World War II
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

14 Thursday 21 December By the morning of 21 December, the Kampfgruppe Peiper was in a desperate situation, ‘pocketed without adequate supplies’, as its leader put it. He received a ...
( 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 | 2015-01-14 | Author:Robert W. Baumer [Baumer, Robert W.]

Aachen citizens leaving the city before the evacuation was halted. NATIONAL ARCHIVES U.S. soldiers examine pillboxes built into hillsides. MCCORMICK RESEARCH CENTER Twenty-Sixth Infantry troops readying for the attack on ...
( Category: World War II May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 Suddenly the firing stopped, brought to an end not by a Cease Fire order but by a sound far more blood curdling…. —XAN FIELDING “BLACK SHEEP!” A few ...
( Category: Adventure May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Cyril J. O'Brien [O'Brien, Cyril J.]

[Sidebar (page 26):] The Colt .45-Caliber M1911A1 Pistol The Colt M1911A1 pistol was standard issue to many Marine officers, noncommissioned officers, and specialists not armed with either the M1 carbine ...
( Category: World War II May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Susan Ottaway

CHAPTER 15 Didi Vanishes The day after Jacqueline had returned to England the Stationer circuit was sent a new wireless operator. René Mathieu (Aimé) arrived to take over from Maingard ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-26 | Author:Sean Longden [Sean Longden]

Notes 1. Quoted in Ben Wicks, Waiting for the All Clear (London: Bloomsbury, 1990). 2. Peter Richards, Bombs, Bullshit and Bullets (London: Athena Press, 2007). 3. National Archives WO32/9847. 4. ...
( Category: World War II May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Basil Liddell Hart [Hart, Basil Liddell]

* These figures, from the records, significantly show how fallacious it can be to compare Allied and Axis strength in terms of the number of ‘divisions’ engaged on either side ...
( Category: World War II May 27,2015 )
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 | 2011-05-26 | Author:Michael Smith [Michael Smith]

By the end of 1941, the increase in the numbers of people had brought a dramatic improvement in the social life. Phoebe Senyard spent her first Christmas of the war ...
( Category: General May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-24 | Author:Duffy, Peter

CHAPTER TEN AND YOU BE CAREFUL I noticed the beautiful dog that was following you on 42nd Street yesterday. I was very interested in it and a friend of mine ...
( Category: World War II May 26,2015 )