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The Axis Air Forces

Author : Frank Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Axis Air Forces written by Frank Joseph and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume tells the rarely recounted stories of the numerous foreign air forces that supported the German Luftwaffe as part of the Axis' quest to dominate the European and Pacific theaters—a highly compelling and often overlooked chapter of World War II history. The Axis Air Forces: Flying in Support of the German Luftwaffe presents an untold history of that global conflict's little-known combatants, who nonetheless contributed significantly to the war's outcome. While most other books only attempt to address this subject in passing, author Frank Joseph provides not only an extremely comprehensive account of the "unsung heroes" of the Axis fliers, but also describes the efforts of Axis air forces such as those of the Iraqi, Manchurian, Thai or Chinese—specific groups of wartime aviators that have never been discussed before at length. This book examines the distinct but allied Axis air forces of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. An extensive introduction provides coverage of Luftwaffe volunteers from Greece, Lithuania, Holland, Denmark, Norway and even the United States. Detailed descriptions of the personnel themselves and the aircraft they operated are portrayed against the broader scope of combat missions, field operations, and military campaigns, supplying invaluable historical perspective on the importance of their sorties.

The Axis Air Forces

Author : Frank Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313395918
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Axis Air Forces written by Frank Joseph and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume tells the rarely recounted stories of the numerous foreign air forces that supported the German Luftwaffe as part of the Axis' quest to dominate the European and Pacific theaters—a highly compelling and often overlooked chapter of World War II history. The Axis Air Forces: Flying in Support of the German Luftwaffe presents an untold history of that global conflict's little-known combatants, who nonetheless contributed significantly to the war's outcome. While most other books only attempt to address this subject in passing, author Frank Joseph provides not only an extremely comprehensive account of the "unsung heroes" of the Axis fliers, but also describes the efforts of Axis air forces such as those of the Iraqi, Manchurian, Thai or Chinese—specific groups of wartime aviators that have never been discussed before at length. This book examines the distinct but allied Axis air forces of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. An extensive introduction provides coverage of Luftwaffe volunteers from Greece, Lithuania, Holland, Denmark, Norway and even the United States. Detailed descriptions of the personnel themselves and the aircraft they operated are portrayed against the broader scope of combat missions, field operations, and military campaigns, supplying invaluable historical perspective on the importance of their sorties.

Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis

Author : Kevin A. Mahoney
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081088495X
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis written by Kevin A. Mahoney and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, historian Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the crucial role played by this air force from November 1943 through May 1945. Presented by month in chronological order, Mahoney describes all the major bombing and fighter missions carried out by this air force within a strategic context. Each chapter includes an introduction describing developments in the evolution of the strategic air campaign against the Germans, highlights the purpose and importance of the month’s operations, and reviews the Luftwaffe’s resistance and changes in tactics and important developments in the Fifteenth Air Force’s organization. Each monthly narrative further explores most missions, detailing the number of aircraft lost during these missions. Losses are based on an exhaustively researched database compiled by Mahoney that contains details of almost 3,000 aircraft. Target damage is mentioned, while enemy opposition is also described for each mission. Appendices include four short essays on bombing operations (planning and flying of missions, tactics and techniques, bomb types, and bombing accuracy), tactics employed by fighter escort in aerial combat and strafing, combat crews and their aircraft (including a comparison of American fighters and bombers, the training of the crews, and their combat tours), and the Fifteenth Air Force command structure (including the use of intelligence, photo and weather reconnaissance, and the considerable effect of weather on Fifteenth Air Force operations). This work of military history is ideal for students and scholars of the air war in Europe.

Air War Italy, 1944-45

Author : Nick Beale
Publisher : Airlife Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Air War Italy, 1944-45 written by Nick Beale and published by Airlife Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first account of the Luftwaffe and their allies from the liberation of Rome to the Axis surrender in Italy. It covers not only fighter combats but includes details of an Italian torpedo attack on Gibraltar.

Why the Axis Lost

Author : John Arquilla
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674523
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Why the Axis Lost written by John Arquilla and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades. One prevalent view is that overwhelming Allied superiority in materials and manpower doomed the Axis. Another holds that key strategic and tactical blunders lost the war--from Hitler halting his panzers outside Dunkirk, allowing more than 300,000 trapped Allied soldiers to escape, to Admiral Yamamoto falling into the trap set by the U.S. Navy at Midway. Providing a fresh perspective on the war, this study challenges both views and offers an alternative explanation: the Germans, Japanese and Italians made poor design choices in ships, planes, tanks and information security--before and during the war--that forced them to fight with weapons and systems that were too soon outmatched by the Allies. The unprecedented arms race of World War II posed a fundamental "design challenge" the Axis powers sometimes met but never mastered.

Axis Air Forces 1940-45

Author : Christopher F. Shores
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Axis Air Forces 1940-45 written by Christopher F. Shores and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Malta 1940–42

Author : Ryan K. Noppen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472820614
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Malta 1940–42 written by Ryan K. Noppen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war, first Italy and then Germany sought to force a surrender or reduce the defences enough to allow an invasion. Drawing on original documents, multilingual aviation analyst Ryan Noppen explains how technical and tactical problems caused the original Italian air campaign of 1940–41 to fail, and then how the German intervention came close to knocking Malta out of the war. Using stunning full colour artwork, this fascinating book explains why the attempt by the Axis powers to take the British colony of Malta ultimately failed.

The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wings at War Series

Author : United States. Army Air Forces
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wings at War Series written by United States. Army Air Forces and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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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:

The Mediterranean and Middle East: The destruction of the Axis forces in Africa

Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean and Middle East: The destruction of the Axis forces in Africa written by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The North African Air Campaign

Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700618783
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The North African Air Campaign written by Christopher M. Rein and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1942, Axis forces controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean. Less than a year later, they had been swept from the African continent-thanks in no small part to efforts of the fledgling U.S. Army Air Force. Indeed, USAAF in North Africa emerged as a senior partner in the Alliance, supplying aircraft and crews at a rate the other partners were unable to match. Going beyond the spare analysis of North African air operations in previous accounts, Christopher Rein shows how American fighter planes and heavy bombers, employed in almost exclusively tactical and operational roles, played a pivotal role in the Alliance's successful ground campaigns. This aerial armada also had a significant negative impact on enemy logistics through its bombing raids on Axis ports, shipping, and airfields. In the process, USAAF helped foster and develop a pattern of inter-service cooperation that remains at the foundation of American close-air-support doctrine today. Rein chronicles the emergence of USAAF in the late interwar and early WWII periods as a more heterogeneous and creative fighting force than earlier works have led us to believe. He then analyzes little-known aspects of the war, including early air operations in the eastern Mediterranean and in the TORCH landings. He explores some of the key issues confronting Eisenhower, such as how to establish USAAF priorities and how to deploy long-range bombers, fighters, and attack forces. In describing the struggle for balance in the employment of air assets between strategic bombing and interdiction in a time fraught with inter-service rivalry, he shows how, despite occasional mistakes such as the heavy losses involved in the Ploesti raids, USAAF struck a suitable balance and even invested more assets in interdiction than traditional accounts of strategic bombardment would suggest. A virtual operational-level history of the USAAF during the formative period of American airpower, Rein's account pulls together material from diverse sources to demonstrate that today's Air Force emphasis on mobility, intelligence, reconnaissance, and close support for ground forces have deep roots. By showing that the Army Air Force in World War II did not neglect support for ground and naval forces in order to concentrate exclusively on strategic bombing, it suggests lessons for military and civilian leaders in the employment of air forces in current and future conflicts.

Command Of The Air

Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

12th & 15th Air Forces

Author : Gerard Paloque
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782352502104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book 12th & 15th Air Forces written by Gerard Paloque and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch on November 8, 1942.The unit served with the Northwest African Air Forces from February to December 1943, then with the Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean (MAAF) until the end of the war alongside the other unit presented in this work: the 15th Air Force.Formed in November 1943, the 15th Air Force was established to operate in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), primarily from air fields located in southern Italy where they were stationed. The objectives of both units were to destroy all the oil refineries and aircraft factories.Ge'rard Paloque provides a well rounded overview of all those involved in the 12th and 15th Air Forces as well as the aircraft utilized by these two great units, bringing to life many of the objectives and results that have been often forgotten by World War II historians. The reader will find a chapter dedicated to the famous Tuskegee airmen-the 322nd Fighter Group of the 15th Air Force, the United States' first all-black air unit.

Axis Aircraft of World War II

Author : David Mondey
Publisher : Bounty Books
ISBN 13 : 9781851529667
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Axis Aircraft of World War II written by David Mondey and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing in particular upon Germany, Japan and Italy, this guide shows the design and firepower of fighter bombers during World War II. It describes the aircraft, their pilots and their bombing missions in detail, and the construction of each country's air forces and fighting strategies.

Strangling the Axis

Author : Richard Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108478212
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Strangling the Axis written by Richard Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hammond offers a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean region.

Impact

Author : James Parton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Impact written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3 of eight books, declassified and published for the general public with fourteen new retrospective essays by World War II leaders and journalists.