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Author : Peter L. Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780837207100
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Silent Flight written by Peter L. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys just learning to fly glider planes use their new skill to help rescue a crashed pilot from the mountains.
Author : Tarak Ghosh
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 374871954X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (487 download)
Download or read book SILENT COCKPIT written by Tarak Ghosh and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the secrets of of the nine-year-old mystery - Flight MH 370 and discover the truth behind its disappearance. This book reveals the answers to the three interrogative words – 'Who', 'Why', and 'Where' – that left millions of people mystified. By reading this book, you will gain a deeper understanding of the tragic events, uncover hidden motives and potential perpetrators, and find out what could have happened to the 239 people on board. It also provides implications of this tragedy and its impact on aviation safety. This book includes: - A detailed analysis of the aircraft and its systems - Exclusive interviews with key people involved in the investigation - An exploration of possible motives behind the disappearance of Flight MH 370 - A deeper understanding of the events that unfolded on the day of the tragedy - Uncovering of hidden motives and potential perpetrators of the possible hijacking - Learning what could have possibly happened to the aircraft and the 239 people on board
Author : Gary A. Best
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Silent Invaders written by Gary A. Best and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The guys would come into the glider like a bunch of piss-ants, skittering around, real cocky like. But they settled down in the glider. Some got airsick and they began thinking about what was ahead. One time we were fired on just as we were landing and exiting the glider and one of the boys was hit. His friends dragged him to cover beneath a tree. He looked up at me and said, “Take my rifle, I’m dying.” I reached down and took his weapon, and he slumped back and died. That was pretty tough...’ Combat gliders were called by some as ‘Death Crates’, ‘Purple Heart Boxes’, ‘Flying Coffins’ and ‘Tow Targets’. They were not pretty and had no graceful lines. Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose and a sloping Neanderthal forehead. Their wings looked like the heavily-starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a canvas-covered frame. Twice the length of the body, these wings were eighty-four feet in length, 70 per cent as long as the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. They could not become airborne, let alone fly, unless assisted by an engine-powered tow plane. And for those riding in the back, it was like flying ‘through the gates of hell’. The men who were trained and assigned to guide gliders into battle were said to be the only pilots who had no motors, armament, parachutes and no second chances. Like the aircraft they commanded, they were called inglorious names such as The Bastards Nobody Wanted, Glider Gladiators in Wooden Chariots; Hybrid Jackasses and Glory Boys. Beautifully written, profoundly illustrated and researched, Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the Second World War is a work that is dedicated to those brave men under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler’s radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini. Illustrations: 80 black-and-white photographs
Author : Reynel Martinez
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307434583
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Six Silent Men written by Reynel Martinez and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13] In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step, one small mistake by one man could mean sudden death for all. Author Reynel Martinez, himself a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes us into the lives and battles of the extraordinary men for whom the brotherhood of war was and is an ever-present reality: the courage, the sacrifice, the sense of loss when one of your own dies. In the hills, valleys, and triple-canopy jungles, the ambushes, firefights, and copter crashes, LRRPs were among the best and bravest to fight in Vietnam.
Author : Manley Rutherford Irwin
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761839187
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Silent Strategists written by Manley Rutherford Irwin and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby exercised unusual foresight in preparing the navy for a war against Japan. This revised edition adds new evidence from original documents provides invaluable details and insights into the lasting legacy of the Harding administration.
Author : D J Thorp
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752466860
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Silent Listener written by D J Thorp and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 2 April 1982 Argentina launched Operation Rosario, the invasion of the Falklands. The British, caught off guard, responded with Operation Corporate. Deployed alongside the rest of the British Army was a small specialist intelligence unit, whose very existence was unknown to many commanders and whose activities were cloaked in the Official Secrets Act. Trained during the years of the Cold War, the OC of the unit, D J Thorp, was tasked with providing electronic warfare support - interception of Argentinian electronic and radio signals - allowing the British to be in real time receipt of enemy plans long before execution. He personally briefed Col H Jones before the Battle of Goose Green. For the first time in print, The Silent Listener confirms the existence and role of the Special Task Detachment during Operation Coroporate and provides details of the deployment and operational role of a dedicated ground based electronic warfare (EW) weapons facility. It also details the development of electronic warfare during the Cold War period, including the establishment of a communications intercept site on East Island following the cessation of hostilities in the Falklands, and D J Thorp's top secret role in the investigation into the sinking of ARA General Belgrano.
Author : Sherri Greene Ottis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147980
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Silent Heroes written by Sherri Greene Ottis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crewmembers, supplied with "escape kits," knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated 12,000 French civilians helped make this possible. More than 5,000 airmen, many of them American, successfully traveled along escape lines organized much like those of the U.S. Underground Railroad, using secret codes and stopping in safe houses. If caught, they risked internment in a POW camp. But the French, Belgian, and Dutch civilians who aided them risked torture and even death. Sherri Ottis writes candidly about the pilots and crewmen who walked out of occupied Europe, as well as the British intelligence agency in charge of Escape and Evasion. But her main focus is on the helpers, those patriots who have been all but ignored in English-language books and journals. To research their stories, Ottis hiked the Pyrenees and interviewed many of the survivors. She tells of the extreme difficulty they had in avoiding Nazi infiltration by double agents; of their creativity in hiding evaders in their homes, sometimes in the midst of unexpected searches; of their generosity in sharing their meager food supplies during wartime; and of their unflagging spirit and courage in the face of a war fought on a very personal level.
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MARK A. SOMMER, JR.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365036588
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)
Download or read book ALWAYS ANOTHER DAWN: SILENT WEAPONS FOR A QUIET WAR written by MARK A. SOMMER, JR. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While flying the Mach Loop, Michael breaks through Mace's Project Looking Glass and finally discovers his ultimate reality. He stretched the multiple timelines to their razor edge, but was it enough to come through to the other side of her reality? She was there, with him, in that other place --- always waiting for him to return.
Author : Tim Lynch
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844157369
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Silent Skies written by Tim Lynch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theatre of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.
Author : Gerard M. Devlin
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Silent Wings written by Gerard M. Devlin and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1985 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Duran
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480930210
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Silent Heroes written by Joe Duran and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Heroes: One Soldier’s Story By Joe Duran Lou Duarte is in the last place he wants to be: Vietnam. Nothing could have prepared this twenty-one-year-old man from California for the heat, the rain, the country—and the death the war brings. Silent Heroes: One Soldier’s Story follows one individual through his time in combat, showing both the horrific consequences and the strong friendships born out of the conflict. As Lou attempts to adapt to the unimaginable, he will learn how to fight for his country and his life and, in the process, he will meet more than one man destined to become a silent hero.
Author : Tom Young
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 0425250288
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Silent Enemy written by Tom Young and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged.
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B.J. BRYAN
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493118781
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book ESCAPE WITH A SILENT ROAR written by B.J. BRYAN and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape With a Silent Roar is the heroic trilogy of three World War II Pilots. Each story is different . Each story telling a tale of bravery in the heat of air combat. It is filled with emotion and intrigue. It is told straight from the men who lived it. As they tell their stories you will feel everything they did, experience everything they experienced as the young fighting men who helped keep freedom alive.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Flying Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore P. Savas
Publisher : Savas Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1940669006
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Silent Hunters written by Theodore P. Savas and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling true stories of six little-known U-boat commanders and their dramatic WWII careers. When World War II erupted across Europe in 1939, Germany knew it couldn’t hope to compete with the Royal Navy in a head-to-head naval war. Left with no viable alternatives, the U-Bootwaffe wagered everything on the submarine in a desperate attempt to sink more tonnage than the Allies could construct. Some of these “silent hunters” who slipped out of their shelters along Europe's shores to stalk their prey have enjoyed considerable recognition in the years since. While most aspects of the bitter struggle have been told and retold from both the Axis and Allied points of view, the careers of some highly effective U-boat commanders have languished in undeserved obscurity. The profiles of six such commanders are presented in this collection of essays. They include Englebert Endrass, whose spectacular career before being lost off the coast of Gibraltar is described here by his best friend and fellow ace Enrich Topp, who wrote this while on his fifteenth War Patrol; Karl-Friedrich Merten, who was ranked among the war’s top tonnage aces; Ralph Kapitsky, whose U-615 suicidal surface-to-air battle in the Caribbean allowed many of his fellow submariners to escape into the Atlantic; Fritz Guggenberger, who sank an aircraft carrier and organized the biggest POW escape attempt in American history; Victor Oehrn, a former staff officer of Karl Dönitz's; and Heinz Eck, who was executed by the British. Includes photographs
