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Book Synopsis The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual by : Martin Robson
Download or read book The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual written by Martin Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring – notably the 'dambusters' raid of 617 squadron on the Ruhr valley dams in May 1943. The success of such operations was testament both to the rugged, reliable qualities of this amazing aircraft and the bravery and skill of the pilots, navigators, bombardiers, flight engineers and gunners that crewed it. They relied on their training and experience, supplemented by various pamphlets and manuals that were produced throughout the war. Supplemented with illustrative plans and diagrams, this fascinating pocket manual provides a unique insight into the wartime operation of this famous aircraft.
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Download or read book The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual written by and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book brings together a selection of authentic period documents, from the Air Ministry Specification of 1936 that triggered the design of the Lancaster, through Night combat Trials and Pilot's notes to those covering technical developments. Supplemented with illustrative plans and diagrams and gives a unique insight into the wartime operation of this famous aircraft. Compiled and contexualised by historian Martin Robson this collection presents a vivid picture of the development and career history of this famous aircraft.
Book Synopsis The Mosquito Pocket Manual by : Martin Robson
Download or read book The Mosquito Pocket Manual written by Martin Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mosquito Pocket Manual collates authentic period sources including pilot's notes and other Air Ministry publications to provide a unique guide to this iconic aircraft. The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was nicknamed "The Wooden Wonder". The Mosquito was also known affectionately as the "Mossie" to its crews. Originally conceived as an unarmed fast bomber the Mosquito was adapted to a wide range of bombing roles. It was also used by BOAC as a fast transport to carry small high-value cargoes to, and from neutral countries through enemy controlled airspace. The book collates a variety of pamphlets and manuals on the plane that were produced throughout the war for the benefit of pilots and others associated with the aircraft.
Book Synopsis The Hurricane Pocket Manual by : Martin Robson
Download or read book The Hurricane Pocket Manual written by Martin Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hurricane Pocket Manual collates authentic period sources including pilot's notes and other Air Ministry publications to provide a unique guide to this iconic aircraft. The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the RAF. Although overshadowed by the Spitfire, during the Battle of Britain the Hurricane accounted for 60% of the RAF's air victories in the battle, and served in all the major theatres of the Second World War. The 1930s design evolved through several versions and adaptations, resulting in a series of aircraft that acted as interceptor-fighters, fighter-bombers (also called 'Hurribombers'), and ground support aircraft. Further versions known as the Sea Hurricane had modifications that enabled operation from ships. Some were converted as catapult-launched convoy escorts, known as 'Hurricats'. More than 14,583 Hurricanes were built by the end of 1944 (including at least 800 converted to Sea Hurricanes and some 1,400 built in Canada. The book collates a variety of pamphlets and manuals on the plane that were produced throughout the war for the benefit of pilots and others associated with the aircraft.
Book Synopsis Thinks He's a Bird by : Ian Campbell
Download or read book Thinks He's a Bird written by Ian Campbell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable and powerful story of indomitable human spirit, passion and courage. In 1941 when Keith Watson, a teenage postal clerk from country Queensland, enlisted in the RAAF, he had absolutely no idea what he was getting himself into. The following four years were an adrenaline-filled ride of love, loss, mateship, ambition, courage and sacrifice, all recorded in an intimate 800-page diary. This is an account of how war tests character and puts the young on an accelerated path to maturity. From childhood and his first inspirational flight to his emergence as an elite Path Finder Force pilot, Keith’s story is compelling and tragic, yet uplifting. He confronts constant death and injury, challenges authority, learns to skipper a crew and finds his trademark humility running headlong into ego and ambition. Keith’s graphic accounts of Pathfinder missions bring a deepening sense of the relentless physical and psychological toll on the crews of Bomber Command. Counterbalancing these experiences are Keith’s relationships with wartime mates, the woman who loved him, and the UK families who sacrificed much on his behalf. Based on material never before released, Thinks He’s A Bird is a stunning account of service, sacrifice and two enduring and competing passions – flying and Norah, the love of Keith’s life. ,
Download or read book Lancaster written by Rick Radell and published by Reed Mitchel Beazley. This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the Lancaster bomber, this book describes this aircraft in detail, suggesting reasons for its high reputation amongst the flying fraternity. It shows how the bomber was used in wartime, the missions it flew on, and the daring flying exploits carried out by its crew.
Book Synopsis The Lancaster by : Gordon A. A. Wilson
Download or read book The Lancaster written by Gordon A. A. Wilson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning illustrated history of the most famous Second World War RAF bomber.
Download or read book The Crew written by David Price and published by Apollo. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Tail Gunner 'Jock' Bolland, Flight Engineer Ken Randle and Radio Operator Roy Woollford were seven ordinary young men living in extraordinary times, risking their lives in freedom's cause in the dark skies above Hitler's Reich. From their earliest beginnings - in places as far apart as a Cotswold village and the suburbs of Sydney - through the adventure of training in North America and the dread and danger of the forty-five bombing raids they flew with 97 Squadron, David Price describes the crew's wartime experiences with human sympathy allied to a secure technical understanding of one of the RAF's most iconic aircraft. The drama and anxiety of individual missions - to Kassel, Munich and Augsburg as well as Berlin - is evoked with thrilling immediacy; while the military events and strategic decisions that drove the RAF's area bombing campaign against Nazi Germany are interwoven deftly with the narrative of the crew's operational careers.
Book Synopsis The Volunteer Artilleryman's Pocket Manual ... by : William Bates Avery
Download or read book The Volunteer Artilleryman's Pocket Manual ... written by William Bates Avery and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Lancaster Bomber by : Nigel Cawthorne
Download or read book The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Lancaster Bomber written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Southwater Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb illustrated history of Britain's greatest night bomber of World War II, with more than 275 photographs.
Book Synopsis Pocket Manual for Shooters and Reloaders by : Parker O. Ackley
Download or read book Pocket Manual for Shooters and Reloaders written by Parker O. Ackley and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Last of the Lancasters by : Martin W. Bowman
Download or read book Last of the Lancasters written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with mussed hair and weary faces, dirty sweaters under their flying suits, sleep-bright eyes, making humble comradely little jokes and eating their saved-up chocolate bars' Martha GellhornThis riveting and highly intriguing collection of pilot and civilian reminiscences works to commemorate the spirit of the almighty Lancaster bomber. Each chapter is dedicated to a unique individual or group of individuals who took part in its history in some capacity. Be they pilot, civilian, or journalist, each played their own part and their accounts offer a host of fascinating insights. Episodes featured include the battle for Munich and the Nuremburg and Berlin Raids. Stories of PoWs downed in their Lancasters and captured in enemy territory also feature, communicating a real sense of peril experienced behind enemy lines. Two sections of fascinating black and white photographs supplement and complete this trawl through the history of the Lancaster bomber and the men and women who witnessed its glory days.
Book Synopsis Lancaster Bomber Walk Around by : Ron MacKay
Download or read book Lancaster Bomber Walk Around written by Ron MacKay and published by MMD-Squadron. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avro Lancaster was unquestionably the finest all-around performer within RAF Bomber Command during the air war against Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1945. The Lancaster flew no fewer than 156,000 individual sorties and dropped more than 600,000 tons of explosives and incendiaries, playing a leading role in bringing Hitler's Reich to its knees. Known for its greenhouse cockpit, turret nose, twin tail, and 33-foot long bomb bay the Lancaster took part in Air Marshall Harris's 'Operation Gomorrah' in July 1943, in which Germany's industrial center of Hamburg was devastated by round-the-clock bombing raids. In the thick of the air war, the Lancasters also paid a high price - 3,249 were lost in action. This volume is enhanced by the fact that the author's uncle survived 36 operations as a bomb aimer aboard a Lancaster of No 49 Squadron. Illustrated with 200 photographs, plus color profiles and detailed line drawings.
Download or read book Lancaster Down! written by Stephen Darlow and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancaster Down tells the incredible story of seven young airmen at war - the Lancaster crew in 405 RCAF Sqn, made up of British and Canadians. They were one of the legions of RAP bomber crews that took the offensive against Germany for most of the war. This booktraces their preparations, air combats and each of their fates. It stands as a fitting testament to the courage of these seven young airmen and countless crews like them.
Book Synopsis No 126 Wing RCAF by : Donald Nijboer
Download or read book No 126 Wing RCAF written by Donald Nijboer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of No 126 Wing began before the D-Day landings and through operations at Falaise Gap, Operation Market Garden, the winter offensive in the Ardennes, and crossing the Rhine into Germany. Donald Nijboer examines the wing's operations chapter by chapter, demonstrating how the five squadrons of Spitfires of No 126 Wing were self-sufficient in everything they did and how, after the Normandy landings, the ground forces could not move without this valuable support. Squadron and ace biographies and stunning artwork bring this fascinating book to life.
Book Synopsis The Volunteer Artilleryman's Pocket Manual by : William Bates Avery
Download or read book The Volunteer Artilleryman's Pocket Manual written by William Bates Avery and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
