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Author : Ricahrd Dann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897473477
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (734 download)
Download or read book Walk Around F4F Wildcat written by Ricahrd Dann and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Glidden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782001921
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Modelling the F4F Wildcat written by Mark Glidden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The F4F Wildcat was an aircraft of the type of which legends are made. Without the handling performance that made the Japanese Zero so famous, it was well regarded for its ruggedness and firepower and, in the hands of a skilled pilot who understood both its strengths and weaknesses, it was capable of holding its own against the best that its opponents had to offer. This book details projects that encompass four variants of the F4 Wildcat. As they were supplied to a number of air forces during the war, including the RAF, there is a wide range of markings available to modellers which are also dealt with in detail. Covering a range of modelling abilities from a beginner's first build to an expert scratch-building extras, this book is illustrated with full-colour step-by-step photographs.
Author : G. Pat Macha
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625857292
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County written by G. Pat Macha and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear weather and a natural harbor made San Diego an early aviation hub, but success in flight came with devastating tragedies. The remains of more than four hundred aircrafts lie scattered across the county's deserts and mountains. Experts estimate that dozens more are on the ocean floor off the coast. In 1922, army pilot Charles F. Webber's DeHavilland biplane went missing over Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. In 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 178 collided midair over San Diego and crashed in the residential North Park neighborhood, claiming the lives of 144 people in what was the worst airline disaster of the era. Author and aircraft accident research specialist G. Pat Macha recounts these and other stories of astonishing survival, heroism and heartbreaking fatality.
Author : Dennis R Letourneau
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511791
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Operation KE written by Dennis R Letourneau and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943 —a topic which has hitherto received very little attention. Operation KE was successful largely because Japanese strategic planning and tactical execution was basically sound. The traditional view holds that the Japanese got away with the initiative largely because the Americans let them; the US Pacific high command felt it was not worth the effort to try and stop them. Letourneau contends that this was not entirely the case. He argues that the Cactus Air Force and Guadalcanal-based naval units did their best to disrupt the evacuation, still believing that the Tokyo Express was bringing reinforcements and supplies to the 17th Army. Other US forces in the South Pacific did make a half-hearted and questionably-executed attempt to stop the Japanese, but were bluffed into adopting a ""wait-and-see"" posture. Operation KE focuses on the air war fought between the Cactus and US 13th Air Forces on the one hand and the Japanese Navy and Army Air Forces on the other, from mid-December, 1942 to mid-February, 1943. The book scrutinizes the US air strikes against the six KE-related Tokyo Express destroyer runs, plus related air strikes against the Japanese merchant marine, as well as air and naval base-suppression missions undertaken by both sides, to determine what actually happened in order to analyze why the Japanese evacuation succeeded and why Cactus failed to stop it. Background chapters attempt to assess the respective states of readiness of the Japanese and US air arms in the South Pacific to support on the one hand and counter on the other the execution of Operation KE. The central portion of the book narrates in some detail what actually occurred in the air and at sea -—including air strikes, fighter sweeps, base suppression missions, and naval sorties -—during the crucial prelude to and the actual playing out of the interrelated events that comprised the evacuation operation. Concluding chapters analyze, on both strategic and tactical levels, the Japanese planning and execution of Operation KE, and Cactus' initiatives to interdict KE's successful prosecution. The authors conclude that both the Japanese and the American states of readiness on the eve of Operation KE suffered in such matters as optimizing both resources and operating procedures, and combating a hostile environment. Consequently, both combatants were somewhat handicapped in their abilities respectively to carry out and contest Operation KE. The author contends that the Japanese developed a reasonably sound strategy that exploited those methods and tools of war then in use in the South Pacific; to achieve success, they maximized their own strengths while taking advantage of their adversary's limitations. Contrary to the traditional view, the authors are of the opinion that Japanese utilization of their newly-built airstrip at Munda in the Central Solomons played an important role in the success of Operation KE, which was in keeping with the long-range intention of developing Munda and Vila airstrips as major forward airbases to defend against any Allied push toward Rabaul through the Solomons. The U.S., on the other hand, by consistently misreading Japanese intent regarding Operation KE and pursuing a cautious offensive strategy, blunted the tactical impact of their initiatives to counter the evacuation. Several imprudent tactical decisions and a misallocation of resources further diluted the strength of US efforts."
Author : Brian Criner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782001913
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Modelling the Mitsubishi A6M Zero written by Brian Criner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A6M Rei Shiki Sento Ki (meaning Type Zero fighter) was the result of an order by the Imperial Japanese Navy for a low-wing monoplane with superior speed, range, climbing powers, and manoeuvrability. It famously served as a fighter escort during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and ended the war as the kamikaze plane of choice. This book provides a detailed guide to modelling this popular aircraft across a variety of scales, and features an A6M2-N Rufe, a kamikaze A6M5c, an A6M2 model 21, and a captured A6M5b of TAIC #7, as well as a gallery and walkaround section.
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Fighters and Bombers of World War II written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN 13 : 0890246963
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Classic Combat Aircraft written by and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to build, modify, detail, paint and weather legendary aircraft from the experts found in FineScale Modeler magazine. The 18 projects feature classic Allied and Axis that include Gabby's Last Jug, a D-Day Spitfire, an American Mosquito, and a late-war Messerschmitt Bf 109.
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book American Warplanes of WWII written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brett Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780964854
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Modelling the F4U Corsair written by Brett Green and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The F4U Corsair's combat career was longer than that of almost any other World War II fighter aircraft. Its success led to its service around the globe, and it was employed by the US Navy, British Fleet Air Arm and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. After the war, the Corsair also served with the French Navy, in various Latin American Air Forces, and with forces fighting in Korea. This book showcases seven separate Corsair variants modelled across 1/32, 1/48 and 1/72 scales. Among the aircraft featured are an F4U-1 Birdcage, an F4U-1A from VF-17 'Jolly Rogers', a Fleet Air Arm Corsair Mk.II, a Korean War F4U-4 and an F4U-7 French Corsair.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493043951
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories written by Alan Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Lone Star State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Alan Brown shines a light in the dark corners of Texas and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From tales of haunted hotels like the Von Minden and The Beckham, to a creek where a woman’s screams can still be heard to this day, and the shadowy figures still stalking the Alamo, these stories of strange occurrences will keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
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Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 0789260107
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Pacific War Stories: In the Words of Those Who Survived written by and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific—told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service. In this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory of World War II in the Pacific, the history of the War in the Pacific comes vividly to life in the words of those who witnessed it first hand. The editors create for the reader, as the veterans themselves recall it, what that war was like—how it looked, felt, smelled, and sounded. The stories collected here are a unique portrayal of the mundane, exotic, boring, terrifying, life-altering events that made up their wartime experiences in World War II in the Pacific, a war fought on countless far-flung islands over an area that constitutes about one-third of the globe. What the veterans saw and lived through has stayed with them their entire lives, and much of it comes to the surface again through their vivid memories. This is an important book for military buffs as well as for the survivors of World War II and their families. The narratives, grouped into fifteen thematic, chronologically arranged chapters, are stirring, first-hand accounts, from front-line combat at the epicenter of violence and death to restless, weary boredom on rear area islands thousands of miles from the fighting. While their experiences differed, all were changed by what happened to them in the Pacific. These are not the stories of sweeping strategies or bold moves by generals and admirals. Instead, we hear from men and women on the lower rungs, including ordinary seamen on vessels that encountered Japanese warships and planes and sometimes came out second best, rank-and-file Marines who were in amtracs churning toward bullet-swept tropical beaches and saw their buddies killed beside them, and astounded eyewitnesses to the war’s sudden start on December 7, 1941.
Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982045
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Freedom's Forge written by Arthur Herman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal Freedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General Motors automobile magnate William “Big Bill” Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the “arsenal of democracy” that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II. Drafting top talent from companies like Chrysler, Republic Steel, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, and Frigidaire, Knudsen and Kaiser turned auto plants into aircraft factories and civilian assembly lines into fountains of munitions. In four short years they transformed America’s army from a hollow shell into a truly global force, laying the foundations for the country’s rise as an economic as well as military superpower. Freedom’s Forge vividly re-creates American industry’s finest hour, when the nation’s business elites put aside their pursuit of profits and set about saving the world. Praise for Freedom’s Forge “A rarely told industrial saga, rich with particulars of the growing pains and eventual triumphs of American industry . . . Arthur Herman has set out to right an injustice: the loss, down history’s memory hole, of the epic achievements of American business in helping the United States and its allies win World War II.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . It’s not often that a historian comes up with a fresh approach to an absolutely critical element of the Allied victory in World War II, but Pulitzer finalist Herman . . . has done just that.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A compulsively readable tribute to ‘the miracle of mass production.’ ”—Publishers Weekly “The production statistics cited by Mr. Herman . . . astound.”—The Economist “[A] fantastic book.”—Forbes “Freedom’s Forge is the story of how the ingenuity and energy of the American private sector was turned loose to equip the finest military force on the face of the earth. In an era of gathering threats and shrinking defense budgets, it is a timely lesson told by one of the great historians of our time.”—Donald Rumsfeld
Author : Jim Doyle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612342191
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Flying Through Time written by Jim Doyle and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what it would be like to talk and fly with the men who flew the airplanes of World War II. What was in their minds as they made their first solos? And what was air combat like? Flying Through Time is the closest many of us will come to understanding what it was like to be a WWII aviator.Tens of thousands of AmericaOCOs pilots during World War II trained in the Boeing Stearman biplane. For most, it was their first airplane in a series of larger, faster, and more dangerous aircraft that they used to fight the war. The pilots would never forget their first flights in a Stearman and the adventures that followed. Jim Doyle, owner of a restored 1941 Stearman, retraced the wartime journeys of his plane, crossing the country twice; flying over California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; and touching down at each of the eight bases at which it served. Flying Through Time is the story of DoyleOCOs challenging flight and of the uncertainties of piloting a sixty-year-old biplane almost 8,000 miles. His experiences meeting, talking, and flying with the men who flew the legendary Stearman paint a vivid picture of the intense, emotion-filled days of World War II. The pilotsOCO recollections, refreshed for many when they took the controls of DoyleOCOs plane, are woven throughout the narrative of his trip. These anecdotes, and new information from an archive discovered during the flight, tell of fears, courage, humor, and the sheer adventure of the events that owned the veteransOCO youth. This is seat-of-the-pants flying at its most thrilling, recalling a time when ordinary young Americans were called upon to be heroes."
Author : Philip A. St. John
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781563112966
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Battle for Leyte Gulf - Navy - WWII written by Philip A. St. John and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Hammel
Publisher : Daniel Hammel
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Til The Last Bugle Call written by Eric Hammel and published by Daniel Hammel. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Til the Last Bugle Call A Novel of U.S. Marines On Guadalcanal Eric Hammel Just out of high school, Al Rosen, a seventeen-year-old Philadelphian, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in order to sidestep the pitfalls of recent orphanhood. By August 1942, after four years in uniform, Corporal Rosen was leading a light machine gun squad when fate chose him to become the first American servicemen to fire shots in the Guadalcanal Campaign, America’s first offensive in World War II. Then, for six terrible months of alternating hot combat action and stretches of restive inactivity, Rosen and his fellow Marines in Company B confronted—and learned how to overcome—fear and terror and sorrow and a host of life’s other harshest tests and their many lessons. They learned to stand tall, to serve proudly, to resist fiercely, and to attack mercilessly. Some, like Rosen, by dint of aptitude and courage, advanced in rank and status. Others fell by the wayside to strange and terrible tropical diseases, to the mind-numbing heat and humidity, to bone weariness, to malnourishment, to chance, to their own human failings. Til the Last Bugle Call is a fictional yet deadly accurate portrait of American fighting men, of U.S. Marines, from the earliest days of their Pacific War confrontation with Japan’s victorious legions, in a battle and a war none of them really knew how to fight. Eric Hammel, author of fifty non-fiction military history books, five of them covering all facets of the Guadalcanal Campaign, precisely captures the innocence of these young men at the cutting edge of the early Pacific War, then follows them as they overcome immense obstacles on their way to becoming confident combat veterans ready to take on new challenges farther along the bloody road to victory.
Author : Mark Lewis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146913246X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Path of a Ghost written by Mark Lewis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the turn of the 20th century the leadership of Imperial Japan looked at ways to increase the size and economic power of the Empire. These ideals were also in the forefront of the competing European nations and America. Quickly realizing their military forces would require substantial enlargement to apply “adequate political pressure” the Japanese government undertook a major directional change in policy. The Japanese navy and air force were enlarged and reorganized along European lines. These expansionist policies soon raised the ire of the competing nations. Japan had always been looked down upon as a second class nation and this attitude stung many young Japanese officers and bureaucrats into action. By the end of the First World War Japan had already obtained overseas bases in the Pacific as war reparations. The IJA and IJN sought to improve these bases for a future conflict with other nations. Path of a Ghost primarily looks at the lives of three young men serving the Empire. Each man would follow his own path, along the way achieving success in his chosen field of participation. Just before the end of the Second World War the paths of all three men would cross. Post war political plotting and subversive actions lead Japan down an unenviable path where foreign soldiers control part of Japan. The tensions between nations boil over leading to a final battle that would forever affect world politics. This book, second in a series, follows on from Project Z: air war japan 1946.
Author : Kostya Kennedy
Publisher : Time Inc Home Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1603201777
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book 56 written by Kostya Kennedy and published by Time Inc Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Joe DiMaggio's streak during the summer of 1941 and how it found its way into countless lives.
