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Great Planes looks into the stories behind the most influential, innovative and intriguing machines that ever took flight. Designed in the 1940s, modified during the 1950s, in service in the 1960s, and state of the art in the 1970s, the B-57 evolved to fill the gap between fighter planes and bombers. This high-speed model also served with the airforces of Taiwan and Pakistan and, in both cases, as with those in U.S. service, saw combat with distinction.

Fighters, Bombers & Planes that shaped WWII and beyond. This Limited Edition collection features 18 iconic planes from Discovery Channel's Great Planes series, including detailed plane specifications, all in a hard cover collector's album.

The C-47 was the most ubiquitous and successful transport aircraft the Allies ever produced. Originally conceived as the DC3 for civilian transport, the Dakota was given a multitude of wartime tasks, even that of a gunship.

Jack Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity, written in a voice as compelling and distinctive as Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon and all the more extraordinary given that it is not an officer's but that of a private. From his arrival in France and his participation in the Somme, through offensives at Ypres and eventual demobilisation after the Armistice, we see wartime life as it really was for the ordinary Tommy.

Great Planes looks into the stories behind the most influential, innovative and intriguing machines that ever took flight. Implementation of captured German data turned this straight wing fighter into one of the most versatile swept-wing fighters the U.S. Air Force has ever had.

The Martin B-26 Marauder was no stranger to controversy. The plane became the first American aircraft ordered directly off the drawing board, an unprecedented action in 1939.In the beginning, the B-26's high wing loading, necessary to provide speed and altitude, made the plane very difficult to fly. The result was an alarming accident rate and two nicknames from the pilots who knew the B-26 well: "The Widowmaker" and "One Day In Tampa Bay".Still, the aircraft survived constant criticism, and when its wings were lengthened and some unforgiving characteristics eliminated, the B-26 Marauder saw service in many war theaters in World War II. The only Army plane ever to drop torpedoes, it became a highly successful medium bomber with a very impressive war record.Here is the inspiring story of the B-26, a celebrated aircraft with a firm place in our nation's history.