Book ID: CBB005310601

Arado Ar 196 Units in Combat (2021)

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Mark Postlethwaite (Contributor)
Janusz Swiatlon (Contributor)
Peter de Jong (Author)


Osprey Publishing


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 96
Language: English

A detailed study of the attractive Arado Ar 196, one of the last fighting seaplanes. It was the standard seagoing aircraft for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II, providing the Luftwaffe with reach into the southern oceans. Beating its biplane rivals in a 1936 Reich Air Ministry design competition, the Arado Ar 196 provided the Kriegsmarine with possibly the best shipborne reconnaissance seaplane of World War II. Replacing the Heinkel He 60 biplane as the standard catapult-launched floatplane embarked on the Kriegsmarine's capital ships, the Ar 196 flew an assortment of combat missions during World War II, including coastal patrol, submarine hunting, light bombing, general reconnaissance, and convoy escort sorties. The first vessel to take its Ar 196A-1s to sea was the pocket battleship Graf Spee, which embarked two in the autumn of 1939. The battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz could carry six Arados each, the battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst four, and smaller pocket battleships and cruisers two. Shore-based aircraft were also operated from coastal ports on the Channel, Baltic, North Sea, and Bay of Biscay coasts, as well as in the Balkans and Mediterranean. In this title, supported by an excellent selection of photographs and full-color illustrations, Peter de Jong explores the history of the Arado Ar 196, detailing their development and assessing the combat capabilities of one of the last fighting seaplanes.

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Authors & Contributors
Uziel, Daniel
Mark C. Wilkins
Edward P.F. Rose
Jan Forsgren
Bartłomiej Belcarz
Leo Marriott
Concepts
Technology and war; technology and the military
World War II
Aircraft; airplanes
Development of technology; change in technology
Military technology
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
France
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Institutions
Luftwaffe (Germany)
Kriegsmarine (Germany)
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States Navy
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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