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Author : James Dickey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book History of 418th. Night Fighter Squadron written by James Dickey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book History of the 418th Night Fighter Squadron written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles McEwen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book 422nd Night Fighter Squadron written by Charles McEwen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James T. Controvich
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810850101
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book United States Air Force and Its Antecedents written by James T. Controvich and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.
Author : Charles McEwen (Jr.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book 422nd Night Fighter Squadron written by Charles McEwen (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Clayton
Publisher : Mention the War Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781911255383
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Gone the Dark Night written by Graham Clayton and published by Mention the War Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008 Graham Clayton published Last Stand in Singapore: The Story of 488 Squadron RNZAF. After the fall of Singapore, the squadron was disbanded, then subsequently reformed in the UK in June 1942 as an RAF unit, 488 (New Zealand) Squadron. Its role was to take on the German Luftwaffe in the night skies over the UK and Europe. Gone the Dark Night is the long-awaited sequel and completes the wartime history of 488 Squadron.The aircraft and equipment were rudimentary, and a huge effort was made to develop night fighting defences that might defeat the Luftwaffe bombers in the air after dark over the UK and Europe. Success was to be a long time in coming. Initially equipped with the Bristol Beaufighter, the unit was later supplied with the night fighter variant of the iconic de Havilland Mosquito. The crews, mostly young New Zealanders, were at the forefront of a struggle against seemingly impossible odds. From the early days they struggled to survive not only enemy attacks but also the dangers of flying at night in adverse weather conditions. At the same time, they had to become proficiency with new technology that seemed to change on a weekly basis. Teamwork was vital to the success of each operation and to ensure their own survival in the night skies. This was an occupation fraught with continuous danger; the hunter could very quickly become the hunted, and the possibility of being shot down by your own side was also very real. These young men showed a determination that ultimately gained them success and victory in Europe. Their pathway to victory was paved with a life and death struggle to gain ascendancy over a skilful and wily enemy, and much personal tragedy was encountered on the way. After half a century after they played such a large part in defeating the Luftwaffe menace, their heroism is still an example to us all.
Author : Charles McEwen
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Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book 422 Night Fighter Squadron written by Charles McEwen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony W. Pieper
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Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An Informal History of the 414th Night Fighter Squadron written by Anthony W. Pieper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Mike Mahon
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Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Nighthawk! written by Mike Mahon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Halls
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Flying Blind written by Elizabeth Halls and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Marine Corps. Night Fighter Squadron 542
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book U. S. Marine Night Fighter Squadron VMF (N) 542, WWII Directory written by United States. Marine Corps. Night Fighter Squadron 542 and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bas Kreuger
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Kais written by Bas Kreuger and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Thursday 27 July 1944 a B-25 bomber of the 418th Night Fighter Squadron is on a routine mission over the waters surrounding New Guinea near the Birds Head Peninsula. The crew sights a Japanese schooner and start their attack run, flying low and fast over the water. The attack succeeds but the bomber is hit and it's pilot, 2Lt Ira M. Barnett, cannot fly it back to base. He decides on a crash landing in a remote swamp area, some 300 miles behind enemy lines. Barnett puts the plane down safely, air gunner Harold "Chief" Tantaquidgeon takes over command in the swamp. Tom Wright, navigator, wrote: "At the second attempt he slid over the water and grass and we heard tsching, tsching, bushes hitting the wings. Suddenly the plane swung to the left, breaking in two just behind the bomb bay. Chief and Pete were thrown out. The wing had hit a tree, too thick to break"A rescue team, led by Dutch 2nd Lieutenant Louis Rapmund and Australian Army Captain 'Mac' Gillespie sets out from the island of Biak to save the crew. Flown in by Catalina flying boat, river Kais is their only way in and out of this green hell of jungle and swamp. For three weeks their small group of Allied soldiers use the Kais to fight both their human enemy and nature to find the crew and bring them back to safety. This is an extraordinary story of survival and heroism of Allied soldiers and air men; American, Australian, Dutch and Indonesian, supported by the local Papua's.In 2019 the author followed in the footsteps of the rescue team, trying to find the wreck of the bomber. With a group of five he travelled up the Kais river and into the swamp. It resulted in an unexpected meeting.
Author : Ken Dooley
Publisher : PiKen Production
ISBN 13 : 0578165422
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Relentless Pursuit written by Ken Dooley and published by PiKen Production. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, the United States was pathetically unprepared for war. The battle fleet intended to keep the Pacific Ocean an American lake lay in smoking ruins at Pearl Harbor. Ironically, the devastating Japanese surprise attack revealed the path to victory: above the sea, not on it. At the time, U.S. air power was inferior even to our now-crippled sea power. Somehow thousands of men, many of them too young to vote, were selected and trained to defeat an enemy who flew faster, more maneuverable airplanes. They fought under General George C. Kenney who commanded “The Forgotten Fifth Air Force,” a name resulting from the priority assigned to the war in Europe. Even today, books focusing on the European war far outnumber those devoted to the Pacific war. This book is about one group of men, the 39th Fighter Squadron of the Fifth Air Force. Rushed through training and flying planes greatly inferior to those flown by experienced Japanese pilots, they held their own with raw courage, determination and unflinching patriotism. As they received better airplanes, they pushed the Japanese back, but always at terrible cost. It took great courage to climb into those cockpits. Pilots lost over the sea and jungles were rarely found. Those captured by the Japanese were routinely tortured and beheaded. The war ended, but searing questions remained. Would justice ever be served for those pilots executed by the enemy? Until now that question was never fully addressed. With this book we explore the air war, crimes, investigations and punishments.
Author : Robin L. Rielly
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149911
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships written by Robin L. Rielly and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2008-09-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of ferocious air and naval combat during the WWII Battle of Okinawa—drawn from primary sources and survivor interviews. This is the story of an overlooked yet significant aerial and naval battle during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945. While losses to America’s main fleet are well recorded, less well known is the terrific battle waged on the radar picket line, the fleet’s outer defense against Japanese marauders. Weaving together the experiences of the ships and their crews—drawn from ship and aircraft action reports, ship logs, and personal interviews—historian Robin L. Reilly recounts one of the most ferocious air and naval battles in history. The US fleet—and its accompanying airpower—was so massive that the Japanese could only rely on suicide attacks to inflict critical damage. Of the 206 ships that served on radar picket duty, twenty-nine percent were sunk or damaged by Japanese air attacks, making theirs the most hazardous naval surface duty in World War II. The great losses were largely due to relentless kamikaze attacks, but also resulted from the improper use of support gunboats, failure to establish land-based radar at the earliest possible time, the assignment of ships ill-equipped for picket duty, and, as time went on, crew fatigue. US air cover during the battle is also described in full, as squadrons dashed from their carriers and land bases to intercept the Japanese swarms, resulting in constant melees over the fleet.
Author : United States. USAF Historical Division
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Combat Squadrons of the Air Force; World War II. written by United States. USAF Historical Division and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of squadron histories has been prepared by the USAF Historical Division to complement the Division's book, Air Force Combat Units of World War II. The 1,226 units covered by this volume are the combat (tactical) squadrons that were active between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945. Each squadron is traced from its beginning through 5 March 1963, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the 1st Aero (later Bombardment) Squadron, the first Army unit to be equipped with aircraft for tactical operations. For each squadron there is a statement of the official lineage and data on the unit's assignments, stations, aircraft and missiles, operations, service streamers, campaign participation, decorations, and emblem.
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Fighters and Bombers of World War II written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
