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Station 115 Shipdham

Author : Peter Bodle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781554951
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Station 115 Shipdham written by Peter Bodle and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Station 115-Shipdham is the unique story of 600 acres of Norfolk countryside in the center of the agricultural heartland of East Anglia. It was turned into a major Second World War airfield in ultra-quick order shortly after the start of hostilities in the early 1940s. Built on prime arable and dairy farmland, it is a mere 10 minutes flying time from the city of Norwich, between the Mid-Norfolk Market towns of Dereham and Watton. Station 115-Shipdham covers the gestation of the airfield from open arable farmland through the construction phase to its commissioning as a USAAF Heavy Bomber base in the front line of the greatest conflict that the world has ever seen. It then tracks the activities of the 44th Bomb Group (The Flying Eightballs) at the airfield during the latter stages of the War in some detail. It covers this period of the involvement of the USAAF 8the Air Force from a more personal and human view than many of the excellent books written on the more technical aspect of the war. It then moves on to describe the airfield s reversion to farmland in the 50s, 60 s and 70. Following this quieter period of its life it then traces the re-emergence of the airfield into an operating base for an air-taxi service and then to its activation as a crop spraying operation for the local intensive cereal growing industry. In the mid nineteen-eighties it became home to Arrow Air Centre, a very successful flight training school and a busy light aircraft maintenance base. Finally it evolved into a modern day General Aviation airfield providing a home for light aircraft used for recreation by keen amateur from the Norfolk area. It also became the center of attention for the visits from the Veterans of the 44th Bomb Group Veterans Association. It houses a sizable three room museum, memorial garden and engraved granite memorial that honors the men who served at the station during the war. Several chapters of the book contain the personal reminiscences of the people involved with the airfield during its various stages of evolution."

2nd Air Division Air Force USAAF 1942-45

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473812585
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book 2nd Air Division Air Force USAAF 1942-45 written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area—in this case Norfolk and Suffolk. The Second Air Division's first bombing mission was flown on November 7, 1942; the last on April 25, 1945. A total of 95, 948 sorties were flown in 493 operational missions by the division's B-24s, dropping 199,883 tons of bombs. Targets attacked ranged from Norway in the north, as far east as Poland and Romania, while several Mediterranean countries were reached from temporary bases in North Africa. Six 2nd Air Division groups received special presidential citations for outstanding actions and five airmen received the Medal of Honor (highest US award for bravery), four posthumously. In combat the 2nd Air Division gunners claimed 1,079 enemy fighters destroyed against losses of 1,458 B-24s missing in action and many others lost in accidents. This book looks at the history and personalities associated with each base, what remains today and explores the favourite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would go.

2nd Air Division Air Force USAAF 1942-45

Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844155471
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book 2nd Air Division Air Force USAAF 1942-45 written by Martin Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Norfolk and Suffolk. The Second Air Division's first bombing mission was flown on November 7, 1942; the last on April 25, 1945. A total of 95, 948 sorties were flown in 493 operational missions by the division's B-24s, dropping 199,883 tons of bombs. Targets attacked ranged from Norway in the north, as far east as Poland and Romania, while several Mediterranean countries were reached from temporary bases in North Africa. Six 2nd Air Division groups received special presidential citations for outstanding actions and five airmen received the Medal of Honor (highest US award for bravery), four posthumously. In combat the 2nd Air Division gunners claimed 1,079 enemy fighters destroyed against losses of 1,458 B-24s missing in action and many others lost in accidents. This book looks at the history and personalities associated with each base, what remains today and explores the favourite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would go.

Airfields Of 8th

Author : Roger Freeman
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 1399076868
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Airfields Of 8th written by Roger Freeman and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 1978-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and moldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavors of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men. For such they are.

RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK During the Second World War

Author : Geoff Mills
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1069 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK During the Second World War written by Geoff Mills and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. During a seven year period 500 airfields were constructed to serve the needs first of the RAF and later the USAAF as they carried the war to German-occupied Europe. The airfields that were constructed took many different forms from training airfields and Advanced Landing Grounds to grass fighter airstrips and vast complexes used to accommodate heavy bombers. This book charts the history of each Second World War airfield in and around the UK providing a unique insight in to the construction, operational life and post-war history of each airfield. Alongside detailing the history of each airfield, this work comprehensively records the details of each unit that operated from airfields around the UK. The information provided in this meticulously researched book is supported by a wealth of 690 photographs providing an illustration into the life of each wartime station.

Aviation Landmarks - Norfolk and Suffolk

Author : Peter B. Gunn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750986557
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Aviation Landmarks - Norfolk and Suffolk written by Peter B. Gunn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk and Suffolk are bursting with aviation heritage, having played key roles in military aviation through the two world wars and beyond. This new edition of Aviation Landmarks– Norfolk and Suffolk presents an updated and revised account of aviation heritage and history through the two world wars right up to the present day. Nearly 70 airfields are covered, along with many lesser-known landmarks including decoy airfields, former radar stations, country houses, buildings, local heritage collections, pubs, village signs and much else. With illustrations, OS grid references and an index this reference guide to the two counties, both in the air and on the ground, will delight interested locals and aviation enthusiasts alike.

Flight of the Forgotten

Author : Mark Vance
Publisher : Mark Vance via PublishDrive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Forgotten written by Mark Vance and published by Mark Vance via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight of the Forgotten is the true story of one of the most closely-guarded American military secrets of all time. It is intriguing, controversial and thought-provoking. It traverses 50 years, two generations, and the realities of our physical world. Flight of the Forgotten represents a 50 year-old aviation mystery, officially "forgotten" by the United States Government.

The USAAF in Suffolk

Author : Roy Brazier
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The USAAF in Suffolk written by Roy Brazier and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Soar with the Eagles

Author : Sidney Bolick
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1553692241
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book To Soar with the Eagles written by Sidney Bolick and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Soar With The Eagles is the sequel to the author's first book, Mama's Boarding House, picking up where Mama's Boarding House leaves off. His new book follows his training as a pilot in the Royal canadian Air Force in 1941, and his World war II service in Europe with both the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Eighth Air Force from 1942 through 1944. Returning to the United States in November of 1944, after having been shot down on a bombing mission over Germany, being interned in Switzerland and escaping from there, he ends the war in the Air Transport Command, flying four-engine transport planes on the run from California to Hawaii and the Central Pacific Islands. This book is not about heroes, although there are certainly some heroes in it. Rather, it is about ordinary young men like the author, who, when thrust into the maelstrom of war, somehow found the courage and fortitude to face and overcome the dangers and challengess that confronted them. Students of World war II, and those simply curious about it, will find that it was not all fighting and bloodshed. For every minute spent in actual combat, there were hours and days of training and preparation. Some of the most interesting parts of this book are the author's descriptions of his training, from learning to march in step, to preparing for his first solo flight in a little Tigermoth biplane. Reading almost like a diary, To Soar With The Eagles, follows the author's footsteps from the afteerneoon in June of 1941 when he steps down from the Greyhound Bus in Ottawa, Canada, until he is discharged from thre United States Air Force in nineteen forty-six - an old veteran at the age of twenty-two.

Army Fire Fighting

Author : Leroy Allen Ward
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468523686
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Army Fire Fighting written by Leroy Allen Ward and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army Firefighting details the history of this low-density military occupational specialty which represents a small section of the Corps of Engineers. Beginning with the Civil War through present day, this historical perspective contains the lineage and history of Army fire fighting units and includes unit rosters, activations and deactivations, deployment locations and description of some of the major fires fought. The book also contains photographs of Army fire fighters during World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm and the War on Terrorism. Using interviews, correspondence and diaries, as well as archived material, Leroy Allen Ward tells the remarkable story of the Army's Engineer Firefighters.

The 44th Bomb Group in World War II

Author : Ron Mackay
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The 44th Bomb Group in World War II written by Ron Mackay and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 44th Bomb Group, which flew the B-24 Liberator, was the "pioneer" unit for what evolved from the "Mighty Eighth's" 2nd Bomb Wing into a full-scale Bomb (and later Air) Division. The Group amassed an impressive 343 missions and won two Distinguished Unit Citations between November 1942 and April 1945, dropping nearly 19,000 tons of ordnance in the process including the legendary August 1943 Ploesti mission. These statistics were achieved at a material cost of around 200 aircraft, and a human cost of some 2,000 airmen MIA, as the 8th USAAF focused its strategic bombing campaign in the face of determined Luftwaffe opposition.

Flypast

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flypast written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aviation News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 1,000 Day Battle

Author : James Hoseason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The 1,000 Day Battle written by James Hoseason and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated account of operations in Europe of the 8th Air Force's 2nd Air Division -- 1942-1945 -- including particularly its 448th Bomb Group and the other B-21 units based in East Anglia's Waveney Valley"--Cover.

American Aviation Historical Society Journal

Author : American Aviation Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Aviation Historical Society Journal written by American Aviation Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AAHS Journal

Author : American Aviation Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book AAHS Journal written by American Aviation Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bombs Away!

Author : John R. Bruning
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610602595
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Bombs Away! written by John R. Bruning and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-05-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombs Away! covers strategic bombing in Europe during World War II, that is, all aerial bombardment of a strategic nature which took place between 1939 and 1945. In addition to American (U.S. Army Air Forces) and British (RAF Bomber Command) strategic aerial campaigns against Germany, this book covers German use of strategic bombing during the Nazi’s conquest of Europe: the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, and the V 1 and V 2, where the Luftwaffe targeted Warsaw and Rotterdam (known as the Rotterdam Blitz). In addition, the book covers the blitzes against London and the bombing of other British industrial and port cities, such as Birmingham, Liverpool, Southampton, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast, Cardiff, and Coventry bombed during the Battle of Britain. The twin Allied campaigns against Germany—the USAAF by day, the RAF by night—built up into massive bombing of German industrial areas, notably the Ruhr, followed by attacks directly on cities such as Hamburg, Kassel, Pforzheim, Mainz, Cologne, Bremen, Essen, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Dortmund, Frankfurt, and the still controversial fire-bombing of Hamburg and Dresden. In addition to obvious targets like aircraft and tank manufacturers, ball bearing factories and plants that manufactured abrasives and grinding wheels were high priority targets. Petroleum refineries were a key target with USAAF aircraft based in North Africa and later Italy, bombing the massive refinery complexes in and around Ploesti, Romania, until August 1944 when the Soviet Red Army captured the area. Other missions included industrial targets in southern Germany like Regensburg and Schweinfurt. Missions to the Nazi capital, Berlin, started in 1940 and continued through March 1945. Throughout the war there were 314 air raids on Berlin. All of this is covered in detail with authoritative text and hundreds of archival photographs, many rare or never before published.