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Author : Garrett Middlebrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Air Combat at 20 Feet written by Garrett Middlebrook and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garrett Middlebrook
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1449067476
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Air Combat at 20 Feet written by Garrett Middlebrook and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the cockpit and become a co-pilot with a WWII straffer bomber-pilot attacking at 20 feet. In route to the target share his fear and agony. When attack time comes observe that his mental concentration consumes his fear as he fights with 8 machine guns while bombing and maneuvering. Intelligence is his ultimate weapon. An inferno of the target is the result. Departing the target, he fights 10 Jap fighter planes in an hour-long battle. When you reach home base you will say: "I never want to relive that horrendous ordeal."
Author : Garrett Middlebrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418477899
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Air Combat at 20 Feet written by Garrett Middlebrook and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the history of earth for at least 250 million years. Evidence is found in newly-discovered craters up to 3640 miles in diameter. More than 200 have been cataloged. Comets appear to have exploded at high altitudes in contrast to the familiar craters from impacting asteroids. The first chapter describes and illustrates every region on the globe. These explosions closed all the geological eras, repeatedly reset the clock of evolution, and started lava flows. Major cracks in bedrock became mid-ocean ridges, leading to the present location of the continents. Overthrusting of stretched bedrock during rebound created subduction trenches down which ocean floor is lost under island arcs. Geographical features of the modern world reveal the craters. Evidence includes mountain ranges, earthquakes, volcanoes, rivers, seas, and islands of every kind. In refilling the great basins, mineral-laden, rock formations at great depth were brought closer to the surface within reach of existing, mining technology. Locations of all oil fields are explained along with a new method for enhanced prospecting. The explosions have provided humanity with all ingredients required for civilization. One of them, 65 millions years ago, opened the gate for mammals allowing development of mankind.
Author : John E. Happ
Publisher : Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1642939625
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Navigation Case written by John E. Happ and published by Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aged and glossy leather briefcase was discovered when our family house was cleaned out and sold. We came to learn that my father had meticulously collected his military documents, private letters, and souvenirs, and packed them away in this—his pilot’s navigation case. From randomly within, a newspaper article tumbled out. It described a massive typhoon in New Guinea causing “horror and tragedy” and resulting in incredible untold loss of men and aircraft. But larger questions remained unanswered: What was my father, or any American, doing in New Guinea, of all places? If America was fighting Japan, why were we fighting in New Guinea? Aviation as an industry was in its infancy. The sagas of pioneering pilots detail fascinating but deadly cadet training and violent air missions. The narrative flourishes into an incredible story giving the context for all the Pacific war stories from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway island, and Iwo Jima, up to the avoidable catastrophes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990488
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781592721
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Pioneers of Aerial Combat written by Michael Foley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly, both in their country and around the world. In Britain, however, the spark wasn't strong enough to light a fire and it was in other parts of Europe, notably France, where flight began to develop seriously.??Early pioneers of flight faced a high level of danger and many died in pursuit of fulfilling their dream. Although aircraft design had made incredible progress by the time of the outbreak of war, accidents still occurred on a regular basis. For some time, as many pilots died in accidents as they did in combat. ??This publication consolidates a range of stories, insights, and facts that, when combined, offer a vivid impression of events as they unfolded. The chaos stirred up during the First World War and the scramble to develop aircraft in response to the threat to homeland security is eloquently relayed, as are the battles that characterized this conflicted era. The reality of conflict gave aviation engineers and designers the opportunity to test their craft in the harshest of environments, pushing the benchmark ever higher in terms of what could be achieved. Sure to appeal to aviation enthusiasts and historians alike, this work offers the reader a full account of the developmental early days of flight.
Author : S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624694
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Flying against Fate written by S. P. MacKenzie and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as there were in foxholes; and indeed, many airmen faced their dangerous missions with beliefs and rituals ranging from the traditional to the outlandish. Military historian S. P. MacKenzie considers this phenomenon in Flying against Fate, a pioneering study of the important role that superstition played in combat flier morale among the Allies in World War II. Mining a wealth of documents as well as a trove of published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, MacKenzie examines the myriad forms combat fliers' superstitions assumed, from jinxes to premonitions. Most commonly, airmen carried amulets or talismans—lucky boots or a stuffed toy; a coin whose year numbers added up to thirteen; counterintuitively, a boomerang. Some performed rituals or avoided other acts, e.g., having a photo taken before a flight. Whatever seemed to work was worth sticking with, and a heightened risk often meant an upsurge in superstitious thought and behavior. MacKenzie delves into behavior analysis studies to help explain the psychology behind much of the behavior he documents—not slighting the large cohort of crew members and commanders who demurred. He also looks into the ways in which superstitious behavior was tolerated or even encouraged by those in command who saw it as a means of buttressing morale. The first in-depth exploration of just how varied and deeply felt superstitious beliefs were to tens of thousands of combat fliers, Flying against Fate expands our understanding of a major aspect of the psychology of war in the air and of World War II.
Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771977
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Marked for Death written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning nineteen-year-olds falling screaming to their deaths; of pilots blinded by the entrails of their observers. James Hamilton-Paterson also reveals how four years of war produced profound changes both in the aircraft themselves and in military attitudes and strategy. By 1918 it was widely accepted that domination of the air above the battlefield was crucial to military success, a realization that would change the nature of warfare forever.
Author : Doug Gordon
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The F-100 Units of USAFE written by Doug Gordon and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2024-01-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American F-100 Super Sabre served with the United States Air Forces in Europe for a total of sixteen years at the height of the Cold War. The primary mission of the USAFE units that flew the 'hun' was the delivery of tactical nuclear weapons on targets in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The nuclear mission was practised on the gunnery ranges of Europe, the Mediterranean region, and North Africa. The pilots, called bomb commanders, sat alert all over Europe to take off at a moment's notice and fly alone into the heart of enemy territory carrying just one atomic bomb often more powerful than those dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War. These dedicated pilots acknowledged that many of their targets were situated so far away that there would be no prospect of return to their home base and their families and friends. The secondary mission of the USAFE F-100 units was to prepare for conventional war.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Introduction of the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft Into the U.S. Navy Fleet written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365716058
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Thoughts & Ideas From Truckman written by Ben Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original articles first posted on my blog of the same title, and expanded and revised for print publication...Military and war history are discussed, as well as book reviews...Politics is a recurring theme...A sense of humor along with a grain of salt will make easier reading...This is the Fourth, and final revised edition...
Author : James H. Hallas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811771326
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Fly Boy Heroes written by James H. Hallas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive bombers and flying boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others sacrificed themselves for their friends or risked everything for complete strangers. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II.
Author : Ben Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365873854
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)
Download or read book APc-48... written by Ben Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the whereabouts and purpose of a US Navy Small Coastal Transport during the Pacific War, and a discussion of supply and logistics during a time of conflict...This second edition contains revised text for clarity... Other than within these pages, and those of several books covering this specialized subject matter, plus some dedicated online sources containing not much more than the official data releases from the Department of the Navy, little information is available concerning the hazards faced by the men who went to sea in these tiny ships to supply those others entrenched on foreign beaches risking their all to preserve freedom at home...
Author : Ray Wagner
Publisher : Jack Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780930083175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)
Download or read book American Combat Planes of the 20th Century written by Ray Wagner and published by Jack Bacon. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of military aircraft, from World War I to the Iraq War.
Author : Dr Alfred Price
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750980575
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Dogfight written by Dr Alfred Price and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogfight tells the story of some of the most incredible air battles of modern warfare. Alfred Price's action-packed accounts place you in the cockpit, offering a rare insight into what it was like to face the enemy thousands of feet above the frontline. From operations over the fields of France during the First World War, through to accounts of the indomitable spirit of the RAF during the Battle of Britain, to the horrifying loss of life inflicted by Hitler's Blitzkrieg offensive, when more than 300 aircraft fell in air-to air combat during a single day of fighting; this book details the battles and the men who fought in them. The jet age is also heralded in by accounts of the air force's role in the Vietnam War and the Falkland. The role of reconnaissance aircraft in modern warfare is described alongside the precision of attacking pin-point targets during the Gulf War in Iraq. This book not only uncovers how the tactics of aerial warfare have changed through each major conflict of modern times, but also the dramatic narrative allows the reader to feel like they were there in the skies, flying alongside these incredible pilots.
Author : Bruce Gamble
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610589572
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Target: Rabaul written by Bruce Gamble and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of World War II’s Operation Cartwheel, a major Allied operation by US, Australian, and New Zealand forces to take the Japanese base at Rabaul. Prior to World War II, few Americans had heard of Rabaul, a small harbor town in a far-off corner of the Pacific. But it became a household name after the Japanese captured Rabaul in January 1942 and developed it into their most heavily defended fortress outside the home islands. Thereafter, Rabaul endured Allied air attacks for a total of forty-four months—a span unmatched by any other locale during World War II. In Target: Rabaul, respected military historian Bruce Gamble concludes his critically acclaimed trilogy about Japan’s most notorious stronghold. Picking up where Fortress Rabaul left off, Gamble narrates the story of Cartwheel, the multiple-operation plan that isolated Rabaul through aerial and naval siege. The effort, involving all of the armed branches of the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, resulted in some of the heaviest and most dramatic aerial combat of the Pacific war, with frequent clashes between hundreds of planes. The culmination of an amazing story, Target: Rabaul profiles the resolve of the Allied and Japanese combatants in the horrific Pacific battleground—and provides the turbulent, triumphant conclusion to the most comprehensive account of World War II’s longest battle. “Bruce Gamble has done it again! An impeccable researcher and a master storyteller with a keen eye for details and characters, Gamble presents Target: Rabaul, a powerful conclusion to his must-read trilogy on the battle over Japan’s Southwest Pacific stronghold. The heart-pounding stories of aerial combat read like a thriller—and show why he is one of the finest writers working today.” —James Scott, author of The War Below and The Attack on the Liberty
