Aviation
epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:Martin Bowman

When word reached Thorpe Abbotts that the crew of Just A Snappin’ were still alive the sea of despondency that had descended on base operations was lifted. Everyone had thought ...
( Category: Aviation September 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Nick Thomas

Sergeant R.C. Bolland No.185 Squadron Pilot Officer L. Cheek No.185 Squadron Group Captain Walter M. Churchill, DSO, DFC (flight leader) (Deputy AOC) Sergeant F.W. Clewley, RAAF No. 185 Squadron Sergeant ...
( Category: World War II September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-21 | Author:Mitch Peeke

Chapter Eight September 1940: Turning Point At first, the only noticeable change as August gave way to September, was in the English landscape. The ripening crops on the farms had ...
( Category: Aviation September 2,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Spick

WERNER SCHROER The second highest scorer in North Africa was Werner Schroer, with 61 victories. A combat débutante in the Battle of Britain, and a member of I/JG 27 when ...
( Category: Aviation August 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:James Hamilton-Paterson [Hamilton-Paterson, James]

* For all the political rhetoric in Westminster about the ‘Fokker Scourge’ of late 1915, the skies above the battlefields of Belgium and France were often remarkably empty of aircraft ...
( Category: Aviation June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Al Venter

Towards the end of March the situation in the country became critical. The rebels had taken Kisangani and the Serb mercenary group, which was supposed to be holding the city, ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2015 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood

Near the end of the war, the French general Robert Nivelle asked Nungesser, “Lieutenant, can you tell me by what miracle of tactics you have managed to bring down so ...
( Category: World War I June 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Brooks, Vernon B. [Brooks, Vernon B.]

SHENSTONE Looks stunned. Thank you very much for this tremendous offer! I am most honoured! I will study the best way to do this when I have details of the ...
( Category: Aviation June 4,2015 )
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 |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 | 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 )