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Dead Before Dawn

Author : Frank Broome
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844686140
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Dead Before Dawn written by Frank Broome and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Broome was a 15 year old schoolboy when he experienced the three major blitzes in his home city of Coventry and at the age of 17 volunteered for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1942 for pilot training. This autobiography, based on his copious diary entries and log books traces his pilot training in the UK, Canada and the USA where he flew single and twin-engined aircraft. Despite his almost perfect training record he, like many of his fellow trainees at this time, was not to gain his R.A.F. wings. There was a shortage of air crew, other than pilots, and Frank eventually transferred to an air-gunnery course. On his return to the UK he undertook operational crew training on Wellington as a tail gunner and made operational training sorties over enemy territory shortly after the D-Day landings. His crew then converted to four-engined heavy bombers first the Halifax and then the Lancaster. He gives first-hand detailed accounts of the many missions during his tour with No. 626 Squadron during the height of Bomber Commands massed raids over Germany and occupied Europe. Excitement abounds with narrow squeaks from enemy night-fighters, radar directed anti-aircraft fire and other hazards of this most dangerous task. He eventually flew with two Wing Commanders and a Squadron Leader with crews who gained several gallantry awards. His book is written with a skill that portrays the dangers inherent in his task, the humor of service life and the sound reasons why his generation were proud to fly with Bomber Command.

The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII

Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783831936
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII written by Martin Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a member of air-crew during the various bombing operations of the Second World War. The storytellers are an eclectic mix of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners who flew on operations in heavy bombers. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, often catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the comradeship between the crew and the humour between them, often borne of fear. The gentle and unassuming narratives include 'Millennium'; 'One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'; Bomber's Moon; 'Bombing Berlin' 'The Ordeal Of Pilot Officer Romans DFC'; Last Man Out' operations on Whitleys and Halifaxes; Flying Officer 'X'; Stirlings; 'Rescue At Sea' 'The Incendiary Load's Alight'; 'The Night Of The Bombs' and 'The Kassel Raids of 1943' as well as BBC Broadcasts and stories by Allied war correspondents. Each of these accounts conveys the sense of purpose that these men felt in doing one of the most dangerous jobs of the war. It is a fitting tribute to those that survived and the many thousands who died in the struggle against Hitler's dreadful ambitions in Europe.

B-17 Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions

Author : U. S. Army Air Force
Publisher : Periscope Film LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781935327806
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book B-17 Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions written by U. S. Army Air Force and published by Periscope Film LLC. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boeing B-17 was the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber. Used throughout World War II for strategic bombing, the plane earned a reputation for its toughness and versatility. Carrying a crew of ten, and 8,000 pounds of bombs on long range missions, the '17 wreaked havoc on Germany during the critical years 1942-45. The "Memphis Belle," the first B-17 to fly 25 missions over Europe, is perhaps the most famous plane to emerge from the European Theatre. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in December of 1942, the B-17 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the "Queen of the Skies." Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been reformatted, and color images appear as black and white. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text. This is an authentic WWII era document, reprinted here in its entirety with attractive gloss covers. Please note, due to the archival nature of this document, page quality can vary.

How to Fly a Second World War Heavy Bomber

Author : L. Archard
Publisher : Amberley Pub Plc
ISBN 13 : 9781445636726
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book How to Fly a Second World War Heavy Bomber written by L. Archard and published by Amberley Pub Plc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you fly a Lancaster, or a Halifax or even a Stirling? Using original Pilot's Notes, Louis Archard introduces you to the famous aircraft of the Bomber Offensive.

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.

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.

The B-17 Flying Fortress

Author : Steve Birdsall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The B-17 Flying Fortress written by Steve Birdsall and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Pilot Training Manual for the B-17 Flying Fortress

Author : United States Army Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925907117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pilot Training Manual for the B-17 Flying Fortress written by United States Army Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the first prototype rolling off the assembly line in 1935, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was the world's first truly mass-produced four engined heavy bomber. The B-17 was used as the backbone of the US Army Air Force's strategic bomber forces through all theaters of the Second World War. Used as a strategic bomber from Europe to Burma to the Pacific and North Africa, the B-17 earned a well-deserved reputation for bomb load, firepower, versatility and sheer ruggedness of the airframe. The B-17 carried a crew of 10 and the aircraft routinely hauled thousands of pounds of bombs on long-range "Aluminum Overcast" bombing missions Carrying a crew of ten, and 8,000 pounds of bombs on long range missions, the B-17 wreaked havoc on Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan during the most critical years of the Second World War. Printed by the U.S. Army Air Force's Office of Flying Safety in 1944, this B-17 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual was an easy-to-read reference book which at a glance reminded B-17 pilots everything they needed to know about the "Fort." Originally classified "Restricted", the manual was declassified long ago and is presented here, reprinted in book format with similar dimensions to the original manual and packed with historic photographs and lavishly illustrated with two-color graphics and charts. With originals becoming exceedingly rare, and with a price tag to match, this classic manual is a perfect lower-cost reference copy for aviation or military history enthusiasts. We are proud to have been able to remaster and restore our original copy in order bring this iconic aviation manual back into print.

1st Lt. Raymond Miller Pilot

Author : Ruby Gwin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490718168
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book 1st Lt. Raymond Miller Pilot written by Ruby Gwin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many World War II exploits took place away from the spotlight. Raymond Miller brings his gift to the story of Service and Duty. How he chose to leave Purdue University, ROTC, a basketball team and parents behind to help bring a dictator to heel as co-pilot of a B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber. On Raymond's second combat mission he nearly lost his life from a piece of shrapnel to the throat and shattered breast bone. After surgery and rehab he resumed to co-pilot twenty more combat missions encountering the best the Germans could throw against them. They'd leave out to fly a mission over hostile territory not knowing when they might be hit or knowing if they would return. There were flights where the crews gulp to alleviate fear, for they felt there were no havens of security in an Allied victory that at times seemed importable. Raymond Miller feels honored to have been able to serve his country. Raymond's story gives a compelling glimpse of three brothers' value that characterized their early years and their United States Army Air Corps years of dedication. Raymond says, "I feel blessed for God has been good to me.

Miss Green Bay

Author : Jack Rude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Miss Green Bay written by Jack Rude and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an 8th Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress tail gunner in World War II, Jack Rude, from December 24, 1944 through April 19, 1945, flew 32 combat bombing missions over Germany. Flying most of his missions in a "Coming Home" B-17 named Miss Green Bay, Mr. Rude with 8 other crew members flew from Debach, England in one hundred-mile long, 1,000- to 2,000-aircraft bomber streams against thousands of enemy fighters and acrid man- and plane-destroying flak in an effort to destroy Hitler's ability to make war. In this book, Mr. Rude describes his youth in Herrin, Illinois, his early personal military training, the creation of the Harris crew, the Harris crew's training in the four-engine Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber (including a crash landing in the Central Oregon Gunnery Range), the Harris crew's conversion at the cusp of battle to the four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, and the Harris crew's 32 combat bombing missions over Germany (including a shoot-down and crash landing in Belgium). Following World War II, Mr. Rude remained in the U.S. Air Force serving in Germany with the U.S. Army of Occupation, in Greece under the American Mission for Aid to Greece (AMAG) program, at Rhein-Main AFB, Germany during the Berlin Airlift, and in the U.S., Libya, and England during the Cold War and Korean War (Police Action). If you plan to read one or many books about World War II, this one should be on your list--one young man from small-town America--multiple earthshaking moments in world history.

The B-17 - The Flying Forts

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 0743434706
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The B-17 - The Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no such thunder in history -- nor ever will be again -- as the deep-throated roar of the mighty, four-engined B-17s that streamed across the skies in World War II. The long runways are silent now, the men and planes are gone. But out of the massive files of records available, and the memories of the men who flew, Martin Caidin has assembled this dramatic portrait of America's most formidable heavy bomber of the war. The B-17: The Flying Forts recreates a vanished era and a great and gallant plane -- a plane that could absorb three thousand enemy bullets, fly with no rudder, and complete its mission on two engines. A plane that American pilots flew at Pearl Harbor, Tunis, Midway, Palermo, Schweinfurt, Regensberg, Normandy, and Berlin, in thousands of missions and through hundreds of thousands of miles of flak-filled skies. A plane that proved itself in every combat theater as the greatest heavy bomber of World War II.

Shot at and Missed

Author : Jack R. Myers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806180307
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Shot at and Missed written by Jack R. Myers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting narrative, Jack R. Myers recounts his experiences as a B-17 bombardier during World War II. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944 at age twenty, Myers began flying missions with the 2nd Bomb Group, U.S. Fifteenth Air Force. He learned firsthand the exhilaration—and terror—of being shot at and missed. Based in Italy, the Fifteenth Air Force flew strategic bombing raids over southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia. Less celebrated than the Eighth Air Force, which flew out of England, the Fifteenth, nevertheless, was pivotal in dismantling the German industrial complex. Myers offers an insider’s view of these missions over southern and central Europe. The reader goes with him into the highly exposed Plexiglas nose of the Flying Fortress, flying with him through the flak-filled skies of Europe and peering with him through his Norden bombsight at Axis targets. On average, a heavy-bomber crewman survived only sixteen bombing missions. Myers survived his allotted thirty-five missions before being honorably discharged in 1945.

To Fly and Fight

Author : Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524563420
Total Pages : 576 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 576 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.

Flying Forts

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Ingratitude

Author : James Fyfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Great Ingratitude written by James Fyfe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Physiological Problems Of Bomber Crews In The Eighth Air Force During WWII

Author : Major James J. Carroll
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782897895
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Physiological Problems Of Bomber Crews In The Eighth Air Force During WWII written by Major James J. Carroll and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation physiology is a highly relevant field to flyers of unpressurized aircraft that flew at altitudes in excess of 25,000 feet. Crew members had to contend with severe environmental factors while flying long bombing missions during WWII. The limits of human physiology must be the main concern of any battle plan involving flyers and fatality/mortality rates should be the primary focus in evaluating the success or failure of such a plan. The purpose of this research project is to determine if human factors were overlooked intentionally or by accident. If they were overlooked unintentionally, then what was done to resolve the physiological problems of the aircrews? The project will also underscore the continued need to address the human machine during any plan in today’s demanding aviation environment. Chapter one explores whether or not the limits of the human being was taken into account when the WWII bombing planners developed AWPD-1. It provides an insight into why AWPD-1 was created without regard to the aircrew members, and how this neglect could have possibly been remedied. Chapter two examines the machines of the day, in particular the B-17, to see if it was ready to carry out the assigned missions envisioned by the war planners. The early wartime experience of the B-17 by the Royal Air Force was disappointing, but nevertheless it was looked upon by the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) as the ultimate bomber that could complete any assignment. This chapter also provides some insight into a “typical” mission the B-17 aircrew had to endure and the aircraft’s ability to carry out the assigned bombing missions. Chapter three deals with the physiological problems experienced by the aircrews and what was done to alleviate them. Chapter four focuses on the non-combat accident rates of the Eighth Air Force, what they meant, and how the leadership reacted to them.