Peter Mersky worked in the Washington, DC area as an artist for a government agency for 13 years. He then moved to Norfolk and worked as assistant editor then editor of Approach, the Navy and Marine Corps aviation safety magazine, for 16 years. He has been the book review editor for Naval Aviation News, the Navy’s oldest periodical, since 1982, having reviewed more than 700 books in his regular column. His reviews also appear regularly in The Hook, Wings of Gold, and several commercial magazines.
15 Ebooks von Peter Mersky
Peter B Mersky: Whitey
Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy’s most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American, mid-western …
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€42.99
Norman W Birzer & Peter Mersky: US Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War
Arriving on station with the USS Ranger (CVA-61) in early December 1967, the first Corsair II squadron became operational immediatedly and sustained its first combat loss three weeks later. This book …
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Englisch
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€17.53
Peter Mersky: F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War
Known to its pilots as the ‚last of the gunfighters‘ due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of …
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Englisch
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€18.36
Peter Mersky: RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird‘ …
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Englisch
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€17.44
Peter Mersky: US Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War 1963 1973
The Skyhawk was involved in Vietnam from the very beginning, including the first offensive operations in 1963 into Laos, and the Pierce Arrow operations immediately following the Tonkin Gulf Incident …
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Englisch
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€18.41
Peter Mersky: F-8 Crusader vs MiG-17
Revered by Naval Aviators as the ‚last of the gunfighters‘ due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader enjoyed great success against VPAF Mi G-17s during the Rolling Thun …
EPUB
Englisch
DRM
€16.42
Peter Mersky: A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91
At the A-7 Corsair II’s peak in the mid-1980s, some 30 US Navy squadrons flew various versions of the aircraft, including six Naval Air Reserve units, and these many of these units saw action across …
EPUB
Englisch
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€15.31
Ted W. Lawson: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that …
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€19.26
Boris Senior: New Heavens
Although Boris Senior may not be well known outside Israel, he played an important, even vital, part in the formation of the Israel Air Force (IAF) and in the 1948 War of Independence. Those who are …
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€20.53
Peter Mersky: F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War
Known to its pilots as the ‚last of the gunfighters‘ due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€18.48
Peter Mersky: A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91
At the A-7 Corsair II’s peak in the mid-1980s, some 30 US Navy squadrons flew various versions of the aircraft, including six Naval Air Reserve units, and these many of these units saw action across …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€15.40
Norman W Birzer & Peter Mersky: US Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War
Arriving on station with the USS Ranger (CVA-61) in early December 1967, the first Corsair II squadron became operational immediatedly and sustained its first combat loss three weeks later. This book …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€17.24
Peter Mersky: RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird‘ …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€17.45
Peter Mersky: US Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War 1963 1973
The Skyhawk was involved in Vietnam from the very beginning, including the first offensive operations in 1963 into Laos, and the Pierce Arrow operations immediately following the Tonkin Gulf Incident …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€18.35
Peter Mersky: F-8 Crusader vs MiG-17
Revered by Naval Aviators as the ‚last of the gunfighters‘ due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader enjoyed great success against VPAF Mi G-17s during the Rolling Thun …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€16.46
