Piston-Engined Fighters of the Argentine Air Force 1919-1955

This book traces the development of the fighter branch of the air arm of the Fuerza Aéra Argentina. Initialy it consisted of a smal number of aircraft whose mission was to protect reconnaissance aircraft, a reflection of an aera when artillery was still the dominant weapon. By the early 1930s, it had developed into a branch whose primary task was interception. The author narrates the history of the Nieuport 28s, Spad VIIs and Ansaldo SVAs presented by French and Italian Air Missions in 1919, the all-metal Dewoitine D.
21 parasol fighters, initialy built in France and then at the Fábrica Militar de Aviones, in greater numbers. These soldiered on until replaced by the more potent and faster Curtiss-Hawk III and Hawk IV biplanes and these in turn by the Curtiss Hawk 75-0s monoplanes, which in the post World War Two years served along the elegant Fiat G. 55s imported from Italy. This is a well developers study of the Argentine fighter arm, rich in details omitted (and perhaps unknown) by other historians on the subject, since it incorporates declassified U.
S Military Attaché and Consular reports, which give further strength and power to the author's meticulous study.