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Author | : Jon A. Maguire |
Publisher | : Schiffer Book for Collectors |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Contains the official history of the 302nd Air Transport Wing, United States Strategic Air Forces (reprint of original WWII era unit history) on p. 8-102 prepared under the auspices of the Army Air Forces?
Author | : Philip Kaplan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1510705198 |
Download Skytrain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, passenger air travel was expensive, uncomfortable, and frequently unreliable. That began to change with the appearance of the handsome, thoroughly modern DC-3, the twenty-one-passenger twin-engine propeller-driven creation of Donald Douglas and his young California company. The first production models were sold to airlines for $90,000. The price climbed to $115,000 just before the United States entered the Second World War in December 1941. The new plane quickly became a favorite of passengers the world over, and it became the first truly profitable plane for the industry. The threat posed by the coming war made the US Army realize that a military version could handle the vital troop and cargo transport capability soon to be needed. The C-47 Skytrain was born and evolved into specialized versions with many nicknames: Gooney Bird, Dakota, and Puff the Magic Dragon. In WWII, General Dwight Eisenhower was so impressed he referenced it in his famous comment: ?The four pieces of equipment the most vital to Allied success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the two-and-a-half-ton truck, and the Douglas C-47.? Skytrain celebrates the long and distinguished career of this great plane.
Author | : James T. Controvich |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780810850101 |
Download United States Air Force and Its Antecedents Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.
Author | : John D. Plating |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603442375 |
Download The Hump Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronicling the most ambitious airlift in history . . . Carried out over arguably the world’s most rugged terrain, in its most inhospitable weather system, and under the constant threat of enemy attack, the trans-Himalayan airlift of World War II delivered nearly 740,000 tons of cargo to China, making it possible for Chinese forces to wage war against Japan. This operation dwarfed the supply delivery by land over the Burma and Ledo Roads and represented the fullest expression of the U.S. government’s commitment to China. In this groundbreaking work—the first concentrated historical study of the world’s first sustained combat airlift operation—John D. Plating argues that the Hump airlift was initially undertaken to serve as a display of American support for its Chinese ally, which had been at war with Japan since 1937. However, by 1944, with the airlift’s capability gaining momentum, American strategists shifted the purpose of air operations to focus on supplying American forces in China in preparation for the U.S.’s final assault on Japan. From the standpoint of war materiel, the airlift was the precondition that made possible all other allied military action in the China-Burma-India theater, where Allied troops were most commonly inserted, supplied, and extracted by air. Drawing on extensive research that includes Chinese and Japanese archives, Plating tells a spellbinding story in a context that relates it to the larger movements of the war and reveals its significance in terms of the development of military air power. The Hump demonstrates the operation’s far-reaching legacy as it became the example and prototype of the Berlin Airlift, the first air battle of the Cold War. The Hump operation also bore significantly on the initial moves of the Chinese Civil War, when Air Transport Command aircraft moved entire armies of Nationalist troops hundreds of miles in mere days in order to prevent Communist forces from being the ones to accept the Japanese surrender.
Author | : John Wait |
Publisher | : BLKDOG Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-05-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Dusty Plains & Wartime Planes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating review of one man’s experiences during the Dust Bowl era, and WWII; includes Heathrow, Normandy, Le Bourget, and Hitler’s Bunker. The men and women who fought in World War II are often referred to as “The Greatest Generation,” and for good reason. Before ever stepping onto the battlefield, most had survived The Great Depression, and if they happened to live in the Midwest, The Dust Bowl. Such was the case with my father. Dad grew up in poverty in rural Kansas with no electricity or plumbing, not even an outhouse. While in college he became a pilot, and then joined the Army Air Force shortly before WWII. For someone who never fired a gun or received enemy gunfire, he had one of the most amazing service records. He managed two of the most famous airfields in the world – Heathrow and Le Bourget -- then became one of the first Americans to visit Hitler’s bunker only a couple of days after his suicide. From Dusty Plains to Wartime Planes is educational, moving and highly entertaining. This first person account includes some of the most famous periods and places in our nation’s history, including the Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, World War II, Heathrow, Normandy, Le Bourget, and Hitler’s Bunker. The storyline is supplemented with historical notes and fascinating photos.
Author | : Billy D. Higgins |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476637113 |
Download Navigating the C-124 Globemaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--barreling down a runway was an awesome sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever mass-produced), mounted on its 174-foot wingspan, could carry a 69,000-pound payload of tanks, artillery or other cargo, or 200 fully equipped troops, at more than 300 mph. The flight crew, perched three stories above the landing gears in an unpressurized cockpit, relied, like Magellan, on celestial fixes to navigate over oceans. With a world-wide mission delivering troops and materials to such destinations as the Congo, Vietnam, Thule, Greenland and Antarctica, the Globemaster lived up to its name and was foundational to what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce termed the "American Century." Drawing on archives, Air Force bases, libraries and accident sites, and his own recollections as a navigator, the author details Cold War confrontations and consequent strategies that emerged after Douglas Aircraft Company delivered the first C-124A to the Military Air Transport Service in 1949.
Author | : Lois Lowry |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547556225 |
Download Gooney Bird on the Map Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gooney Bird Greene returns for another rollicking classroom adventure in this fifth installment of two-time Newbery Award Winner Lois Lowry's Gooney Bird series.
Author | : Rob Reid |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2009-02-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838909809 |
Download Reid's Read-Alouds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this timesaving resource, Reid makes reading aloud to children and teens easy by selecting titles in high-interest topics and providing context to spotlight great passages.
Author | : Rob Reid |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-01-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0838911471 |
Download What's Black and White and Reid All Over? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reid shows you how to share humor with children, in order to connect them to literature and imagination. The programs and the books he uses are kid-tested and ready for you to share.
Author | : David Isby |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178200713X |
Download C-47/R4D Units of the ETO and MTO Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The C-47 units of the USAAF were an integral part of some of the most dramatic episodes of the European war: the airborne assaults in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, southern France, Operation Market Garden and the crossing of the Rhine. The mass fratricide off Sicily, the night drop for D-Day and the Bastogne supply missions are also covered, along with more typical accounts of training, formation flying, airdrops and casualty evacuation missions. This book details an aircraft that remains a popular favourite and an acknowledged design classic, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers.