Friday, August 26, 2011 - 07:28 AM UTC
With so much interest in the Black Widow currently thanks to the new quarterscale kit from Great Wall Habby (see the review HERE), Squadron Signal Publications have timed things perfectly to release a new account of the P-61 in both soft and hard cover editions:
"SS6701 Combat Chronicles of the Black Widow (Soft Cover Edition) $19.95 & SS7701 (Hard Cover Edition) $24.95
Warren Thompson. Dramatic first-hand accounts by the pilots, radar observers, and gunners who saw combat aboard the first dedicated US night fighter in WWII fill this unique volume, the first in Squadron/Signal's new Combat Chronicles series that brings you action-packed, eye-witness war stories, interviews, and first-hand reminiscences from the front lines. In this volume we hear from the crews who rode the Black Widow into battle all over the world. The outbreak of war in Europe left no room for doubt that the United States needed quickly to come up with a specialized night fighter to confront the totally new face of air combat. Northrop was able to come up with designs for a new, specially designated night fighter and a contract for what was to become the P-61 Black Widow was signed on 11 January 1941. After the first production aircraft rolled off the assembly line in October 1943, the P-61 went on to operate in the European, Pacific, China-Burma-India, and Mediterranean Theaters of the war. Experience WWII as it was seen by the men in the cockpit of this history-making radar-equipped night interceptor. Illustrated with 152 photographs; 112 pages.."

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thanks Rowan, I think this author has already published a similar title for Osprey... The P-61 started out pretty inauspiciously, especially in Europe. I put up some coverage from the 422nd and the 425th NFS combat logs in Europe at the following links on my blog(s) having been intrigued by the story of a 422nd NFS P-61 flown by 2nd Lt. Lewis A. Gordon that was shot down by a KG 40 He 177 bomber on 14 August 1944!. I was in touch with Gordon's niece to produce the report at the second link below... 422nd and 425th NFS with the P-61 in the ETO P-61 vs .He 177 P-61 restoration walkaround
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