Aircraft of World War II
Author | : Chris Chant |
Publisher | : Mini Encyclopedia |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781838861902 |
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Author | : Chris Chant |
Publisher | : Mini Encyclopedia |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781838861902 |
Author | : Kevin Wilson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681773791 |
The heroic, dramatic, and sometimes tragic history of how the US 8th Air Force changed the course of World War II. The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February—targeting German aircraft production plants—to bringing the Luftwaffe to battle over Berlin, the combined US Air Force-Royal Air Force forces’ round-the clock campaign bottled up the German army in Normandy. Day after day, the American bomber boys watched their comrades burn to death in blazing bombers, or observed their comrades being thrown out of exploding aircraft without parachutes and sink with their crippled aircraft in the freezing North Sea. But by the following spring they had destroyed the Nazi’s fighting spirit and saw Germany broken in two. In this authoritative history, Kevin Wilson reveals the blood and heroism of the 8th Air Force. At the same time, he opens up the lives of the Women's Army Corps and Red Cross girls who served in England with them and feared for the men in the skies, and he hasn't flinched from recounting the devastation of bombing or the testimony of shocked German civilians. Drawing on first-hand accounts from diaries, letters, and his personal audio recordings, the author has brought to life the ebullient Americans' interaction with their British counterparts, unveiling stories of humanity and heartbreak. Thanks to America's bomber boys and girls, the tide of World War II shifted forever.
Author | : Nancy Robinson Masters |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781560655329 |
Introduces the different kinds of bombers used during World War Two, their capabilities, the kinds of missions on which they were sent, and any special characteristics. Also discusses what some of the airplanes were used for after World War 2.
Author | : Barrett Tillman Robert L. Lawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Dive bombers |
ISBN | : 9781610607643 |
With their stout airframes, innovative airbrakes and near-vertical dive capabilities, U.S. Navy torpedo and dive bombers rendered Japanese deck gunners nearly defenseless and played a crucial role in Allied victory. Remarkable period color photography and quotes and anecdotes from pilots and crewmembers relate the stories behind Navy dive bombers. Included in the collection are the legendary SBD ("Slow But Deadly") Dauntless, SBC Helldiver, TBD Devastator and TBF and TBM Avengers. In addition to depicting the aircraft, photos show American airmen testing and training, while first-person accounts tell of missions against Japanese vessels.
Author | : Thomas Newdick |
Publisher | : Amber Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781782749714 |
Author | : Philip Ardery |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081314342X |
" Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery's plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler's Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This vivid firsthand account, available now for the first time in paper, records one man's experience of World War II air warfare. Throughout, Ardery testifies to the horror of world war as he describes his fear, his longing for home, and his grief for fallen comrades. Bomber Pilot is a moving contribution to American history.
Author | : Kenneth Munson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Airplanes, Military |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Enzo Angelucci |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Airplanes, Military |
ISBN | : 9788880956884 |
This is a large format A-Z encyclopedia of every Allied and Axis fighting plane from 1933-1945 - from the famous to the lesser known - in all theatres of war from Europe to Asia and the Pacific.
Author | : Keith Wheeler |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : B-29 (Bomber) |
ISBN | : 9780783557052 |
Profusely illustrated text documents the decisive part played by bombers in bringing about the ultimate capitulation of Japan in World War II.
Author | : Phil Haun |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813176794 |
Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return to isolationism, there was little appetite for an offensive air power doctrine. By the 1930s, however, a cadre of officers at the US Army Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) had articulated an operational concept of high-altitude daylight precision bombing (HADPB) that would be the foundation for a uniquely American vision of strategic air attack. In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II editor Phil Haun brings together nine ACTS lecture transcripts, which have been preserved in Air Force archives, exactly as delivered to the airmen destined to lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II. Presented is a distinctive American strategy of high-altitude daylight precision bombing as told through lectures given at the ACTS during the interwar period and how these airmen put the theory to the test. The book examines the Air Corps theory of HADPB as compared to the reality of combat in World War II by relying on recent, revisionist histories that have given scholars a deeper understanding of the impact of strategic bombing on Germany.