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To War With The Yoxford Boys

Author : Merle Msgt Olmsted
Publisher : Eagle Editions Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780972106061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book To War With The Yoxford Boys written by Merle Msgt Olmsted and published by Eagle Editions Limited. This book was released on 2005-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activities of one of the premier Mustang Groups of WWII is thoroughly covered in this exciting book by Merle Olmsted, the official historian of the 357th Fighter Group. Utilizing mission reports, monthly statistical and operational reports, the pilot’s individual encounter reports, the Missing Aircrew reports, USAAF accident reports and the British police reports on accidents among other information laden personal notes, books, articles plus the original 357th group records on file at the Air Force Historical Archives, Olmsted weaves together the many stories, comments, incidents and hairy tales of the 357th F.G. Discover detailed information about the Formation of the Group, Flying problems, Training, Combats Days in Europe, Relationships between pilots and ground crews, first person accounts of combat flying, air battles with the Luftwaffe’s Me 262 jets and more!

To Fly and Fight

Author : Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524563420
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book To Fly and Fight written by Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bud Anderson is a flyers flyer. The Californians enduring love of flying began in the 1920s with the planes that flew over his fathers farm. In January 1942, he entered the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program. Later after he received his wings and flew P-39s, he was chosen as one of the original flight leaders of the new 357th Fighter Group. Equipped with the new and deadly P-51 Mustang, the group shot down five enemy aircraft for each one it lost while escorting bombers to targets deep inside Germany. But the price was high. Half of its pilots were killed or imprisoned, including some of Buds closest friends. In February 1944, Bud Anderson, entered the uncertain, exhilarating, and deadly world of aerial combat. He flew two tours of combat against the Luftwaffe in less than a year. In battles sometimes involving hundreds of airplanes, he ranked among the groups leading aces with 16 aerial victories. He flew 116 missions in his old crow without ever being hit by enemy aircraft or turning back for any reason, despite one life or death confrontation after another. His friend Chuck Yeager, who flew with Anderson in the 357th, says, In an airplane, the guy was a mongoosethe best fighter pilot I ever saw. Buds years as a test pilot were at least as risky. In one bizarre experiment, he repeatedly linked up in midair with a B-29 bomber, wingtip to wingtip. In other tests, he flew a jet fighter that was launched and retrieved from a giant B-36 bomber. As in combat, he lost many friends flying tests such as these. Bud commanded a squadron of F-86 jet fighters in postwar Korea, and a wing of F-105s on Okinawa during the mid-1960s. In 1970 at age 48, he flew combat strikes as a wing commander against communist supply lines. To Fly and Fight is about flying, plain and simple: the joys and dangers and the very special skills it demands. Touching, thoughtful, and dead honest, it is the story of a boy who grew up living his dream.

To War with the Yoxford Boys

Author : Merle C. Olmstedt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972106078
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book To War with the Yoxford Boys written by Merle C. Olmstedt and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering several hundred pages, utilising hundreds of photos and dozens of colour profiles and paintings, the story about fighter pilots, fighter planes, the ground crews of many trades and the military unit that gave them cohesion making them an outstanding team - the complete story of the 357th is told. As the official historian for the 357th and a dedicated history buff, author Merle Olmsted has been associated with and written about fighter pilots and 'his group' for some 50 years. Included are listings from the official documents tallying the group's accomplishments. Utilising mission reports, monthly statistical and operational reports, the pilot's individual encounter reports, the Missing Aircrew reports, USAAF accident reports and the British police reports on accidents among other information laden personal notes, books, articles plus the original 357th Group records on file at the Air Force Historical Archives, Olmsted weaves together the many stories, comments, incidents and hairy tales of the 357th F.G. To War with the Yoxford Boys is the final, 'super' book on the 357th. As of fall 2001, the 357th Fighter Group Association, a post-war gathering of their members, has 't

Mustang Aces of the 357th Fighter Group

Author : Chris Bucholtz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008721
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mustang Aces of the 357th Fighter Group written by Chris Bucholtz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 357th Fighter Group produced 42 aces, more than any other group within the USAAF. It was also the first group in the Eighth Air Force to be equipped with the P-51. Thanks to this fighter and the talented pilots assigned to the group (men such as Bud Anderson, Kit Carson, John England and Chuck Yeager) the 357th achieved a faster rate of aerial victories than any other Eighth Air Force group during the final year of the war. It also claimed the highest number of aerial kills – 56 – in a single mission. The group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations (the unit equivalent of the Medal of Honor). Written by Chris Bucholtz, this book is crammed full of first-hand accounts, superb photography and some of the most colorful profiles to be found in World War II aviation.

The Yoxford Boys

Author : Merle Olmsted
Publisher : Tab Books
ISBN 13 : 9780816897667
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Yoxford Boys written by Merle Olmsted and published by Tab Books. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US 357th Fighter Group's enhedshistorie

The Great Rat Race for Europe

Author : Joey Maddox
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462886299
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Great Rat Race for Europe written by Joey Maddox and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Rat Race for Europe: Stories of the 357th Fighter Group (Sortie One) tells the true stories of the Yoxford Boys of the 357th Fighter Group; arguably the best Army Air Force fighter group in the European Theater during World War Two. Aces Kit Carson, Bud Anderson, Johnny England, Pete Peterson, Chuck Yeager and others from this elite group of "tigers" eventually became famous after the war, while other Yoxford Boys just melted back into the scenery that was the American post war years. Those were the lucky ones as scores of these brave, young American lads flying their P-51 Mustangs into combat against the Luftwaffe never saw home again as the result of this epic air war over Europe. Their stories are all here including Leonard "Kit" Carson's account of The Great Rat Race which helped to break the back of the Luftwaffe (from his fantastic book Pursue and Destroy), the strange and sad end of decorated fighter ace Dittie Jenkins who safely returned from his last mission against the Nazis only to be killed while celebrating with an impromptu air show over Station 373 at Leiston, and the first hand account of life in a Stalag Luft (prisoner of war camp) with Colonel Henry Spicer, the irascible commanding officer of the American section of the POW camp (and one-time 357th Fighter Group Commanding Officer) who drove the German officers to the brink with his rock solid spirit of rebellion and the love and admiration of his men. Fly into weather so thick that the ducks are walking with Pete Peterson, one of the leading aces of the Group, as he walks you through a hair-raising landing on Leiston Field with zero visibility and three inexperienced pilots on his wing. Then 357th fighter pilot Joe Shea recaptures the common boredom ridden hours and terror stricken moments faced by replacement pilots of the Group during their first combat missions, including Shea's account of his last encounter, eyeball to eyeball, with a German pilot in an Me-262 jet fighter as it slid over his wing and lined up perfectly in his gun sight. Relive the greatest (as well as the worst) days of the 8th Air Force's first long range Mustang fighter outfit in short stories written by the pilots of the 357th Fighter Group, their families, and this author in this collection of memories and tall tales of the famous Yoxford Boys.

Family Dancing

Author : David Leavitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620407051
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Family Dancing written by David Leavitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a knowledge of others' lives . . . that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.” In “Territory,” a well-intentioned, liberal mother, presiding over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, finds her acceptance of her son's sexuality shaken when he arrives home with a lover. In the title story, a family extended through divorce and remarriage dances together at the end of a summer party-in the recognition that they are still bound by the very forces that split them apart. Tender and funny, these stories reveal the intricacies and subtleties of the dances in which we all engage.

Boy of the Border

Author : Arna Bontemps
Publisher : Sweet Earth Flying Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780979098703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Boy of the Border written by Arna Bontemps and published by Sweet Earth Flying Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novella length version was published as 'Broncos over the border,' Jack and Jill magazine, July, 1956"--T.p. vers

California Joe

Author : Joe E. Milner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803281509
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book California Joe written by Joe E. Milner and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canvas Falcons; the Story of the Men and the Planes of World War I.

Author : Stephen Longstreet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789150040029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Canvas Falcons; the Story of the Men and the Planes of World War I. written by Stephen Longstreet and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mighty Eighth

Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698197127
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Mighty Eighth written by Gerald Astor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the skies of World War II Europe, the Eighth Air Force was a defining factor in turning the tide against the Nazis. In these gripping oral histories, the sacrifice, savagery, and supremacy of the “Mighty Eighth” is described by those who experienced it...and survived it. At the outbreak of World War II, America was woefully unprepared for a fight, though Europe was already years into the battle. Soon, though, America’s war machine was rolling out pilots, engineers, planes, and materials in astounding numbers. It was called the Eighth Air Force—and it would hit the Nazi juggernaut like a lightning bolt. Launching a then-groundbreaking campaign of daylight bombing runs, the men of the Eighth would suffer more casualties than the entire Marine Corps in the Pacific theater. But they would also prove to be the most effective weapon against the enemy, taking out strategic targets such as munitions plants and factories that were vital to the German war effort and grinding them to a halt. In The Mighty Eighth, the men who fought in the greatest air war in human history tell their stories of courage and camaraderie as only those who were there can tell them.

The Dakota Hunter

Author : Hans Wiesman
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612002595
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Dakota Hunter written by Hans Wiesman and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.

Runaway Pony

Author : Jeanne Betancourt
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590543385
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Runaway Pony written by Jeanne Betancourt and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early chapter book series featuring a group of young girls and their ponies.

With Wings As Eagles

Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1510705155
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book With Wings As Eagles written by Philip Kaplan and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1942, the Eighth Air Force began a precision bombing raid offensive deep into Nazi Germany, embarking from bases in rural England. Nearly 350,000 Americans were transplanted to English soil, joining their British colleagues for this joint Allied offensive. For many it was a period of great risk, and arguably the greatest adventure of their lives. With Wings As Eagles celebrates the heroics of these pilots and their missions. A lavishly illustrated, full-color, hardcover original, the narrative is the result of the author’s exclusive interviews with many of the pilots and crew, as well as research from contemporary diaries, journals, and scrapbooks. Readers relive the nostalgia and vivid reminiscences — of days of seemingly endless boredom and fatigue, the loneliness of soaring in an aluminum cocoon four miles over an intended target, and a surprising account of parachuting onto German soil and being captured by women and children. With Wings As Eagles relives the drama and history of an heroic era.

Fighting Gear of World War I

Author : Carroll B. Colby
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780698300774
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Gear of World War I written by Carroll B. Colby and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1961 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures and text describe the firearms, artillery, and vehicles used in World War II by American soldiers

Bleeding Sky

Author : Joey Maddox
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462833624
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Bleeding Sky written by Joey Maddox and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Captain Fletcher E. Adams and the famous 357th Fighter Group. Known collectively as the “Yoxford Boys” the 357th was the first P-51 Mustang fighter group in the history of the “Mighty” 8th Air Force. Although active for less than two years during World War II, the group set many records and became one of the greatest fighter outfits the U. S. Air Force would ever send into combat. Between February 1944 and April 1945 the 357th produced more aces than any other American fighter group. They also shot down more German jets than any other group in the Army Air Corps during the Second World War. On January 14, 1945, a day that will forever be known as “The Great Rat Race” and “The Big Day”, the 357th Fighter Group shot down 55 1⁄2 German fighters in just over two hours setting a record in military aviation that has never and probably will never be broken. Among the members of this amazing group of fighter pilots were: Chuck Yeager, Bud Anderson, Kit Carson, John England, and others destined for fame. So was Captain Fletcher E. Adams, a native son of the small village of Ida, Louisiana. Then, on May 30, 1944, Adams, the leading ace of the 357th Fighter Group with 9 kills to his credit, was shot down over Tiddische, Germany and murdered by civilians on the ground. This is their story as told by the pilots through their books, diaries, and interviews with the author. Theirs was an adventure never to be matched again in the annals of aviation history. Find out what it was really like to go “to war with the Yoxford Boys”! “This book gives us the best insight into a tragic causality of WW II and the mystery of what happened to Captain Fletcher E. Adams. Joey Maddox’s use of other voices, quotes and investigative interviews make the story interesting. You’ll not only learn about Fletcher Adams but also the history of the 357th Fighter Group. I found the use of Adams’ personal diary, an illegal practice in wartime, particularly interesting to learn of his personal feelings during his training and combat.” Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson Colonel, USAF Ret.

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.