Military Aviation History
epub |eng | 2007-03-28 | Author:Peter Caygill [Caygill, Peter]

The first Spitfire XII was delivered to 41 Squadron at the end of February 1943 and full establishment had been reached by the end of March. During the month the ...
( Category: Miniatures March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-18 | Author:Graham M. Simons

Hotel marketing was to be undertaken throughout North America by an organisation built up from a 51% holding in a New York agency, the Transair Marketing Development Corporation, into full ...
( Category: Aviation March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew C. A. Jampoler [Jampoler, Andrew C. A]

Crew 6 in front of PD-6 in September 1978 at Moffett Field. Left to right: PO 3d Class Howie Moore, PO 3d Class Gene Cummings, PO 3d Class Jim Smith, ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Frederick M. Trapnell Jr. [Trapnell Jr., Frederick M.; Tibbitts, Dana Trapnell]

CHAPTER 13 THE CHALLENGE, 1946 Trap’s ideas about full-spectrum testing of each airplane within its operating environment had taken hold since his time at Anacostia early in the decade, when ...
( Category: Military March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Robert L. Richardson [Richardson, Robert L.]

Capt. Richard Decker, upon receipt of the Distinguished Flying Cross. National Archives The melee above Decker continued, with the P-38s continuing to engage the enemy interceptors and protecting the bomber ...
( Category: World War II March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clayton K. S. Chun

STRIKING THE HEART OF THE ENEMY During die cruise towards Japan, Doolittle’s crews had been given specific primary and secondary targets for the raid. The B-25s were also organized into ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Marston, Robert;

CHAPTER 10 THE FALKLANDS SEA HARRIER When Argentina invaded the Falklands in 1982, the RN’s Sea Harrier force was still building up to full strength. Some RN pilots had flown ...
( Category: Military March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Jim Winchester [Winchester, Jim]

Post war It is generally accepted that fifty-three to fifty-five Israeli Skyhawks were lost in the Yom Kippur War. Many of the losses were caused by infrared-guided SA-7 SAMs. The ...
( Category: Aviation March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Robert Dixon [Dixon, Robert]

Tuesday, November 21st Joe Kayll flew Radcliffe’s machine out of the ploughed field in the morning. ‘A’ Flight were released today and Vick, Kayll, Gore, Irving, Blackadder—Dixon went into Lille ...
( Category: World War II March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Graham Simons

( Category: Pictorial March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-11 | Author:Ralph F. Wetterhahn

17 * * * The Philippines Falls We’re the battling bastards of Bataan No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam No Aunts, no uncles, no nephews, no nieces No pills, ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Major Jon M. Sutterfield USAF

Transportation Knerr tried to address airlift problems, which he had foreseen, with distribution and control of airlifted supplies by trying to secure dedicated airlift he had apparently been promised. In ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-18 | Author:Pat Cunningham [Cunningham, Pat]

Before our tour finished, however, there was one piece of lightish relief during a fighter-affiliation exercise that had a strong element of the hush-hush. Certainly, only navigator Dave Brewster and ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Wilson

Some crews of 156 Pathfinder Sqn were acting as backers-up in the third and fourth waves of the six-wave attack and they reported a carpet of fire below dense smoke ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 14,2020 )
epub | | 2016-08-10 | Author:George Van Deurs [Неизв.]

12. V. D. Herbster’s report of the accident to the Navy hydroaeroplane B-2. After Towers had been rescued, Herbster took command of the camp, got Chevalier and Dortch towed back ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 13,2020 )