Brian R. Baker

	Guide To German Night Fighters in World War II - The Night Defenders of The Reich Published: May 30, 2022 Book Author(s): Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez Company: Kagero Publishing Historical Background This book presents a detailed description of the efforts of the German Luftwaffe to defend against the night bombing offensive of the British Royal Air Force during the course of World War II. Of course, the Americans were also involved, but their primary attacks were carried out in daylight, so the main German efforts were against the RAF bombers and Mosquito… more
	Dornier DO 335 Pfeil Top Wings Published: May 22, 2022 Book Author(s): Rys Marek Company: Kagero Publishing Historical Background The DO-335 was designed as a heavy fighter for the Luftwaffe, and featured a pair of DB-603 engines, one mounted in the nose, and the other mounted aft of the center of gravity, with its propeller located behind the tail surfaces of the aircraft. This push-pull arrangement eliminated the drag usually associated with a second engine, and allowed much higher… more
	Nakajima B5N Kate Published: May 22, 2022 Book Author(s): DARIUSZ PADUCH Company: Kagero Publishing Historical Background This book tells the story of the development and operational career of the Nakajima B5N Japanese Navy torpedo bomber, known as the Kate to the Americans, who developed a sophisticated identification system which avoided the linguistic problems associated with adapting the Japanese language to American use. In general, fighters had boys’ names, while bombers and… more
	Crafter’s Square Metallic Marker Published: April 13, 2022 Company: Crafter’s Square Metallic Marker History I found this in a local Dollar Tree Store, and thought that it would certainly be useful for any scale modeler. Other similar type stores did not stock the product. It is a small fine point non-toxic felt marker with silver colored ink, and I have found it much more efficient than using a paintbrush to paint fine line on parts of models. It is very efficient in painting the… more
	Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955. Vol. 5: The Road to War, 1936-1939 Published: April 13, 2022 Book Author(s): Dr. David Nicolle & Air Vice Marshal Gabr Ali Gabr Company: Helion & Company Historical Background This book is part of a series explaining the historical developments of military and civil aviation in the Arab World. This includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. After the end of World War I, these regions were in the process of moving from European colonial rule to… more
	Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War Published: March 2, 2022 Book Author(s): Vladimir Kotelnikov Company: Helion & Company Historical Background This is one of the first historical accounts of the Lend-Lease program designed to aid the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany. The backgrounds are rather confused, because in the late thirties, the Soviets and the Nazis, along with the Italian Fascists, seemed to be working together to dominate nearly all of Eastern Europe. In 1939, The Germans invaded… more
	I-16 Rata, The Fighter That Saved the USSR Published: January 2, 2022 Book Author(s): Oleg Pototskiy Company: Kagero Publishing Background This book provides a very complete history of the development of the Polikarpov I-16 fighter series. It actually goes further than that, as it also explains the political and economic conditions in the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution, when the Tsarist Russian government was replaced by Trotsky’s Communist regime in the twenties and thirties. The author goes into… more
	Italian Aviation Series: HU-16A Albatross Published: December 19, 2021 Book Author(s): Federico Anselmino Translator: Claudio Col Company: Casemate Publishers Background This book tells the story of the Grumman SA-16A Amphibian as used by the Italian Air Force after World War II. It is NOT a study of all users of the type, as the Wayne Mutza book on the Albatross, published by Shiffer in 1996, was. This book gives a very brief account of the service life of the plane, and then shifts to Italian service exclusively. It therefore fills a gap… more
	Single No. 35. NAA Mustang III (P-51B-5-NA) W/Cdr Stanislaw Skalski. Published: December 14, 2021 Book Author(s): Dariusz Karnas, Zbigniew Kolacha Company: Mushroom Model Publications - MMP Books Historical Background The MMP/Casemate Single series of publications has developed into a very useful tool for modelers to add authentic details to their models. The books usually take one type of aircraft, and in this case, one particular airplane, and provides extensive detail, including accurate view drawings in two scales, photos of the actual aircraft in service, copies of… more
	Junkers JU-188/388 Published: December 10, 2021 Book Author(s): Oleg Pomoshnikov Company: Kagero Publishing Historical Background This book provides the modeler with highly accurate 1/72 and 1/48 scale drawings of the Luftwaffe’s Junkers JU-188 and JU-388 series of medium bombers. At the beginning of the book, a very brief description of the aircraft is given, along with some information of the basic changes made when the JU-388 evolved. Of course, the JU-388 did not enter large scale… more