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Author : Ray Jacobson
Publisher : Astra, Ont. : The Squadron
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89063273726
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112004549678
This collection of squadron histories has been prepared by the USAF Historical Division to complement the Division's book, Air Force Combat Units of World War II. The 1,226 units covered by this volume are the combat (tactical) squadrons that were active between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945. Each squadron is traced from its beginning through 5 March 1963, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the 1st Aero (later Bombardment) Squadron, the first Army unit to be equipped with aircraft for tactical operations. For each squadron there is a statement of the official lineage and data on the unit's assignments, stations, aircraft and missiles, operations, service streamers, campaign participation, decorations, and emblem.
Author : Chris Ward
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844687329
6 Group was born out of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), which, among other things called for the formation of 25 Canadian Squadrons in Britain. This figure was later downsized. The Canadian vision was of a Canadian force operating independently alongside Bomber Command in the manner of the American 8th, but skillfull negotiating by the British resulted in Canadian Bomber squadrons operating within the RAF under RAF control but funded by Canada. On the 1st of January 1943 most of the existing RCAF squadrons were brought together on stations in North Yorkshire and County Durham to form 6 Group. By the end of the war 14 Squadrons were operational and one other had been posted to the Pathfinders. After an uncertain beginning the Group became an efficient and valuable contributor to Bomber Command's campaigns. Beginning predominantly with Wellingtons the Group was re-equipped with a mixture of Halifaxes and Lancasters, including the Hercules powered MkII and the Canadian built MKX.
Author : Floyd Williston
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1896182445
Author : Brereton Greenhous,Sydney F. Wise,Canada. Department of National Defence,Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force,Stephen J. Harris,William C. Johnston,William C. Rawling
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802005748
The RCAF, with a total strength of 4061 officers and men on 1 September 1939, grew by the end of the war to a strength of more than 263,000 men and women. This important and well-illustrated new history shows how they contributed to the resolution of the most significant conflict of our time.
Author : Harold A. Skaarup
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440167584
This aviation handbook is designed to be used as a quick reference to the classic military heritage aircraft that have been flown by members of the Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and the present-day Canadian Forces. The interested reader will find useful information and a few technical details on most of the military aircraft that have been in service with active Canadian squadrons both at home and overseas. 100 selected photographs have been included to illustrate a few of the major examples in addition to the serial numbers assigned to Canadian service aircraft. For those who like to actually see the aircraft concerned, aviation museum locations, addresses and contact phone numbers have been included, along with a list of aircraft held in each museum's current inventory or on display as gate guardians throughout Canada and overseas. The aircraft presented in this edition are listed alphabetically by manufacturer, number and type. Although many of Canada's heritage warplanes have completely disappeared, a few have been carefully collected, restored and preserved, and some have even been restored to flying condition. This guide-book should help you to find and view Canada's Warplane survivors.
Author : Larry Milberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Canadair DC-4M (Transport plane)
ISBN : 0969070314
Author : W. R. Chorley
Publisher : Midland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89084474816
This is the second volume in the series which deals with the losses sustained by the RAF Bomber Command during the 2nd World War. It has already found favour with historians, and those friends and relatives affected by the loss.
Author : Arthur Harris
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844152100
Sir Arthur Harris - Bomber Harris - remains the target of criticism and vilification by many, while others believe the contribution he and his men made to victory is grossly undervalued. He led the men of Bomber Command in the face of appalling casualties, had fierce disagreements with higher authority and enjoyed a complicated relationship with Winston Churchill. Written soon after the close of World War 2, this collection of Sir Arthur Harris's memoirs reveals the man behind the Allied bombing offensive that culminated in the destruction of the Nazi war machine but also many beautiful cities, including Dresden.
Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814757895
The defeat of Nazi Germany in the words of those who were there New Year's Day 1945 was not a day for rest or rejoicing on the embattled continent of Europe. Hard winter gripped the land, from the Channel coast to the distant Urals. Only the thought of victory warmed the frozen soldiers huddled in tanks and foxholes as the New Year dawned and they faced the prospect of battling onwards toward Berlin. This is the story of the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, from New Year's Day to VE Day, May 8, 1945. It is a story told not in the words of historians or scholars, but in the words of the people who lived through it, who fought and endured: soldier and civilian, American infantryman and British paratrooper, Canadian gunner and Australian pilot, New Zealand POW and German civilian. With his unrivaled gift for popular history, Robin Neillands, in his follow-up to the enormously successful D-Day 1944, recreates in engaging narrative fashion the most dramatic and bloody months of the war. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, letters, and inside eyewitness testimony from veterans about such subjects as the esprit de corps in the Allied and Axis armies, the discovery of the concentration camps, the dissension in the Allied command, and the meeting of Russians and Americans at the Elbe, the book recounts the effects of many of the most crucial events of the conflict on soldier and citizen alike. The Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Auschwitz, the Malmedy Massacres, the fall of Warsaw to the Red Army, the destruction of Dresden, the lynching of Allied aircrews, Yalta, Hitler's Scorched Earth directive, the massive parachutes drops by the Allied forces, the death of Roosevelt, the last days of Hitler, and, finally, the surrender of Germany—it's all here, rendered in engrossing and rich detail in this example of military history at its finest. For a comprehensive and thrilling account of the end of World War II, The Conquest of the Reich will stand as the definitive people's history for years to come.
Author : Gordon A. A. Wilson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445690940
A complete history of Bomber Command, including its crucial role in WWII and later nuclear role in the Cold War.
Author : Laurence Motiuk
Publisher : Nepean, Ont. : Larmot Associates
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Bombers
ISBN : 0968343104
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1947-07
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : UOM:39015019903007
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010102858
Author : George Hofmann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813171425
The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a mechanized branch is arguably one of the greatest military transformations in history. Through Mobility We Conquer recounts the evolution and development of the U.S. Army’s modern mechanized cavalry and the doctrine necessary to use it effectively. The book also explores the debates over how best to use cavalry and how these discussions evolved during the first half of the century. During World War I, the first cavalry theorist proposed combining arms coordination with a mechanized force as an answer to the stalemate on the Western Front. Hofmann brings the story through the next fifty years, when a new breed of cavalrymen became cold war warriors as the U.S. Constabulary was established as an occupation security-police force. Having reviewed thousands of official records and manuals, military journals, personal papers, memoirs, and oral histories—many of which were only recently declassified—George F. Hofmann now presents a detailed study of the doctrine, equipment, structure, organization, tactics, and strategy of U.S. mechanized cavalry during the changing international dynamics of the first half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, maps, and charts, Through Mobility We Conquer examines how technology revolutionized U.S. forces in the twentieth century and demonstrates how perhaps no other branch of the military underwent greater changes during this time than the cavalry.