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Blood and Fears

Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681773791
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Fears written by Kevin Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February—targeting German aircraft production plants—to bringing the Luftwaffe to battle over Berlin, the combined US Air Force-Royal Air Force forces’ round-the clock campaign bottled up the German army in Normandy.In this authoritative history, Kevin Wilson reveals the blood and heroism of the 8th Air Force. At the same time, he opens up the lives of the Women's Army Corps and Red Cross girls who served in England with them and feared for the men in the skies, and he hasn't flinched from recounting the devastation of bombing or the testimony of shocked German civilians.Drawing on first-hand accounts from diaries, letters, and his personal audio recordings, the author has brought to life the ebullient Americans' interaction with their British counterparts, unveiling stories of humanity and heartbreak. Thanks to America's bomber boys and girls, the tide of World War II shifted forever.

Bombers of World War II

Author : Nancy Robinson Masters
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781560655329
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Bombers of World War II written by Nancy Robinson Masters and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the different kinds of bombers used during World War Two, their capabilities, the kinds of missions on which they were sent, and any special characteristics. Also discusses what some of the airplanes were used for after World War 2.

Bomber Pilot

Author : Philip Ardery
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081314342X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Bomber Pilot written by Philip Ardery and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery's plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler's Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This vivid firsthand account, available now for the first time in paper, records one man's experience of World War II air warfare. Throughout, Ardery testifies to the horror of world war as he describes his fear, his longing for home, and his grief for fallen comrades. Bomber Pilot is a moving contribution to American history.

Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production

Author : Joshua Stoff
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048627618X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production written by Joshua Stoff and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-12-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 250 rare photographs depict one of the greatest industrial feats of all time: America's massive production of World War II fighters and bombers. An introduction and captions outline the history.

Bomber Command

Author : Jeffrey L Ethell
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785830085
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bomber Command written by Jeffrey L Ethell and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bomber Command was the heart of the US Army Air Force's operations against Nazi Germany in World War II. At its peak, the USAAF boasted 2,411,294 men and women in uniform with 230,000 aircraft flown by 193,440 pilots. And statistically, there was no more dangerous place to be in World War II than in Germany. This is the story of the USAAF in the European and Mediterranean Theatres during World War II. This book relives the excitement of the operations in first-person accounts and anecdotes and with color photograpy of the events.

Wings of Judgment

Author : Ronald Schaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019505640X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Wings of Judgment written by Ronald Schaffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-09-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disturbing and perceptive study of the strategy, outcome, and choices behind the American bombing policies of World War II. The author analyses the explanations and moral arguments used by America's military leaders to justify the attacks on Dresden, Berlin, and Hiroshima.

Bomber Missions

Author : G. E. Patrick Murray
Publisher : Friedman/Fairfax Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781586630812
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Bomber Missions written by G. E. Patrick Murray and published by Friedman/Fairfax Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planes on the ground, being readied for the fight. Others in mid-battle, soaring above smoke-and-fire filled targets or engaging in skirmishes with nearby enemy pilots. And still more, returning from the fray, their crews blessedly still alive. 75 breathtaking paintings capture in vivid detail the drama and action of air combat in World War II--the war that launched a new era in military history with its strategic use of bombers. The contributors include many of today's most noted historical artists, including Robert Bailey, Stan Stokes, Robert Taylor, Roy Grinnell, and Jim Dietz. Extensive captions offer insight into each scene, with information on the pilot, crew, and unit, while archival photographs of these brave soldiers of the air breathe life into each scene--Publisher.

Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War II

Author : Barrett Tillman
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612515436
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War II written by Barrett Tillman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly known as the Douglas Dauntless, the U.S. Navy's SBD dive bomber was well named. Though considered obsolete at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dauntless turned the tide of war in the Pacific with the destruction of four Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway, making its mark in aviation history for sinking more enemy carriers than any other aircraft. Still in service at war's end, the Dauntless was the only U.S. carrier aircraft in operation from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day. The Dauntless was the only American Navy aircraft to fly in al five of the naval engagements fought exclusively by aircraft carriers and was credited with sinking the first Japanese fleet submarine and dropping the first bombs on Japanese-occupied soil during the war. The SBD was also active in the Atlantic, sinking Vichy French shipping at Casablanca and German vessels in Scandinavian waters. In between his authoritative accounts of these missions, Barrett Tillman tells the rousing story of the men who took the "slow but deadly" Dauntless into combat, loving her for her ruggedness and dependability while wishing for more speed and firepower. Among the people he describes is the pilot who nearly single-handedly knocked out a Japanese carrier and died in the process, and SBD squadron that flew unexpectedly into the Pearl Harbor attack. Filled with fascinating photographs, this book was widely acclaimed in 1976 when first published and is now available for the first time in paperback.

The Bomber Mafia

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316296937
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.

The Bombers and the Bombed

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126245
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Bombers and the Bombed written by Richard Overy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An essential part of the literature of World War II.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post From acclaimed World War II historian Richard Overy comes this startling new history of the controversial Allied bombing war against Germany and German-occupied Europe. In the fullest account yet of the campaign and its consequences, Overy assesses not just the bombing strategies and pattern of operations, but also how the bombed communities coped with the devastation. This book presents a unique history of the bombing offensive from below as well as from above, and engages with moral questions that still resonate today.

Bomber Offensive

Author : Arthur Harris
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844152103
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Bomber Offensive written by Arthur Harris and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Harris - Bomber Harris - remains the target of criticism and vilification by many, while others believe the contribution he and his men made to victory is grossly undervalued. He led the men of Bomber Command in the face of appalling casualties, had fierce disagreements with higher authority and enjoyed a complicated relationship with Winston Churchill. Written soon after the close of World War 2, this collection of Sir Arthur Harris's memoirs reveals the man behind the Allied bombing offensive that culminated in the destruction of the Nazi war machine but also many beautiful cities, including Dresden.

B-29 Superfortress Units of World War 2

Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008357
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book B-29 Superfortress Units of World War 2 written by Robert F Dorr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate piston-engined heavy bomber of World War 2, the first production B-29s were delivered to the 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing in the autumn of 1943. By the spring of 1944 the Superfortress was bombing targets in the Pacific, and by war's end the aircraft had played as great a part as any weapon in ending the conflict with the Japanese. Indeed, the final dropping of two atomic bombs from the B-29 convinced the Japanese to sue for peace. This book traces the wartime career of the B-29, as the aircraft went from strength to strength in the Pacific Theatre.

Strategic Bombing by the United States in World War II

Author : Stewart Halsey Ross
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616116
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Bombing by the United States in World War II written by Stewart Halsey Ross and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States relied heavily on bombing to defeat the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, and air raids were touted as "precision" bombing in American propaganda. But was precision possible over cloud-covered Europe or a darkened Japanese countryside? Could the vaunted Norden optical bombsight in fact "drop bombs into pickle barrels" as advertised? Were the American aircrews well trained and well protected? How good were their airplanes? What were the results of the costly raids? This work sets suppositions against facts surrounding the United States' use of strategic bombing in World War II. Chapters cover the events leading up to World War II; the start of the war; the seers and the planners; the airplanes, bombs, bombsights, and aircrews; the planes Germany used to defend itself against American planes; the five cities (Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki) that experienced the most destruction; and the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of the damage done by aerial bombing. The book also probes the government's myth-building statements that supported America's view of itself as a uniquely humanitarian nation, and analyzes the role played by interservice rivalry--"battleship admirals" against "bomber generals."

Snoopers

Author : Stephen M. Perrone
Publisher : Bookman Publishing & Marketing
ISBN 13 : 9781594532788
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Snoopers written by Stephen M. Perrone and published by Bookman Publishing & Marketing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: World War II B-24 Snoopers: Low Level Anti-Shipping Night Bombers Descriptions of combat missions by Bomber crews including diaries, logs and official mission reports; includes overseas photos, and a map. This is the story of the World War II B-24 aircraft SNOOPER Squadrons -- low-level anti-shipping black-painted night bombers in the Pacific Theater. After the Midway and Coral Sea air-sea battle losses, the Japanese, in order to supply and strengthen the hundreds of islands they occupied after December 7, 1941, decided to use small groups or single ships and barges under the cover of darkness, moving among clusters of islands or in the open ocean in inclement weather to avoid being intercepted by American aircraft. The Snoopers came into being because on May 30, 1942, Commanding General Army Air Forces, Hap Arnold, ordered the Director of Technical Services to establish the Sea Search Attack Development Unit, with headquarters at Langley Field, Virginia. On the night of August 27-28, 1943 and continuing nightly until the end of the war, two B-24 Heavy Bombardment Squadrons sank hundreds of thousands tons of Japanese warships, troop and supply ships, bombing with radar precision at an altitude of 1000 to 1500 feet in fair weather or foul. The two squadrons were the 868th Bombardment Squadron of the 13th Air Force and the 63rd Bombardment Squadron of the 5th Air Force. The story is told by the men of the crews who flew these missions that ranged over 1500 miles of the Pacific on each flight search, average mission length 13 hours. Each plane flew alone -- takeoff time at dusk, returning the next morning with luck and acquired skills. Hundreds of combat missions are described by the crew members - most of them were in their twenties - - but some were teenagers. Book contains 296 pages and 60 WWII photographs. Send check or money order for prices indicated on the order form (no credit card orders please) payable to Stephen M. Perrone, N.J.S.G., P.O. Box 100, Somerdale, NJ 08083. You should receive books in about a week from the date I receive your order. Author's Bio:Stephen M Perrone

Superfortress

Author : Curtis E. LeMay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594160394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Superfortress written by Curtis E. LeMay and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Story of the Design, Development, and Deployment of an Iconic Aircraft Among the most sophisticated aircraft flown during World War II, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress was designed to replace the B-17 as the primary long-range bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces. With its distinctive glazed nose and long, thin wings that provided both speed at high altitude and stability at takeoff and landing, the Superfortress was the first operational bomber with a pressurized crew cabin and featured advanced radar and avionics. Armed with remote-controlled machine gun turrets and a 20,000 pound bomb load, it was the first USAAF bomber capable of mastering the vast distances of the Pacific Theater of World War II. The prototype flew in September 1942 but a series of post-production modifications delayed the bomber's first mission until April 1944. Superfortresses began attacking Japan in daylight with conventional ordnance from high altitude, but their mission was redirected in March 1945, with massive low-level formations dropping incendiary bombs! at night on Japanese cities. The ensuing firestorms, followed by the complete destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs dropped from two specially modified "silverplate" B-29s, forced Japan to cease fighting. Written by the man who led the B-29 into combat, Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Airpower in World War II is an important document of one of the most turbulent times in world history. General Curtis LeMay recalls the early debate about whether or not the United States needed a long-range bomber, how the B-29 was created and produced despite the enormous logistical difficulties of the design, and the decision to conduct fire-bombings against Japan and ultimately drop the atomic bomb. Highly praised when it was first published, this new edition is complete with photographs, a new introduction, and statistical tables.

Flying Flak Alley

Author : Alan L. Griggs
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616183
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Flying Flak Alley written by Alan L. Griggs and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities. The guts and glory of the bomber crews came, however, with a high casualty rate which had only improved marginally by the war's end. Descriptions of the bombers' harrowing missions told from the firsthand perspective of their pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners create the immediacy of a single person's experience during one of America's most daring military expeditions. A short biography of each veteran accompanies these tales of typical and not-so-typical missions.

B-17 Flying Fortress

Author : Frederick A. Johnsen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress written by Frederick A. Johnsen and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 pioneered the concepts of strategic bombardment. This work gives technical detail along with little-known facts and stories, as well as accounts of missions, production, avionics, development and the people behind the development of the B-17.