There has never been such a book! This is the first color encyclopedia of hydroaviation of the Second World War, not only the great air powers - Great Britain, the USA, the Third Reich, the USSR, France, Italy, Japan - but also the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Norway, Sweden, Poland. Comprehensive information about all varieties of seaplanes - float, flying boats, amphibious aircraft and ship-based ejection hydroplanes - a total of more than 100 types, both small-scale and produced in tens of thousands of copies, from small single-engine to four-engine giants and even six-engine mastodons like the German BV 222. All about their creation and modifications, service and combat use - not only for naval and long-range ocean reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare, adjusting the fire of naval artillery, patrolling, search and rescue operations, but also as attack vehicles (bombers and torpedo bombers) and even hydraulic detectors.