Duels in the Sky
Author | : Eric Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eric Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher F. Shores |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Air battles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herbert Molloy Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Airplanes, Military |
ISBN | : 9780448129822 |
Author | : Tony Bradman |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2014-06-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1445123835 |
A new German fighter ace is terrorising British planes over the trenches of France. It will take the bravery and sacrifice of a Britsh ace and the courage of a hero to bring him down. This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. EDGE - for books kids can't put down.
Author | : Peter Townsend |
Publisher | : Booksales |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-05-15 |
Genre | : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940 |
ISBN | : 9780785815686 |
Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Author | : Daniel Jackson |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813180813 |
Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced that supporting Chinese resistance against the continuing Japanese invasion would be crucial to an eventual Allied victory in World War II. Within two weeks of that fateful Sunday in December 1941, the American Volunteer Group—soon to become known as the legendary "Flying Tigers"—went into action. For three and a half years, the volunteers and the Army Air Force airmen who followed them fought in dangerous aerial duels over East Asia. Audaciously led by master tactician Claire Lee Chennault, daring pilots such as David Lee "Tex" Hill and George B. "Mac" McMillan led their men in desperate combat against enemy air forces and armies despite being outnumbered and outgunned. Aviators who fell in combat and survived the crash or bailout faced the terrifying reality of being lost and injured in unfamiliar territory. Historian Daniel Jackson, himself a combat-tested pilot, recounts the stories of downed aviators who attempted to evade capture by the Japanese in their bid to return to Allied territory. He reveals the heroism of these airmen was equaled, and often exceeded, by the Chinese soldiers and civilians who risked their lives to return them safely to American bases. Based on thorough archival research and filled with compelling personal narratives from memoirs, wartime diaries, and dozens of interviews with veterans, this vital work offers an important new perspective on the Flying Tigers and the history of World War II in China.
Author | : Mark Lardas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2012-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780963459 |
Famed as a classic naval duel, a one-on-one clash between two sailing frigates offered the victor immeasurable fame and glory. During the War of 1812, the Royal Navy and United States Navy squared off in four such duels, the most famous that between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerrière. Ships and tactics between the two nations varied enormously, with the American navy favouring a revolutionary design of frigate, with twenty-four pounder guns and heavy structural timbers, while the British, used to fighting the French and Spanish navies, relied on smaller, eighteen-pounder frigates. Through first-hand accounts of these four single-ship actions and fascinating comparisons of artillery, crew ability and tactical achievements, this book offers an unparalleled insight into the ruthless reality of frigate battles in the War of 1812.
Author | : Tom Bradman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Air pilots |
ISBN | : 9781445123813 |
A new German fighter ace is terrorising British planes over the trenches of France. It will take the bravery and sacrifice of a Britsh ace and the courage of a hero to bring him down.
Author | : Angus Britts |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2017-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1682471586 |
Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy’s First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era. In this book, Angus Britts explores the end of British naval supremacy from an operational perspective. By primarily analyzing the evolution of British naval aviation during the interwar period, as well as the challenges that the peacetime Royal Navy was forced to confront, a picture emerges of a battle fleet that entered the war in September 1939 unready for combat. By examining the development of Japan’s first-strike carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, Britts charts both the rise of Japan as a wartime power as well as the demise of the Royal Navy. Japan, by concentrating their six largest aircraft-carriers into a single strike force with state-of-the-art aircraft, had taken a quantum leap forward in warfighting at sea. Simultaneously, British forces found themselves outmatched in this Eastern theatre and Britts makes the case, by looking at a set of key battles, that this is where the global supremacy of Britain’s naval power ended.
Author | : Eric Brown |
Publisher | : Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Air warfare |
ISBN | : 9781853104138 |
At the end of World War II, Eric Brown had the extraordinary experience of testing no fewer than 55 captured individual German aircraft types. These ranged from such exotic creations as the prone-pilot Berlin B9 and Horten IV, the push-and-pull Dornier DO335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager, to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany's Third Reich. Brown also interrogated many of the leading German wartime aviation personalities, such as Willy Messerschmitt, Ernst Heinkel, Kurt Tank and Hanna Reitsch. From this background knowledge of German aviation he has selected those he considers the most important, and presents detailed descriptions of their background and characteristics.