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Vought Sb2u Vindicator

Author : Steve Ginter
Publisher : Ginter Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999388402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Vought Sb2u Vindicator written by Steve Ginter and published by Ginter Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vought SB2U Vindicator Scout Bomber was the Navy's second production carrier monoplane to fly after the Douglas TBD and for a time was the fastest aircraft in the Navy's inventory. The extremely clean aircraft was a unique blend of the old stick-and-rudder fabric covered construction and that of the new all-metal monoplanes that followed. About half the aircraft was metal skined and half fabric covered and each fuselage structure was individually hand made from steel tubing. The SB2U was built in three models. The very simular SB2U-1 and SB2U-2 for the US Navy, and the long range SB2U-3 for the Marines. Aircraft were also supplied to France and the United Kingdom and are covered in the book. Equipped with folding wings and capable of carrying a 1,000 lb bomb, they were in service from 1938 to 1943. By the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, the Navy Vindicators had all been assigned to the Atlantic fleet, but the Marine SB2U-3 were on the East Coast and at Pearl Harbor and aboard the Lexington for delivery to Midway. The VMSB-241 Vindicators at Midway saw the planes only combat on 4-to-6 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway and Henderson Field was named after the squadron Commanding Officer who lost his life during the squadron's attack on the Japanese fleet on 4 June. Major Hendersons replacement Major Norris was also lost on 4 June during the squadron's second attack. On 5 June, Captain Fleming was also lost during his attack on the cruiser Mikumo, for which he received the Medal of Honor for his actions. This book has extensive first person narrative from Vought test pilots and USN/USMC pilots as well as the French V-156-F commander gathered by Joe Weathers in 1966 through 1974 when their minds were still sharp and their memories strong. All of which are gone today. A truly interesting read.

The Dakota Hunter

Author : Hans Wiesman
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612002595
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Dakota Hunter written by Hans Wiesman and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.

Dauntless Marine

Author : Alexander S. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Dauntless Marine written by Alexander S. White and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Incredible Victory

Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453238476
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Incredible Victory written by Walter Lord and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “remarkable” New York Times bestseller about the battle in the Pacific that turned the tide of World War II—from the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk (Los Angeles Times). On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no battle experience. But because their codebreakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own. Over two days of savage battle, American sailors and pilots broke the spine of the Japanese war machine. The United States prevailed against momentous odds; never again did Japan advance. In stunning detail, Walter Lord, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Day of Infamy and A Night to Remember, tells the story of one of the greatest upsets in naval history. “Graphic and realistic . . . not an impersonalized account of moves on the chessboard of war, [but] a story of individual people facing crucial problems.” —The New York Times

Fire and Fury

Author : Randall Hansen
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307372383
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Fire and Fury written by Randall Hansen and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.

Fighting Cockpits

Author : Donald Nijboer
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760349568
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Cockpits written by Donald Nijboer and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump into the cockpits of fighter aircraft from WWI to modern day. Incredible photography of the MiG, Messerschmitt, Tomcat, and many more.

Making Vintage Aircraft in Wood

Author : Joe B. Hicks
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780806972121
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Making Vintage Aircraft in Wood written by Joe B. Hicks and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions for making various types of model aircraft including the L'Entreprenant (p.7) -- Wright Flyer (p.9) -- Avro 504 (p.14) -- Handley Page 0/400 (p.18) -- Curtiss R-6 (p.22) -- Naval Aircraft Factory F-5L (p.25) -- Spad S.VII (p.28) -- DH-4 Liberty Plane (p.32) -- Sopwith Camel (p.32) -- Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5a (p.38) -- Fokker Dr. I Triplane (p.41) -- Dornier Flying Boat (p.44) -- Curtiss P-6 Hawk (p.48) -- Ford Tri-Motor (p.51) -- Boeing P-12 (p.54) -- Curtiss F8C Helldiver (p.56) -- Bristol Bulldog (p.59) -- Douglas 0-46 (p.62) -- Goodyear Zeppelin (p.65) -- Boeing P-26 Peashooter (p.68) -- Consolidated PBY-5A Cataline (p.70) -- Grumman J2F Duck (p.73) -- Swordfish (p.76) -- B-17 Flying Fortress (p.79) -- Douglas C-47 Skytrain (p.82) -- Vought SB2U Vindicator (p.84) -- P-40 Warhawk (p.89).

Hidden Warbirds

Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760344094
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Warbirds written by Nicholas A. Veronico and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronico explores the romantic era of World War II warbirds and the stories of some of its most famous wrecks, including the "Swamp Ghost" (a B-17E which crashed in New Guinea in the early days of World War II and which was only recently recovered), and "Glacier Girl" (a P-38, part of "The Lost Squadron," which crashed in a large ice sheet in Greenland in 1942). Throughout, Veronico provides a history of the aircraft, as well as the unique story behind each discovery and recovery with ample illustrations.

Marine Corps Aviation

Author : Edward C. Johnson
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781780396255
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Marine Corps Aviation written by Edward C. Johnson and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flying Colours

Author : William Green
Publisher : Salamander Books
ISBN 13 : 9780861019441
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Flying Colours written by William Green and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military aircraft have been variously daubed, cunningly camouflaged, boastfully personalized or otherwise extravagantly coloured since they first took to the air over 80 years ago. Flying Colours is a survey of this fascinating scene.

The Battles of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942 and Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942

Author : Henry V. Poor
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Battles of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942 and Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942 written by Henry V. Poor and published by Naval Historical Center. This book was released on 1943 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942

Author : Winston B. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942 written by Winston B. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Combat Aircraft of the World

Author : Jean Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780718105648
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Combat Aircraft of the World written by Jean Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scale Aircraft Drawings

Author : Peter M Bowers
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015318403
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Scale Aircraft Drawings written by Peter M Bowers and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942

Author : Leonard Ware
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942 written by Leonard Ware and published by Naval Historical Center. This book was released on 1943 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Tex" Hill

Author : David Lee Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885354150
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book "Tex" Hill written by David Lee Hill and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tex Hill's autobiography-memoir of his tour with the flying tigers, and their gallant air defense of Burma and China during WW II. This book will become one of the epic air and ground battle stories of WW II."

The Hamlyn Concise Guide to British Aircraft of World War II

Author : David Mondey
Publisher : Bounty Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785813620
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The Hamlyn Concise Guide to British Aircraft of World War II written by David Mondey and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a useful guide to the aircraft manufactured in Britain during WWII, including such fighters as Spitfire, Hurricane, and Tempest; bombers such as Blenheim, Halifax, and Wellington; and a miscellany of other aircraft such as Sunderland, Anson, Tiger Moth, and Austers.