SSP5558
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Macchi C.205 Veltro Walk Around (Soft Cover)
Color Series

Product Code: SS5558

Description
By Di Terlizzi.
With Allied bombing raids increasing in 1942, Italy's High
Command launched a competition for Serie 5 (5th series) fighters.
Fitted with a German DB.605 engine, the sleek Macchi C.205s
proved able to blast Spitfires out of the sky after they were
introduced in November 1942. The addition of wing mounted 20mm in
the spring of 1943 enabled the C.205 to take on American heavy
bombers as well. Following the Itallian Armistice some C.205s
turned their guns on Axis aircraft with success as well, even as
Mussolini?s loyalists continued to fly the plane in the colors of
the German-backed 'Social Republic' in the north. The Germans
themselves took advantage of the fighter, temporarily equipping
an entire Gruppe of JG77. After the war, modified C.205s went on
to serve the Royal Egyptian Air Force during its 1948 war with
Israel. Get a close-up look at one of WWII?s most aesthetically
pleasing and innovative single-seat fighters! Illustrated with
225 photographs, color profiles, and detailed line drawings; 80
pages.