epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

★ On October 9, Buster Glosson and a team from CENTCOM left for Washington to brief the air campaign to General Powell (on October 10) and to the President and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-18 | Author:Wolfgang Fischer [Fischer, Wolfgang]

I./JG 2’s likely opponents in the action of 25 May were the American 364th Fighter Group, who lost six of their P-38 Lightnings on that date. But the moment the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Steve Davies

EJECTION SEAT UNCERTAINTY Gennin grounded the MiGs on a number of occasions soon after assuming command. Whatever the fault, when he imposed a grounding he would issue the instruction first, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Band of Brothers [Brothers, Band of]

7 HEALING WOUNDS AND SCRUBBED MISSIONS * ALDBOURNE July 13-Septemberl6,1944 "It's the only time I ever saw the Army do anything right," Gordon Carson said. "They put us on those ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Smith, Douglas V. [Smith, Douglas V.]

TRANSITION The period through 1945 produced a particular type of carrier for both strategic and technological reasons. The strategic reason was that, through this period, the U.S. Navy was designed ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:John R. Bruning

Curtis LeMay (far right) led the 4th Bomb Wing during the famous double strike mission to Regensburg and Schweinfurt. LeMay’s combat experience in the Eighth Air Force shaped his vision ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Ian McPhedran

Matt Basedow is also married to an Adelaide girl, Kylie, and they have four children. He grew up on a farm near the small town of Cobar in central New ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lambeth, Benjamin S. [Lambeth, Benjamin S.]

President George W. Bush flanked by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as he announces a $74.7 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff [Zuckoff, Mitchell]

Chapter 19 “SHOO, SHOO BABY” THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY and growling, Walter and his team awoke early to a breakfast of hot water and hope. His top priority was receiving a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Hampton, Dan [Hampton, Dan]

Photo Section Undergraduate Pilot Training graduation, 1987. Welcome to the USAF. TopGun clipping. All fighter wings have these competitions, and this was my first win. Germany, 1990. Every bachelor fighter ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Bradley [BRADLEY, JAMES]

General Tachibana’s temper grew hotter as the simmering summer of 1944 dragged on. Japanese military doctrine focused on taking the offensive, but on Chichi Jima there were no glorious battles ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert J. Mrazek

Nine days later, completely out of the blue, the official reprimand arrived from Ira Eaker, the commanding general of the Eighth Air Force, at Travis’s Forty-first Combat Wing headquarters in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jack Broughton

7. Fifteen Sams for Geeno As we took the belated and hesitant step of pressing the attack against North Vietnam's symbolic experiment in industrialization, the Thai Nguyen steel complex, my ...

mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Medea Benjamin & Barbara Ehrenreich

The United States is not the only country killing by remote control. A report published in the Washington Post in December 2011 detailed the Israeli military’s use of drone aircraft ...