Military Aviation History
epub |eng | 2019-03-17 | Author:David Greentree & Peter Dennis

The gliders were late in arriving, with seven lost on the way; 26 landed at LZ L and two elsewhere. The German reaction was immediate. A Coy suffered the most, ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-28 | Author:Mike Morgan [Morgan, Mike]

Once inside we realised the vast size of the camp and I’ll never forget my first sight of the inmates. Ostensibly they were living human beings, but to me the ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barrett Tillman

Meanwhile, Herman Kossler had problems of his own. After firing, Cavalla went deep with full left rudder, changing course and slowing for silent running. Approaching test depth of three hundred ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Dye, Peter

18 STRENGTHENING MALAYA’S DEFENSES 1941 Brooke-Popham lost little time in moving Malaya to a war footing, starting with a two-day desk-based exercise designed to shake down the headquarters and test ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:George Beurling

HE WENT DOWN VERTICALLY—NOBODY SAW HIM HIT THE DECK, SO I WAS CREDITED WITH A DAMAGED Almost as soon as we were airborne the orders came over the RT: “Gain ...
( Category: World War II March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Cowie, Ian [Cowie, Ian]

Credit: Cdanielsiv/Wikipedia A Close Shave! Once upon a time I used to fly single-seat, multi-role jet fighters that hovered. It was a tremendously exciting, highly competitive and demanding business. Life ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Mason, Herbert Molloy [Mason, Herbert Molloy]

11 — OPERATION MAGIC FIRE We bombed it, and bombed it and bombed it, and buena why not? — Nationalist staff officer Wever was replaced by Major General Albert Kesselring, ...
( Category: Aviation History March 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:William F. Trimble

McCain’s three carrier groups came together as scheduled early on the morning of the third. Refueling and transfer of aircraft from Jasper Acuff’s TG-30.8 oilers and escort carriers went smoothly ...
( Category: Military March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Kevin Wilson

10 Escape Lines in the Railway Desert The Transportation Plan, which would be judged to be one of Bomber Command’s greatest achievements, had no greater critic than the very head ...
( Category: Architecture March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-06 | Author:Gail Halvorsen [Неизв.]

Some New York children receiving instructions on how it is done, September 1948. On the next flight the weather forecast for Tempelhof was for worse-than-usual conditions. “Don’t be surprised if ...
( Category: World War II March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-01 | Author:Philip Kaplan

“Flying VFR [visual flight rules] most of the time, we were free to drop down and check the progress on a new dam and guess at the shape of the ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Tom Docherty

Christmas 1953. L to R: Johnny Green, Sandy Burns, Dicky Collins, Alan Tunaley, Barry Fletcher, Dave Clouting and Smokey Hymes. (72 Sqn) AOC’s inspection at Church Fenton in April 1954. ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Helmut Mahlke

I submitted a full report on the débâcle to our Geschwaderkommodore and requested that he take the matter up with Jafü 2, stressing the fact that this was no way ...
( Category: History March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John B. Lundstrom [Lundstrom, John B.]

Also at medium altitude, VF-42’s Duran Mattson (Brassfield’s wingman in “Wildcat Orange”) found himself tangling with the agile Zeros in similar peril and frustration. After diving away from the first ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Joshua Levine [Joshua Levine]

8 Over the Top Bernard Rice was an officer with 8 Squadron who wrote a series of vivid letters home to his father in 1916 and 1917. In one undated ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 3,2020 )