Aviation
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 )
mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

On the machine gun range On the second day on the firing range they did not flinch from the guns any more but they fired at the moving target, the ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
mobi | | 2001-08-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SIX - Learning to Fly in Combat THE AAF POLICY IN THE FALL OF 1944was to have the pilots fly their first five combat missions as co-pilots with a ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Whittell, Giles [Giles Whittell]

13 Over Here Several months after disembarking at Liverpool – possibly on 27 March 1943, but she was coy about it in her letters home out of respect for the ...
( Category: Aviation May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry

FOUR USA One Reporters were watching all the major airports, but particularly Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington, D.C. Possibly this was because it was here that President Kennedy had ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-30 | Author:Adam Makos [Makos, Adam]

15 A HIGHER CALL MEANWHILE, ABOVE OLDENBURG, GERMANY THE PUB DROPPED from the sky in a spin, accelerating as she passed through twenty-two thousand feet… twenty thousand… eighteen thousand…. In ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Smith, Graham [Smith, Graham]

Flight of P-47s of 353rd Fighter Group over Metfield. First Group operation 9th August 1943. On the 11th, General Spaatz made it quite clear to Doolittle that once the heavy ...
( Category: Conventional April 7,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Adlam, Henry "Hank" [Adlam, Henry "Hank"]

( Category: Aviation March 25,2015 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Evans, Bryn [Evans, Bryn]

On 5 and 6 August a force of 121 B-17 heavy bombers, out of a total Strategic Air Force strength of 180, made the only heavy bombing attacks on Messina ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Leonard James [James, Leonard]

Chapter 5 Eagle Day The Battle of Britain was now really gathering pace as Goering sought to destroy the RAF in two weeks of furious acton, starting on 13 August ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Kaplan, Philip [Kaplan, Philip]

At the end of a raid, a belt of whisky and a quick bite usually awaited the returning fliers, along with an interrogation on their recent experience. Armorers bringing the ...
( Category: Pictorials March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Gregory A. Freeman [Freeman, Gregory A.]

CHAPTER 11 THE TRIAL July 18, 1945 AFTER A WEEK IN THE HOSPITAL, Hartgen was well enough to be released. On July 18, 1945, eleven defendants—nine men and two women, ...
( Category: World War II March 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

AGM-88 HARM On May 1st, 1960, over the farmlands of central Russia, a small air battle took place that forever changed the nature of air warfare. Almost 13 miles/21 kilometers ...
( Category: United States March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-21 | Author:Daniel Ford

A jibaku dive upon Blenheim bombers parked at Mingaladon airport, as rendered by a postwar Japanese artist. The Nakajima Ki-27 Nate was the fighter most often encountered by the AVG, ...
( Category: Military March 3,2015 )