Soaring Through Silent Skies
Author | : Brian Ehlers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Deaf athletes |
ISBN | : 9789798655418 |
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Author | : Brian Ehlers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Deaf athletes |
ISBN | : 9789798655418 |
Author | : Tim Lynch |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2008-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844157369 |
On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theatre of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.
Author | : Robert Aitkin Bertram |
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Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Alice Cunningham Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Four Confederated Bands of Pawnees |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : America |
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Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Scott McGaugh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2023-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472852966 |
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a cable wrapped with telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, and letters home, this book reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate. None faltered. In every major European invasion of the war they led the way. They landed their gliders ahead of the troops who stormed Omaha Beach, and sometimes miles ahead of the paratroopers bound for the far side of the Rhine River in Germany itself. From there, they had to hold their positions. They delivered medical teams, supplies and gasoline to troops surrounded in the Battle of the Bulge, ahead even of Patton's famous supply truck convoy. These all-volunteer glider pilots played a pivotal role in liberating the West from tyranny, from the day the Allies invaded Occupied Europe to the day Germany finally surrendered. Yet the story of these anonymous heroes is virtually unknown. Here it is told in full – a story which epitomizes courage and sacrifice.