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Book Synopsis VIII Fighter Command at War by : Michael O'Leary
Download or read book VIII Fighter Command at War written by Michael O'Leary and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944. The detailed document chronicled the experiences of 24 pilots who had seen extensive service in the frontline escorting B-17s and B-24s on daylight raids deep into Germany. Briefed to provide a candid report on combat flying that could be used as a teaching 'manual' for potential fighter pilots, the VIII FC veterans openly discuss their secrets to success, and survival in the deadly skies over occupied Europe. Exactly half of those pilots who contributed to The Long Reach subsequently achieved ace status.
Book Synopsis VIII Fighter Command at War by : Michael O'Leary
Download or read book VIII Fighter Command at War written by Michael O'Leary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944. The detailed document chronicled the experiences of 24 pilots who had seen extensive service in the frontline escorting B-17s and B-24s on daylight raids deep into Germany. Briefed to provide a candid report on combat flying that could be used as a teaching 'manual' for potential fighter pilots, the VIII FC veterans openly discuss their secrets to success, and survival in the deadly skies over occupied Europe. Exactly half of those pilots who contributed to The Long Reach subsequently achieved ace status.
Book Synopsis VIII Fighter Command at War by : Michael O'Leary
Download or read book VIII Fighter Command at War written by Michael O'Leary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944. The detailed document chronicled the experiences of 24 pilots who had seen extensive service in the frontline escorting B-17s and B-24s on daylight raids deep into Germany. Briefed to provide a candid report on combat flying that could be used as a teaching 'manual' for potential fighter pilots, the VIII FC veterans openly discuss their secrets to success, and survival in the deadly skies over occupied Europe. Exactly half of those pilots who contributed to The Long Reach subsequently achieved ace status.
Book Synopsis Clean Sweep by : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Download or read book Clean Sweep written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid narrative history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany. On August 7, 1942, two events of major military importance occurred on separate sides of the planet. In the South Pacific, the United States went on the offensive, landing the First Marine Division at Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of the new Eighth Air Force's 97th Bombardment Group bombed the Rouen–Sotteville railroad marshalling yards in France. While the mission was small, the aerial struggle that began that day would ultimately cost the United States more men killed and wounded by the end of the war in Europe than the Marines would lose in the Pacific War. Clean Sweep is the story of the creation, development and operation of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command and the battle to establish daylight air superiority over the Luftwaffe so that the invasion of Europe could be successful. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has had a lifelong interest in the history of the fighter force that defeated the Luftwaffe over Germany. He has collected many first-hand accounts from participants over the past 50 years, getting to know pilots such as the legendary “Hub” Zemke, Don Blakeslee and Chuck Yeager, as well as meeting and interviewing leading Luftwaffe pilots Adolf Galland, Gunther Rall and Walter “Count Punski” Krupinski. This story is told through accounts gathered from both sides.
Book Synopsis Tactics & Techniques Developed by VIII Fighter Command by : United States. Army Air Forces. Evaluation Board. Analysis Section
Download or read book Tactics & Techniques Developed by VIII Fighter Command written by United States. Army Air Forces. Evaluation Board. Analysis Section and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General description of the collection: This collection consists of a negative photostat of a report entitled, "Tactics & techniques developed by VIII Fighter Command" prepared by the Analysis Section, Army Air Forces Evaluation Board. The original report was prepared on 27 October 1944 as "a consideration of tactics and techniques as developed by VIII Fighter Command, Eighth Air Force." The report is divided into three sections. The first section describes the performance characteristics of types of fighters used by the VIII Fighter Command pilots and by their German opponents. The second section describes the tactics of fighter escorts for bombing runs, and the third section describes the strafing techniques of escort fighters. All three sections include excerpts of interviews with U.S. fighter pilots from the VIII Fighter Command. The report also contains charts and graphs, photographs (negative photostats) of planes and photographs of strafing runs taken from the 16mm film reels carried in the noses of VIII Fighter Command planes. Captured German military documents and interviews with German prisoners of war provide the enemy's point of view on the American's tactics.
Book Synopsis Clean Sweep by : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Download or read book Clean Sweep written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid narrative history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany. On August 7, 1942, two events of major military importance occurred on separate sides of the planet. In the South Pacific, the United States went on the offensive, landing the First Marine Division at Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of the new Eighth Air Force's 97th Bombardment Group bombed the Rouen–Sotteville railroad marshalling yards in France. While the mission was small, the aerial struggle that began that day would ultimately cost the United States more men killed and wounded by the end of the war in Europe than the Marines would lose in the Pacific War. Clean Sweep is the story of the creation, development and operation of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command and the battle to establish daylight air superiority over the Luftwaffe so that the invasion of Europe could be successful. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has had a lifelong interest in the history of the fighter force that defeated the Luftwaffe over Germany. He has collected many first-hand accounts from participants over the past 50 years, getting to know pilots such as the legendary “Hub” Zemke, Don Blakeslee and Chuck Yeager, as well as meeting and interviewing leading Luftwaffe pilots Adolf Galland, Gunther Rall and Walter “Count Punski” Krupinski. This story is told through accounts gathered from both sides.
Book Synopsis Operations Analysis in the United States Army Eighth Air Force in World War II by : Charles W. McArthur
Download or read book Operations Analysis in the United States Army Eighth Air Force in World War II written by Charles W. McArthur and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operations research grew out of the application of the scientific method to certain problems of war during World War II. This book tells the story of how operations research became an important activity in the Eighth Air Force. It emphasizes the people involved in these historical events, rather than the technical matters with which they dealt.
Book Synopsis The Mighty Eighth by : Roger A. Freeman
Download or read book The Mighty Eighth written by Roger A. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Down to Earth: Fighter Attack on Ground Targets by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book Down to Earth: Fighter Attack on Ground Targets written by Ray Merriam and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Reprint 22. (January 2013). American fighter pilots of the Eighth Air Force provide their rules for conducting ground attack operations against the enemy. There was much more to ground attack than flying low and shooting up anything and everything, and these pilots tell how they did it in their own words. An extremely rare manual published in August 1944, just when ground attack was becoming a major factor in the war across the European continent. Original copies are very scarce; a photocopy of this manual was acquired back in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, that copy was also a photocopy of a photocopy of an original and in the edition published several years ago the photographs were of very poor quality. In June 2001 a customer ordered a copy of that edition because he was looking for information on the unit his grandfather flew with during the war, a P-47 pilot with the 353rd Fighter Group, who is one of the pilots who contributed to this manual. The colonel was willing to loan his original for copying and also an original copy of "The Long Reach," a similar work about fighter escort operations (this second work is also now available in this reprint series). Originally published 30 August 1944 by VIII Fighter Command. 76 photos, 1 drawing, 1 diagram.
Book Synopsis Air Force Combat Units of World War II by : Maurer Maurer
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:
Book Synopsis ‘Down to Earth' Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force by : William N Hess
Download or read book ‘Down to Earth' Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force written by William N Hess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book. His official endorsement reveals just how important a document Down to Earth was to the teaching of tyro fighter pilots heading for action in the ETO. More leading aces were lost to flak whilst ground strafing than to German fighters. In this book William Hess has included biographies of all the pilots that originally contributed to this work back in 1943-44.
Book Synopsis Combat Squadrons of the Air Force; World War II. by : United States. USAF Historical Division
Download or read book Combat Squadrons of the Air Force; World War II. written by United States. USAF Historical Division and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of squadron histories has been prepared by the USAF Historical Division to complement the Division's book, Air Force Combat Units of World War II. The 1,226 units covered by this volume are the combat (tactical) squadrons that were active between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945. Each squadron is traced from its beginning through 5 March 1963, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the 1st Aero (later Bombardment) Squadron, the first Army unit to be equipped with aircraft for tactical operations. For each squadron there is a statement of the official lineage and data on the unit's assignments, stations, aircraft and missiles, operations, service streamers, campaign participation, decorations, and emblem.
Book Synopsis An Ace of the Eighth by : Norman J. Fortier
Download or read book An Ace of the Eighth written by Norman J. Fortier and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR A FIGHTER PILOT IN THE MIGHTY EIGHTH, DEATH WAS ALWAYS A HEARTBEAT AWAY. When the skies of Europe blazed with the fiercest air battles in history, fighter pilots like Norman “Bud” Fortier were in the thick of it, flying four hundred miles an hour at thirty thousand feet, dodging flak and dueling with Nazi aces. In their role as “escorts” to Flying Fortresses and Liberators, the fighter squadrons’ ability to blast enemy aircraft from the sky was key to the success of pinpoint bombing raids on German oil refineries, communication and supply lines, and other crucial targets. Flying in formation with the bomber stream, Fortier and the rest of his squadron helped develop dive-bombing and strafing tactics for the Thunderbolts and Mustangs. As the war progressed, fighter squadrons began to carry out their own bombing missions. From blasting V-1 missile sites along France’s “rocket coast” and the hell-torn action of D day to the critical attacks on the Ruhr Valley and massive daylight raids on German industrial targets, Fortier was part of the Allies’ bitter struggle to bring the Nazi war machine to a halt. In describing his own hundred-plus missions and by including the accounts of fellow fighter pilots, Fortier recaptures the excitement and fiery terror of the world’s most dangerous cat-and-mouse game.
Book Synopsis To Defeat the Few by : Douglas C. Dildy
Download or read book To Defeat the Few written by Douglas C. Dildy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only part of the story. The results of an air campaign cannot be measured in terms of territory captured, cities occupied or armies defeated, routed or annihilated. Successful air campaigns are those that achieve their intended aims or stated objectives. Victory in the Battle of Britain was determined by whether the Luftwaffe achieved its objectives. The Luftwaffe, of course, did not, and this detailed and rigorous study explains why. Analysing the battle in its entirety in the context of what it was – history's first independent offensive counter-air campaign against the world's first integrated air defence system – Douglas C. Dildy and Paul F. Crickmore set out to re-examine this remarkable conflict. Presenting the events of the Battle of Britain in the context of the Luftwaffe's campaign and RAF Fighter Command's battles against it, this title is a new and innovative history of the battle that kept alive the Allies' chances of defeating Nazi Germany.
Book Synopsis The Mighty Eighth in WWII: A Memoir by : J. Kemp McLaughlin USAFR (Ret.)
Download or read book The Mighty Eighth in WWII: A Memoir written by J. Kemp McLaughlin USAFR (Ret.) and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ‘Twelve to One’ V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific by : Tony Holmes
Download or read book ‘Twelve to One’ V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific written by Tony Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the experiences of 107 elite American aces in combat against the Japanese. The highest scoring US pilots of World War 2 fought against the Japanese Army Air Force and Imperial Japanese Navy over the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines. Flying P-38s and P-47s, men such as Dick Bong and Thomas McGuire won the Medal of Honor for their successes in combat in 1943-45. 'Twelve to One' is a rare document that details the 'tricks of the trade' employed by these men. This volume also includes biographies of the men whose tips for aerial combat make up the text, and the V Fighter Command Manual.
Book Synopsis The Long Reach: Deep Fighter Escort Tactics by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book The Long Reach: Deep Fighter Escort Tactics written by Ray Merriam and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Reprint 21. First Reprint Edition (January 2013). In The Long Reach: Deep Fighter Escort Tactics by VIII Fighter Command, American fighter pilots of the Eighth Air Force provide their rules, in their own words, for conducting deep fighter escort operations accompanying American bomber formations over Europe. This extremely rare manual was published in May 1944, when deep fighter escort had become a major factor in the skies over Europe. The interior pages are facsimile copies of the original's pages. 59 photos.
