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| Author | : Robert F Dorr |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782009000 |
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Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the Japanese storm with a handful of bomb groups, which played a crucial role in checking the enemy's progress firstly in New Guinea, and then actively participating in the 'island hopping' campaign through the south-west Pacific.
| Author | : Robert F Dorr |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008322 |
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Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the Japanese storm with a handful of bomb groups, which played a crucial role in checking the enemy's progress firstly in New Guinea, and then actively participating in the 'island hopping' campaign through the south-west Pacific.
| Author | : Edward M. Young |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006907 |
Download B-24 Liberator Units of the CBI Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The B-24 Liberator was the mainstay of the US Army Air Force's strategic bombing effort in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre from 1942 until the end of the war in 1945. With longer range and a greater load-carrying capacity than the B-17, the B-24 was well-suited to the demands of the CBI. The CBI's two air forces, the Tenth in India and the Fourteenth in China, each had one heavy bomb group equipped with Liberators. These two groups, the 7th and the 308th, carried the war to the Japanese across China and South East Asia, flying over some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The 308th had the added burden of having to carry its own fuel and bombs over the Himalayan 'Hump' from India to China in support of its missions. Despite the hardships and extreme distances from sources of supply, both units compiled a notable record, each winning two Distinguished Unit Citations.
| Author | : Robert F Dorr |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008330 |
Download B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.
| Author | : Maurer Maurer |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : 1428915850 |
Download Air Force Combat Units of World War II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : William N Hess |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008373 |
Download B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the MTO Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.
| Author | : Martin W. Bowman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : B-24 (Bomber) |
| ISBN | : 9781435112209 |
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Provides detailed technical and operational information about the B-24 plane and each crewmember's weaponry and/or equipment. Chiefly includes first-hand reports of combat missions by Liberator crewmembers, many from previously unpublished oral histories.
| Author | : Barrett Tillman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782007199 |
Download SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unquestionably the most successful dive-bomber ever to see frontline service with any air arm, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War. The revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design of the SBD exhibited airframe strength that made it an ideal dive-bomber, its broad wing, with horizontal centre section and sharply tapered outer panels with dihedral, boasting perforated split flaps that doubled as dive brakes during the steep bombing attacks
| Author | : Edward Shacklady |
| Publisher | : Cerberus Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Airplanes, Military |
| ISBN | : 9781841451060 |
Download Consolidated B-24 Liberator Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although overshadowed, to a large extent, by the B-17 Flying Fortress the B-24 Liberator was made in greater quantity, and used by more Allied air forces on every front of the Second World War. The first operational models were used by the Royal Air Force as a transport on the North Atlantic ferry service. The RAF Liberator I, used both as a bomber in North Africa and as a long-range Coastal Command patroller, had ASV (air-to-surface vessel) radar and four 20mm cannons. Its armament was greatly improved when powered turrets in the tail and mid-upper positions were incorporated into the Liberator II. As a heavy bomber it saw service in the Pacific with the USAAF; in North Africa and Italy with the RAF and USAAF. Specially equipped Liberators were also used to drop agents and equipment in Occupied Europe on behalf of the OSS (Office of Strategic Service), SOE (Special Operations Executive) and SIS (Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6).
| Author | : Osprey Publishing, Limited |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 1999-09 |
| Genre | : B-24 (Bomber) |
| ISBN | : 9781855329768 |
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