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Author | : L. F. Hutcheon |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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This book contains a selection of letters written by a pilot during the first world war. The letters from "theta" were sent to his family, specifically his mother and provide a real, honest look at what it was like for men during the war. The letters begin during his time in training and then continue during his time on active duty. Heartfelt, touching and detailed, this is a rare insight told in the words of an active pilot.
Author | : Joseph Furbee Gordon |
Publisher | : Southfarm Press, Publisher |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780913337431 |
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"Flying a Piper Cub aircraft for artillery fire direction at the front lines against German forces in World War II was hazardous. Shot down twice, Joe Gordon survived to tell what it was like being a pilot of such a plane in combat. The Piper Cub aircraft, flying at the leading edge of American armored divisions, was especially useful as a spotter plane. The advantage of the view a few hunded feet above the leading tanks often resulted in devastating artillery fire raining down upon the enemy just where and when it was needed the most. Joe Gordon fought with the 65th Armored Artillery Battalion in battles from the German border with the Netherlands to the Rhine River and from the Rhine to the Elbe River until almost the end of the European war in May 1945."--Inside back dust cover.
Author | : William L. Smallwood |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574881226 |
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Inside the cockpit of one of the world's most advanced fighters
Author | : Gene Gurney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Air pilots |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeffrey Ethell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Airlift, Military |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Amy Goodpaster Strebe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1567206727 |
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During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. The WASP operated from 110 facilities and flew more than 60 million miles in 78 different types of aircraft, from the smallest trainers to the fastest fighters and the largest bombers. The WASP performed every duty inside the cockpit as their male counterparts, except combat, and 38 women pilots gave their lives in the service of their country. Notwithstanding their outward appearance as official members of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the WASP were considered civil servants during the war. Despite a highly publicized attempt to militarize in 1944, the women pilots would not be granted veteran status until 1977. In the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, Russia's Amelia Earhart, famous for her historic Far East flight in 1938, formed the USSR's first all-female aviation regiments that flew combat missions along the Eastern Front. A little over one thousand women flew a combined total of more than 30 thousand combat sorties, producing at least 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union. Included in their ranks were at least two fighter aces. More than 50 women pilots were killed in action. Sharing both patriotism and a mutual love of aviation, these pioneering women flyers faced similar obstacles while challenging assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. Despite experiencing discrimination from male aircrews during the war, these intrepid airwomen ultimately earned their respect. The pilots' exploits and their courageous story, told so convincingly here, continue to inspire future generations of women in aviation.
Author | : Robin Higham |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2021-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811770117 |
Download Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more!
Author | : F. M. Cutlack |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2012-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781490171 |
Download The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A hitherto rare volume of the Official History of Australia in the Great War, this is the History of the Australian Flying Corps on the western front and in the Middle Eastern theatres. Almost half of the text ( 12 of the 27 chapters) is devoted to the Australian air force in the skies over Mesopotamia (Iraq), Egypt, Jordan and Palestine, culminating, appropriately, in the Battle of Armageddon. The AFC arrived on the western front in 1917, and their first ‘blooding' was above the mud-clogged battlefield of third Ypres (Passchendaele). Australian airmen supported ground attacks in the Battle of Cambrai in November, and during the great German spring offensives in the following year. Australian bomber planes backed up the Allied counter-offensives which broke the Hindenburg Line in the summer and autumn of 1918. Illustrated by 32 maps and 54 photographs.
Author | : Otha Cleo Spencer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Forfatteren, der i perioden 1941-1946 var amerikansk pilot, beretter om de livsvigtige transportflyvninger, der under 2. verdenskrig fandt sted med militære forsyninger og personel fra Indien og Burma over Himalaya-bjergene til Kina.
Author | : Robin D. S. Higham |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811731249 |
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Presents a collection of illustrated photographs and narratives that describes the U.S. combat aircraft of World War Two written by the former aviators who flew those missions.