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Author : Martyn Chorlton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859791816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Aerodromes of World War I written by Martyn Chorlton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas C. Selig
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625850883
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Chicago Airfields written by Nicholas C. Selig and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Selig excavates the highways to the sky that have been covered up by urban sprawl or dissolved by neglect. More than a guide to landing strips that have had startling second lives as shopping malls or retirement homes, he uncovers the excitement of the early days of air travel, when a man might cling to his job as a lavatory truck driver for a closer peek at aviation. In this follow-up to "Lost Airports of Chicago," discover how a tractor swap gave birth to Clow International Airport and revel in the daredevil exploits of puddle-jumper pilots over the wide-open spaces of Harlem Avenue.
Author : Kees Rijken
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473838363
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Operation Oyster World War II's Forgotten Raid written by Kees Rijken and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Oyster was carried out on the 6th December, 1942 by 2 Group RAF. Considered to be a notable success for the allies, it cost the Germans an estimated six months of lost production time at a critical point in the conflict. It is arguable, according to the authors, that the operation was in fact rather more significant than Operation Chastise, the Dambuster raid, while accepting that was a remarkable feat of arms. Operation Oyster struck at the very heart of what Churchill termed 'the wizard war' against German radio navigational technology by attacking a central hub of activity; the Philips Radio Works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The development of electronics in WWII was the most significant technical aspect of weaponry over the course of the conflict. On both sides, there were great advances in radar and communications which, at that time, depended on the wide- scale use of high frequency radio valves few companies had the technology to produce these, but the leading one in Europe was Philips in Eindhoven. Thus it was determined that Philips was the most important target. Ninety-three allied aircraft took part and a total of fourteen were lost. But the result in terms of damages to the enemy was considerable, hindering the German war effort significantly and consequently aiding the allies. Despite these facts however, the story of the raid has been underreported, and the efforts of the aircrew who took part have been little recognized. By comparison, the Dambuster raid which came six months later has entered into folklore. Here, for the first time, the overlooked Oyster raid is afforded the attention it deserves.
Author : Sue Mann
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1909291811
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)
Download or read book St Albans written by Sue Mann and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the men who left to fight in the First World War but what was life really like for those left behind on the Home Front? A bustling market town profoundly touched by the war, St Albans is the perfect place of which to ask this question, thanks in part to the survival of exceptionally rich archives of records from the period. This book explores the immediate challenges the townspeople faced during the war as well as the longer-term effects on the city. When the war finally ended, could life ever return to 'normal' as some 3,000 soldiers returned home?
Author : Charles R. G. Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781555248
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Rare Birds written by Charles R. G. Bain and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of rare airplanes used by Allied and Axis nations during World War II, including plane specifications and photographs.
Author : Thomas E. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 158979964X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Heroes of World War II written by Thomas E. Simmons and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.
Author : Douglas E. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 110542071X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book BuNos! Disposition of World War II USN, USMC and USCG Aircraft Listed by Bureau Number written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snapshot in time. After thousands of hours of research and data entry over a 35-year period, the information on the disposition of some 25,000 US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard aircraft needs to be published. These aircraft mainly represent those built and lost during World War II - between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945 - but this book also contains aircraft built before WWII that were lost during WWII or disposed of after WWII (lost during the Korean War, lost on training exercises, sold to private investors, currently located in museums and even some still proudly sitting as "gate guards" across the US, etc.).
Author : Paul Bingley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445694824
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Essex: A Hidden Aviation History written by Paul Bingley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating aviation history of Essex, with a number of rare and previously unpublished photographs.
Author : Douglas E. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138788879X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)
Download or read book VPNavy! USN, USMC, USCG and NATS Patrol Aircraft Lost or Damaged During World War II Ð Listed by Bureau Number written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of hours of research have culminated in this First Edition of U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard and Naval Air Transport Service patrol aircraft lost or damaged during World War II. Within these pages can be found more than 2,200 patrol aircraft in Bureau Number (BuNo) sequence; the majority of the aircraft complete with their stories of how they were lost or damaged or simply Struck Off Charge (SOC) and removed from the NavyÍs inventory. Of interest to the reader may be the alphabetical Index to the 7,600+ names of Officers, aircrewmen and others mentioned in the book.
Author : KS Nair
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353570689
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Few; The Indian Air Force in World War II written by KS Nair and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Few is the first contemporary attempt to produce a historical narrative of the nation's contribution, specifically to the Air Force component, of World War II, which was an important part of our journey to Independence and national identity. Close to three million Indians served in uniform during the War. And yet, the Indian chapter of this globe-straddling story, reverberations of which still echo today, are barely known - a symptom of which was the recent controversy over the absence of Indians in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk. This book brings to light some of the lost stories of Indian aviators who built the very foundations of human and physical infrastructure for what is now the world's fourth largest air force. It benefits from several first-person interviews with some of the last Indian survivors of World War II, enabling a level of fidelity that is quite rare among Indian histories.
Author : Gregory A. Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101032340
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten 500 written by Gregory A. Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia... During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers while they waited for rescue, and in 1944, Operation Halyard was born. The risks were incredible. The starving Americans in Yugoslavia had to construct a landing strip large enough for C-47 cargo planes—without tools, without alerting the Germans, and without endangering the villagers. And the cargo planes had to make it through enemy airspace and back—without getting shot down themselves. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time ever. The Forgotten 500 is the gripping, behind-the-scenes look at the greatest escape of World War II. “Amazing [and] riveting.”—James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers
Author : Nicholas C. Selig
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238618
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Lost Airports of Chicago written by Nicholas C. Selig and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To book a ride on the "World's Shortest Airline" or learn aerial stunts from the redheaded widow of Lawrence Avenue, you've got to go through the airports buried beneath the housing developments and shopping malls of Chicagoland. Many of these airports sprang up after World War I, when training killed more pilots than combat, and the aviation pioneers who developed Chicago's flying fields played a critical role in getting the nation ready to dare the skies in World War II. Author Nick Selig has rolled wheels on his fair share of Chicago's landing strips but faces an entirely new challenge in touching down in places being swallowed by a city and forgotten by history.
Author : Douglas E. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387491938
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)
Download or read book VPNavy! USN, USMC, USCG and NATS Patrol Aircraft Lost or Damaged During World War II written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of hours of research have culminated in this First Edition of U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard and Naval Air Transport Service patrol aircraft lost or damaged during World War II. Within these 600+ pages can be found more than 2,200 patrol aircraft across nearly 300 squadron designations; the majority of the aircraft complete with their stories of how they were lost or damaged or simply Struck Off Charge (SOC) and removed from the Navy's inventory. Of interest to the reader may be the alphabetical Index to the 7,600+ names of Officers, aircrewmen and others mentioned in the book.
Author : Douglas E. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365470636
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (654 download)
Download or read book U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and MATS Aircraft Lost During the Korean War: 2017 Edition written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War was the first war in which jet aircraft played a central role. For the initial months of the war, the F9F Panther and other jets dominated North Korea's prop-driven air force and later held their own against the MiGs. Within these pages are listed more than 1,140 U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and Military Air Transport Service (MATS) aircraft lost during the Korean War. These aircraft were spread across 19 different ships, 126 different squadrons, by 12 aircraft manufacturers building nearly 60 different types and variants to fly into war. The information on dates lost, aircraft type and manufacturer, Bureau Numbers, ship or base assigned, squadron attached, and fate of the pilot and crew, are here. In this 2017 Edition, an alphabetized index of nearly 1,300 names of pilots and crewmembers listed in the book has been added.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428916075
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Air Service in World War I, Volume IV: Postwar Review written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Armistice in 1918, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, directed that a record be made of lessons learned during the war. This information, he believed, was needed for planning the Air Service of the future. The reports prepared by commanders, pilots, observers, and other members of the various Air Service units in response to General Patrick's directive are of considerable historical interest for the information they contain about the Air Service and its employment at the front. A select group of the reports on lessons learned make up Part 1 of this volume of World War I documents on U.S. military aviation. Part II is devoted to a report on the effects of Allied bombing in World War I. This long-forgotten document, the result of a post-war investigation by the Air Intelligence Section of General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, is the counterpart of the well-known United States Strategic Bombing Survey of World War II.
Author : Adam Zamoyski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (569 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Few written by Adam Zamoyski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Kulikov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780960611
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Russian Aces of World War 1 written by Victor Kulikov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots nevertheless gave a good account of themselves. Indeed, during three years of war they claimed more than 200 Austro-Hungarian and German aircraft shot down, creating 13 aces – these elite aviators accounted for around half of the victories claimed on the Eastern Front. Pilots flew a variety of fighter types, with French Nieuport scouts and SPAD VIIs proving to be the most popular, and effective, aeroplanes to see service on this front. The exploits of these aces are detailed here, with information based on material newly sourced by the author from Russian military and private archives. Many previously unpublished photographs are used to illustrate this book, supported by full-colour profiles that reveal how striking some of the aces' fighters were in this often-forgotten theatre of World War 1.
