Military Aviation History
epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Nicholas A. Veronico [Veronico, Nicholas A.]

A Sikorsky S-92 from Construction Helicopters lifted the center section of the Sandbar Mitchell and transported it to the airport at Fort Wainwright. The lift and flight took a little ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:Arthur Gould Lee

1. Herbert Wilcox, afterwards the well-known film producer. 1. Lieutenant K. W. McDonald died of wounds inflicted by Leutnant Mohicke, of Jasta 11. Lieutenant S. W. Williams was shot down ...
( Category: World War I March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-20 | Author:Musgrove, Frank; [Musgrove, Frank;]

The former pupils of the secondary grammar schools, with their Matric and perhaps HSC, rose magnificently, at times heroically, to their country’s challenge. The challenge called for great technical skill ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-12 | Author:Philip D. Caine [Caine, Philip D.]

All of these issues took time to resolve, hut by early Septem- her all was in readiness and transfers began. For Lee, as for most of the other members of ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:Martin Bowman

‘Odd, unusual and not very wholesome! One of the heavy boys used to get the whole squadron to use his Elsan and then he’d make one bombing run - then ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Lundstrom, John B.

15 OCTOBER Ashore Before dawn Vandegrift radioed Ghormley that no landings had indeed occurred at Lunga. However, as dawn broke six transports had anchored “brazen and bold”31 about 15 miles ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-02-02 | Author:Boyne, Walter J [Boyne, Walter J]

Air Power in the Mediterranean Campaigns Ironically, as the homeland of the most famous of air-power philosophers, Italy had within its power the ability to use air power to influence ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-21 | Author:Stuart Hadaway [Hadaway, Stuart]

By the end of December it was beginning to look as if the constraints placed on travelling by the civil war would not matter. Preliminary searches showed that the behaviour ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

The Ju-52 was the workhorse of the Luftwaffe for logistics transport and logistics missions. The aircraft was easy to maintain and carried a reasonable payload. It could take great punishment, ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Peter Bodle & Tony [Bodle, Peter]

Tony joined Course 99, 232 OCU Marham and resumed his Nav/Plotter seat in a Victor tanker on 3 February 1972. The pattern of his life was the same as the ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Roger Annett

CHAPTER 8 Air Resupply THE WORLD’S FIRST AIR-DROP In December 1915, troops of the British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force found themselves under siege. Commanded by General Sir Charles Townshend, they had ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Chris Everitt & Martin Middlebrook [Everitt, Chris]

28 (a and b). Precision bombing. The V-2 rocket assembly hall and the workers’ housing area at Peenemünde. Bomber Command’s losses were 40 aircraft – 23 Lancasters, 15 Halifaxes and ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon L. Rottman

Germany The typical Luftwaffe glider pilot (Segelflugzeugführer) was a senior NCO of Unterfeldwebel or Feldwebel rank, who had passed the “A” and “B” tests following previous glider training. They received ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Miller, Donald L. [Miller, Donald L.]

Alpine Internment Within an hour after touching down in Switzerland, Culler’s crew and other American crews that landed at Dubendorf that afternoon were taken by armed guards to a large ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:Walter J Boyne

Air Power in the Mediterranean Campaigns Ironically, as the homeland of the most famous of air-power philosophers, Italy had within its power the ability to use air power to influence ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )