Military Aviation History
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Robert F. Dorr [Dorr, Robert F.]

Castle struggled with his controls and traveled some distance away from the protection of the bomber force, where he was again attacked. A third attack set both engines on the ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Richard C. Knott

VP-12 was the Navy’s first official Black Cat squadron. (VP-12 cruise book) On the night of February 1–2 the Japanese made their move to evacuate Guadalcanal. About twenty enemy destroyers ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-09-14 | Author:Martin Bowman [Bowman, Martin]

Halifax II W7676 TL-P of 35 Squadron, which was lost with Sergeant D. A. V. John and his crew (all KIA) on the night of 28/29 August 1942 when it ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 1,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-08-18 | Author:Arthur Gould Lee [Lee, Arthur Gould]

TEN COMBAT REPORT I was the second to touch down, and as I taxied to the hangars I saw Odell follow me and make a neat landing. Two other Pups ...
( Category: World War I March 1,2020 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2005-11-18 | Author:Peter Caygill [Caygill, Peter]

CHAPTER NINE Focke-Wulf Fw 190A The arrival of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A in the skies over northern France in the late summer of 1941 heralded a particularly difficult period for ...
( Category: Engineering March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-21 | Author:Peter C. Smith [Smith, Peter C.]

This Ju 87D-3 of the IX./St.G. 77, being ‘bombed-up’ on a main airfield in southern Russia, in the summer of 1942, wears its unit emblem unusually small. The ‘Blackmen’ are ...
( Category: Engineering March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-27 | Author:Graham White

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Anchovy Airways Not many people get the chance to run their own airline. We called ours Anchovy Airways, after the squadron’s callsign at the time, and I was ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 1,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:John French [French, John]

CHAPTER TEN Operations in 1944 As February 1944 came towards its end, the crew and I were detailed to escort Russian convoy JW 57, to be met far away, north ...
( Category: World War II March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Douglas Waller

Jonathan brought his wings level at the top of the roller coaster moments before he was supposed to make the left turn for the run northwest into the target. It ...
( Category: Marine Engineering March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Bruce Gamble

*One pilot, 1st Lt. James Swett, shot down seven Vals and probably an eighth in a span of minutes before ditching his F4F. He later received a Medal of Honor. ...
( Category: World War II February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Weal

In the aftermath of Stalingrad 88-victory Leutnant Eberhard von Boremski of 7./JG 3 was seconded to serve as a fighter instructor with the Rumanian Air Force. He is shown here ...
( Category: Military Aviation History February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Lon O. Nordeen [Nordeen, Lon O.]

Invasions of Lebanon Israeli forces drove into Lebanon as far as the Litani River under the cover of heavy airpower in March 1978, with the goal of driving out the ...
( Category: Engineering February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Carroll V. Glines [Glines, Carroll V.]

Ogden’s risky adventure was still not over. They reached a lagoon when they entered the next valley and had to be transported across it on a barge poled by fishermen. ...
( Category: Aerospace February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Shlomo Aloni & Adam Tooby

Four Fouga armed trainers flying over IDF Command South troops en route to strike Egyptian forces in Sinai. Throughout June 5, Squadron 147 supported Command South, but in order to ...
( Category: Military Aviation History February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Cory Graff [Graff, Cory]

performance fighter aircraft before. They said they could make a better plane than the P-40, and would design and build the first one in less than 120 days. Amazingly, NAA ...
( Category: History of Technology February 25,2020 )