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Author : EDGAR D. WHITCOMB.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839742255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book ON CELESTIAL WINGS;U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE NAVIGATORS IN WORLD WAR II written by EDGAR D. WHITCOMB. and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. Frankhouser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book World War II Odyssey written by William L. Frankhouser and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0938021958
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book World War II Glider Pilots written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John William McClane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (433 download)
Download or read book The War Years written by John William McClane and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Gregory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439664285
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Central Coast Aviators in World War II written by Jim Gregory and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the heroism shown by military pilots and aircrew from rural California towns who risked their lives and made their mark on American history. During World War II, thousands of volunteer combat aviators trained at places like Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Hancock Field in Santa Maria. Some air cadets and WASPs—young women pilots—lost their lives in training accidents. The graduates would go on to fight in both the Pacific and European theaters. They faced flak bursts and collisions that resulted in horrifying explosions and were sent on strafing runs that made them targets in a lethal shooting gallery. Downed airmen encountered both unexpected kindness and cruel deprivation as prisoners of war. Through interviews and official records, Jim Gregory tells the stories of heroic Central Coast veterans who fought a war that stretched from New Guinea to North Africa.
Author : Tom Faulkner
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417428
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force written by Tom Faulkner and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944 and 1945, Tom Faulkner was a B-24 pilot flying out of San Giovanni airfield in Italy as a member of the 15th Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Only 19 years old when he completed his 28th and last mission, Tom was one of the youngest bomber pilots to serve in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Between September 1944 and the end of February 1945, he flew against targets in Hungary, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia. On Tom’s last mission against the marshalling yards at Augsburg, Germany, his plane was severely damaged, and he had to fly to Switzerland where he and his crew were interned. The 15th Air Force generally has been overshadowed by works on the 8th Air Force based in England. Faulkner’s memoir helps fill an important void by providing a first-hand account of a pilot and his crew during the waning months of the war, as well as a description of his experiences before his military service. David L. Snead has edited the memoir and provided annotations and corroboration for the various missions.
Author : Robert R. Burch
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412039630
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book World War II written by Robert R. Burch and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a young B-17 pilot and his experiences leading up to military service, training, combat and after service. Anecdotes, stories, photographs included.
Author : Earl Snyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258161651
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)
Download or read book General Leemy's Circus written by Earl Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl A. Snyder
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1794870482
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)
Download or read book General Leemys Circus written by Earl A. Snyder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Leemy's Circus: A Navigator's Story of the Twentieth Air Force In World War II is the action-packed account of the fearless men who flew the Superforts, the B-29's of General Curtis Lemay's XXI Bomber Command. The navigator's role was a critical one and involved making complex directional calculations during the chaos of combat. Navigator turned author Earl Snyder was a whiz at steering pilots through the whirlwinds of skirmishes and had a knack for thinking on the fly in the middle of the storm. His unique improvisational skills earned him a place in the Circus and the important series of bombings that ended the war. This is his story.
Author : Charles E. Skidmore (jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789083184227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (842 download)
Download or read book The G is for Guts written by Charles E. Skidmore (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. Dunn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146100
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Fighter Pilot written by William R. Dunn and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII fighter pilot memoir recounts the author’s many exploits as a flying ace during WWII in the Normandy invasions, the Battle for France and beyond. Born in Minneapolis in 1916, William R. Dunn decided to become a fighter pilot at the age of twelve. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army and was soon transferred to the Royal Air Force. As part of the RAF’s famous Eagle Squadron, Dunn was sent to Europe to fight in the Second World War. Flying Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires, he was the first Eagle Squadron pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft. When he later transferred to the US Army Air Forces, he became the first American ace of the war. Lieutenant Colonel Dunn saw action in the Normandy invasion and in Patton's sweep across France. Twenty years later he fought again in Vietnam. In this lively memoir, Dunn keenly conveys the fighter pilot's experience of war—the tension of combat, the love of aircraft, the elation of victory, the boisterous comradeship and competition of the pilot brotherhood.
Author : James M. Davis
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412094
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book In Hostile Skies written by James M. Davis and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James "Jim" Davis piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. He flew support missions for Operations Cobra and Market Garden and numerous bombing missions over occupied Europe in the summer and fall of 1944, attacking enemy airfields, airplane factories, railroad marshalling yards, ship yards, oil refineries, and chemical plants. While he and his crew survived without serious injuries, they witnessed the destruction of many of their friends' planes and experienced serious damage to their own plane on several occasions.
Author : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626745943
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book In Defense of Freedom written by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-seven stories in this book serve as a graphic reminder of the selfless heroism of America's World War II Army Air Forces flyers and how necessary they were to achieve Allied victory. Wolfgang Samuel and the pilots he interviewed reveal the peril these men faced to achieve a daunting task, impossible without their bravery. And their sacrifices were stunning—American bomber crews suffered the highest casualties (KIA, MIA, POW, wounded) of all American armed services in World War II. The stories preserved in this book bear that grave danger out. A member of a heavy bomber crew in the 8th Air Force in the period from mid-1942 to spring 1944 was less likely to survive than a US Marine fighting on Iwo Jima or Okinawa. The stories in this unique book are about men who went face to face with their adversaries, who saw their buddies die, who crashed planes, and who became prisoners of war. Many later went on to become the backbone of the postwar Air Force, serving in Korea and Vietnam and during the Cold War. Young Ken Chilstrom led a flight of eight A-36 fighter bombers on a low-level foray in Italy. Only he and two others came home. Bob Hoover thought he could take on the entire German air force, but on his first mission he was shot down, nearly perished, and suffered the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp. Wolfgang Samuel's new book is all about men like Ken, Bob, and the many friends they lost, who saw World War II through to the end and gave freedom to so many others.
Author : Ralph H. Nutter
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book With the Possum and the Eagle written by Ralph H. Nutter and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As told by ace navigator Ralph Nutter, this is the story of two of our country's leading airmen during World War II: Haywood "Possum" Hansell and Curtis "the Eagle" LeMay. 24 photos. 2 maps.
Author : Gerard M. Devlin
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Silent Wings written by Gerard M. Devlin and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1985 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John D. Harvie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773513501
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Missing in Action written by John D. Harvie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing in Action is the touching personal account of Canadian Air Force navigator John Harvie's experiences during the final months of World War II, including his encounters with the French Resistance and the Gestapo and as a prisoner at the notorious concentration camp in Buchenwald.
Author : Bruce Galvin Craig
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467035203
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Survival: Self & Country, Wwii written by Bruce Galvin Craig and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventurous true stories of a WWII Navigator on a B24 Liberator Bomber flying from England on missions over Germany. The book follows the author's military training through twenty transfers and his inventive efforts to get a commission and join the Air Corps. Each time a decision was made, some of his comrades went one way and others were sent to the infantry! There is barracks humor: tricks they played on each other and on superior officers. In addition to Chapter indexes, there are indexes of his 13 "near death" experiences and of his 18 missions over Germany, listing cities and targets to be destroyed. Interspersed with his story, in bold type, is a report of what was happening in other theaters of the war. Excellent review of little known events and strategies.
