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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 : Duncan Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781326506155
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier written by Duncan Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier, Duncan Campbell has penetrated the veil of secrecy around this concentration of armed forces on our shores, and shows how wartime US military power in Britain now matches the height of the Cold War, thirty years ago. This is an authorised re-issue of the 1986 version of this book.
Author : Simon Duke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349184829
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book US Defence Bases in the United Kingdom written by Simon Duke and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant Peerless
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781557921
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)
Download or read book UK Airfields Past and Present written by Grant Peerless and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books about airfields have been written but this one covers most of them in one volume. It describes 1700 airfields and provides details of the activities carried out, based units and current status of military bases, civil airfields and farm strips. Over one hundred photographs are included, most of which have not been published previously.
Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425801
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Nigeria and World War II written by Chima J. Korieh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author : Roy Brazier
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shannon Caudill
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781782666851
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency written by Shannon Caudill and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.
Author : Peter Jacobs
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473870054
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Bomber Command Airfields of Yorkshire written by Peter Jacobs and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the accomplished military author and former RAF Officer Peter Jacobs takes us to the county of Yorkshire and to its many bomber airfields of the Second World War.From the opening day of hostilities, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to Nazi Germany and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Yorkshires airfields played a key part throughout, initially as home to the Whitley squadrons of No 4 Group and then to the four-engine Halifax heavy bombers; indeed, Bomber Commands first night operation of the war was flown from one of the countys many bomber airfields. Then, as the bombing offensive gathered pace, Yorkshire welcomed the new all-Canadian No 6 (RCAF) Group, after which all of Bomber Commands major efforts during the hardest years of 1943/44 against the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin involved the Yorkshire-based squadrons.Most of Yorkshires wartime bomber airfields have long gone, but many have managed to retain the flying link with their wartime past. For example, the former RAF airfields of Finningley and Middleton St George, and the factory airfield of Yeadon, are now the sites of international airports, while Breighton, Burn, Full Sutton, Pocklington and Rufforth are still used for light aircraft flying or gliding and Elvington is home to the magnificent Yorkshire Air Museum.From airfields such as these came countless acts of personal courage and self-sacrifice, with two men being awarded the Victoria Cross, Britains highest award for gallantry. Stories of both men are included, as are tales of other personalities who brought these airfields to life. The stories of thirty-three airfields are told in total, with a brief history of each accompanied by details of how to find them and what remains of them today. Whatever your interest, be it aviation history or more local, the county of Yorkshire has rightly taken its place in the history of Bomber Command.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II: Plans and early operations, January 1939 to August 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190061014
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the Eastern front. For all that he had been pushing for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort--the Soviets were bearing by far the heaviest burden in terms of casualties--Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. His concern was that they would spy on his regime, and it would be difficult to get rid of them afterword. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Flying Fortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltava region in Ukraine. As Plokhy's book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the nature of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for the same goal, Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched over the operations, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American servicemen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. Indeed, the story of the American bases foreshadowed the eventual collapse of the Grand Alliance and the start of the Cold War. Using previously inaccessible archives, Forgotten Bastards offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance, showing how it first began to fray on the airfields of World War II.
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 9780900913099
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Airfields of the Eighth Then and Now written by Roger Anthony Freeman and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 1978 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the World War II. 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 mouldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavours of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men.
Author : Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Author : Robert Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Air Force Bases: Air bases outside the United States of America written by Robert Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Dumaux Edmonds
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915419
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942 written by Walter Dumaux Edmonds and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1951 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529227704
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Britain written by John Clarke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.
Author : Jonathan Falconer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711021754
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)
Download or read book RAF Fighter Airfields of World War 2 written by Jonathan Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En komplet skildring af RAF's jagerflyvepladser under 2. verdenskrig i lighed med en tidligere bog om RAF bombeflyvepladser. Desuden en række piloters personlige oplevelser.
Author : Robin J. Brooks
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781853062599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Sussex Airfields in the Second World War written by Robin J. Brooks and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes the airfields of Sussex during the last war, the planes and the pilots who flew them, and the local civilians who worked alongside them. It is fully illustrated.
