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Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dominator, the Story of the Consolidated B-32 Bomber written by Stephen Harding and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin A. Sinko
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615158986
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Echoes of the Dominator written by Benjamin A. Sinko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was the companion Very Heavy Bomber to the famed Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Used extensively for a revolutionary crew training program in the United States during 1945 just nine reached the Pacific before VJ day. The Dominator made its mark on history in the skies over Tokyo. Just days after the official cease fire was agreed on it battled Japanese fighters over a two day period marking the last official aerial combat of World War II. With the completion of the war every B-32 was scrapped and it slipped from history. Echoes of the Dominator brings to life the stories of the B-32 Dominator as never told before through the eyes of the men who flew it into the pages of history. Follow the men through training and into combat where their lives were forever changed by events that occurred when the war was supposed to be over.
Author : William Wolf
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Consolidated B-32 Dominator written by William Wolf and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years the B-32 has been described only in a small number of magazine articles and in a booklet that have generally given a superficial and incomplete account, maligning the bomber, fairly or not, as a mediocre design besieged with developmental problems and a lackluster combat record. Consolidated B-32 Dominator - The Ultimate Look: from Drawing Board to Scrapyard is the definitive description and appraisal of this neglected bomber's development, testing, manufacture, and combat experience. The author used company design and production information, flight and test evaluations, along with previously unexplored Flight Manuals and Consolidated-Vultee Erection and Maintenance Manuals. From rare microfilm of original material and insights and personal narratives of the personnel involved, Wolf has gathered information on the pre-combat testing and all the combat missions of the bomber in the Pacific.
Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823381
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Last to Die written by Stephen Harding and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable untold story of how a young American airman became the last to die in World War II
Author : William Wolf
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764325816
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Douglas B-18 Bolo written by William Wolf and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wolf brings his meticulous research to describe the little known Douglas B-18 Bolo which was America's most numerous front line bomber at the time of Pearl Harbor. Over the years the story of the airliner turned bomber has languished in obscurity and the few articles on the subject in popular aviation magazines have emphasized its faults and maligned it as a budget bomber that had few virtues. Wolf's comprehensive book is the first ever on the subject and gives the reader the definitive description and appraisal of this neglected bomber's development, testing, manufacture, the aircraft per se, and combat experience.
Author : Lori S. Hawthorne-Tagg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Development of the B-52 written by Lori S. Hawthorne-Tagg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book American Warplanes of WWII written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Wolf
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764329302
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (293 download)
Download or read book North American B-25 Mitchell written by William Wolf and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wolf presents a comprehensive, meticulously researched volume describing the celebrated World War II B-25 Mitchell. The reader is given an inclusive description and appraisal of the bomber's development, testing, manufacture; and then every aspect of the aircraft, its equipment, and crew is described and illustrated in comprehensive detail. Since the Mitchell was renowned for its combat versatility its armament and ordnance are described and depicted at length. This book is truly the "Ultimate Look" at the B-25 and a must for the World War II aviation enthusiast, historian, and modeler.
Author : J'Nell L. Pate
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0876112580
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Arsenal of Defense written by J'Nell L. Pate and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named after Mexican War general William Jenkins Worth, Fort Worth began as a military post in 1849. More than a century and a half later, the defense industry remains Fort Worth’s major strength with Lockheed Martin’s F-35s and Bell Helicopter’s Ospreys flying the skies over the city. Arsenal of Defense: Fort Worth’s Military Legacy covers the entire military history of Fort Worth from the 1840s with tiny Bird’s Fort to the massive defense plants of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Although the city is popularly known as “Cowtown” for its iconic cattle drives and stockyards, soldiers, pilots, and military installations have been just as important—and more enduring—in Fort Worth’s legacy. Although Bird’s Fort provided defense for early North Texas settlers in the mid nineteenth century, it was the major world conflicts of the twentieth century that developed Fort Worth’s military presence into what it is today. America’s buildup for World War I brought three pilot training fields and the army post Camp. During World War II, headquarters for the entire nation’s Army Air Forces Flying Training Command came to Fort Worth. The military history of Fort Worth has been largely an aviation story—one that went beyond pilot training to the construction of military aircraft. Beginning with Globe Aircraft in 1940, Consolidated in 1942, and Bell Helicopter in 1950, the city has produced many thousands of military aircraft for the defense of the nation. Lockheed Martin, the descendant of Consolidated, represents an assembly plant that has been in continuous existence for over seven decades. With Lockheed Martin the nation’s largest defense contractor, Bell the largest helicopter producer, and the Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Federal Medical Center Carswell the reservist’s training pattern for the nation, Fort Worth’s military defense legacy remains strong. Arsenal of Defense won first place in the Press Women of Texas Communications Contest (2012).
Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822091
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Last Battle written by Stephen Harding and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops May, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. The Last Battle tells the nearly unbelievable story of the unlikeliest battle of the war, when a small group of American tankers, led by Captain Lee, joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops seeking to capture Castle Itter and execute the stronghold's VIP prisoners. It is a tale of unlikely allies, startling bravery, jittery suspense, and desperate combat between implacable enemies.
Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Author : Yefim Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910809419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Mikoyan MiG-31: Famous Russian Aircraft written by Yefim Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 1965, when the MiG-25 interceptor was in the midst of its test program, the Mikoyan Design Bureau started work on an even more capable two-seat interceptor meant to provide adequate protection for the huge expanses of Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Though superficially resembling a MiG-25 with tandem cockpits, the aircraft was soon designated the MiG-31. Initially dubbed Super Foxbat in the West but soon renamed Foxhound, the MiG-31 first flew on 16 September 1975 and, after a five-year trials program, achieved initial operational capability in 1980. Full-scale deliveries began in 1982 to units covering the Moscow Air Defense Zone, the Arctic and the Far East. One of the effects was that the SR-71s now stayed away from the Soviet borders. Efforts to improve the Foxhound began right away. In-flight refueling capability was added in 1989 to overcome the problem of inadequate range. Next, the MiG-31B, featuring upgraded avionics and better weapons, entered production in 1990; existing MiG-31s were brought up to the new standard (except for IFR capability) as the MiG-31BS. The radically improved 'Generation 4+' MiG-31M featuring a new WCS and new R-37 ultra-long-range AAMs first flew in 1985 but never entered production because of funding shortages. Today, the MiG-31s remains one of modern Russia's key air defense assets, and new versions keep appearing. The book gives the complete development and service history of this remarkable aircraft and is richly illustrated with color photos and color artwork throughout.
Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760341222
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Mission to Tokyo written by Robert F. Dorr and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hell Hawks! author Bob Dorr, Mission to Tokyo takes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield on the western Pacific island of Tinian to Tokyo and back. Told in the veterans' words, Mission to Tokyo is a narrative of every aspect of long range bombing, including pilots and other aircrew, groundcrew, and escort fighters that accompanied the heavy bombers on their perilous mission. Several thousand men on the small Mariana Islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian were trying to take the war to the Empire—Imperial Japan—in B-29 Superfortresses flying at 28,000 feet, but the high-altitude bombing wasn't very accurate. The decision was made to take the planes down to around 8,000 feet, even as low as 5,000 feet. Eliminating the long climb up would save fuel, and allow the aircraft to take heavier bomb loads. The lower altitude would also increase accuracy substantially. The trade-off was the increased danger of anti-aircraft fire. This was deemed worth the risk, and the devastation brought to the industry and population of the capital city was catastrophic. Unfortunately for all involved, the bombing did not bring on the quick surrender some had hoped for. That would take six more months of bombing, culminating in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As with Mission to Berlin (Spring 2011), Mission to Tokyo focuses on a specific mission from spring 1945 and provides a history of the strategic air war against Japan in alternating chapters.
Author : Mark A. Lorell
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bomber R & D Since 1945 written by Mark A. Lorell and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors conclude that relevant experience does, indeed, matter--firms develop valuable system-specific knowledge in ongoing work, and experience in important new technologies has a distinct advantage.
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Total Pages : 874 pages
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Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II: Plans and early operations, January 1939 to August 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 680 pages
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Download or read book Air Power History written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Warbirds written by John C. Fredriksen and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warbirds pays special attention to the aircraft of America's Golden Age, 1919–1939, and the breakthrough technological developments of that era. Warbirds offers more than 300 A–Z entries of the aircraft of America's Golden Age. Each entry includes a photograph of the warplane, service dates, manufacturer, records set, engineering and performance history, technical innovations, and even operational problems. To help enthusiasts and researchers, the guide cites the very latest books and periodical literature in its two extensive bibliographies. It also lists aviation museums, airplane magazines, and sources of photographs.
