Military
epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:David Stevenson

15 The Central Powers’ Last Throw, Autumn 1917–Summer 1918 In autumn 1917 the Central Powers regained the initiative. Their counterattack against the Kerensky offensive initiated a reversal of fortunes comparable ...
( Category: European June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Pateman, Colin

In February 1945, the Stirling bombers that had struggled to perform to the high demands of jamming operations were eventually exchanged for the superior Halifax. No. 199 Squadron was the ...
( Category: World War II June 2,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Saunders, Andy [Saunders, Andy]

One of the Junkers 88’s 250 kg bombs lies in the foreground as crowds of sightseers begin to gather. According to the Birkenhead Advertiser of 12 October 1940 the battle, ...
( Category: Aviation June 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.

Lieutenant Colonel Mixson at RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk, England, in 1952, posing with members of the RAF Special Duty Flight. Flight Commander John Crampton stands to Mixson’s left. A group picture ...
( Category: Veterans June 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Saunders, Andy

One of the Junkers 88’s 250 kg bombs lies in the foreground as crowds of sightseers begin to gather. According to the Birkenhead Advertiser of 12 October 1940 the battle, ...
( Category: Aviation June 2,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Moore, Kate [Moore, Kate]

Three days later Hitler made what he referred to as his ‘Last Appeal to Reason’ to the British government and the British people. Addressing an electrified Reichstag Hitler declared, ‘A ...
( Category: Great Britain June 1,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Archard, L. [Archard, L.]

Two views of the Martin factory at Offut, Nebraska, one of four plants where the B-29 Superfortress bomber was assembled. The top picture shows the production line and the second ...
( Category: History June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Shilleto & Mike Tolhurst [Shilleto, Carl]

EYEWITNESS I fired unceasingly with my Lewis Gun at the cliff tops. Germans could be seen running into their positions. I tried to adjust my fire by moving the gun ...
( Category: General June 1,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Bowman, Martin W [Bowman, Martin W]

Footnotes 80 Rogers later gained a DFM and he was commissioned. He was KIA on 8/9 April 1943 flying as second pilot of a Halifax II on 76 Squadron. 81 ...
( Category: History June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Phil Keith [Keith, Phil]

2200, MAY 6, 1942 ADMIRAL’S QUARTERS, USS LEXINGTON Fitch was alone with his thoughts. He idly wondered what his classmate “Jack” Fletcher was doing on board Yorktown, just three miles ...
( Category: Aviation June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Bruce Chadwick [CHADWICK, BRUCE]

VICTORY The way out came during the first week of July. The kidnappers realized that they might go to prison for substantial periods of time if their trial was heard ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Davis, Kenneth C.

The advancing Soviet legions resembled no other army the world had ever seen. A mingling of old and new, Europe and Asia, high intelligence and brutish ignorance, ideology and patriotism, ...
( Category: United States June 1,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Davis, Kenneth C. [Davis, Kenneth C.]

The advancing Soviet legions resembled no other army the world had ever seen. A mingling of old and new, Europe and Asia, high intelligence and brutish ignorance, ideology and patriotism, ...
( Category: United States June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-16 | Author:Derry, Martin & Robinson, Neil

The post-war grey and black bomber scheme As the end of the war in Europe was in sight, proposals regarding a change in the camouflage of night bombers began to ...
( Category: Carving June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

As the Marines struggled to wrest the second airfield from the Japanese, the commanding terrain features rising to the north caught their attention. Some would become known by their elevations ...
( Category: World War II June 1,2015 )