World War II Fighting Jets
Author | : Jeffrey L. Ethell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fighter planes |
ISBN | : 9781853104060 |
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Author | : Jeffrey L. Ethell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fighter planes |
ISBN | : 9781853104060 |
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 | : Robert F. Dorr |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610588479 |
Fighting Hitler's Jets brings together in a single, character-driven narrative two groups of men at war: on one side, American fighter pilots and others who battled the secret “wonder weapons” with which Adolf Hitler hoped to turn the tide; on the other, the German scientists, engineers, and pilots who created and used these machines of war on the cutting edge of technology. Written by Robert F. Dorr, renowned author of Zenith Press titles Hell Hawks!, Mission to Berlin, and Mission to Tokyo, the story begins with a display of high-tech secret weapons arranged for Hitler at a time when Germany still had prospects of winning the war. It concludes with Berlin in rubble and the Allies seeking German technology in order to jumpstart their own jet-powered aviation programs. Along the way, Dorr expertly describes the battles in the sky over the Third Reich that made it possible for the Allies to mount the D-Day invasion and advance toward Berlin. Finally, the book addresses both facts and speculation about German weaponry and leaders, including conspiracy theorists’ view that Hitler escaped in a secret aircraft at the war’s end. Where history and controversy collide with riveting narrative, Fighting Hitler’s Jets furthers a repertoire that comprises some of the United States’ most exceptional military writing.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Crescent |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A reproduction of Jane's All the World Aircraft, wartime editions.
Author | : Nancy Robinson Masters |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781560655336 |
Introduces various kinds of fighter planes used by the Army Air Force and by the Navy and Marines during World War Two, their missions, and the weapons employed. Also includes information on the German and Japense fighters used in World War 2.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1428915850 |
Author | : Stephen Chapis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2017-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472823532 |
Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets – principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter – from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat as the Luftwaffe targeted the medium and heavy bombers attacking targets across the Reich. A number of high-scoring aces from the Eighth Air Force (Drew, Glover, Meyer, Norley and Yeager, to name but a few) succeeded in claiming Me 262s, Me 163 and Ar 234s during the final months of the campaign, as did RAF aces like Tony Gaze and 'Foob' Fairbanks. The exploits of both famous and little-known pilots will be chronicled in this volume, detailing how they pushed their P-47s, P-51s, Spitfires and Tempests to the limits of their performance in order to down the Luftwaffe's 'wonder weapons'.
Author | : Dominique Breffort |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9782352502241 |
Germany was not only the first country to get a jet aircraft to fly but above all it was the only country fighting in World War Two to mass produce and above all engage several types of aircraft using this new kind of power plant in the fighting, thus opening the way for air warfare as we know it nowadays. This new volume in the collection "Planes and Pilots", which wittingly ignores the myriad of jet aircraft projects which the Germans thought up all during the war most of which never got beyond the drawing board, only deals with the machines which were built in enough numbers to be used operationally. The Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-fighter, more dangerous for its pilots than for its opponents; the twin-engined Arado 234, better at reconnaissance than at bombing which was its intended role; the Heinkel He 162, the People's Fighter, built in record time but arriving too late to prove the effectiveness of its design; and above all the Messerschmitt Me 262 - the real star among the German fighters during the last year of the war and whose tally of kills gives a glimpse of the real impact on the course of the war it might have had, had its development not been so considerably delayed by innumerable technical problems and, for a while, by crass strategic errors.
Author | : Thomas Newdick |
Publisher | : Amber Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781782749714 |
Author | : Jeffrey L. Ethell |
Publisher | : Naval Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Fighter planes. |
ISBN | : 9781557509406 |
During the desperate closing stages of the Second World War, the Germans brought into action several new aircraft types - the jet-propelled Messerschmitt Me262 Sturmvogel and Arado Ar234 Blitz and the rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. The British introduced the jet-powered Gloster Meteor and the Japanese the Yokosuka Ohka. This book tells the full story of the development and operational careers of these aircraft. It also tells the stories of the two American and one German jet aircraft that had entered squadron service and were on the point of going into action when the war ended: the Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star, the Ryan FR 1 Fireball and the Bachem 349 Natter.