Central Coast Aviators In World War Ii

Author : Jim Gregory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664285

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Central Coast Aviators in World War II by Jim Gregory Pdf

A tribute to the heroism shown by military pilots and aircrew from rural California towns who risked their lives and made their mark on American history. During World War II, thousands of volunteer combat aviators trained at places like Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Hancock Field in Santa Maria. Some air cadets and WASPs—young women pilots—lost their lives in training accidents. The graduates would go on to fight in both the Pacific and European theaters. They faced flak bursts and collisions that resulted in horrifying explosions and were sent on strafing runs that made them targets in a lethal shooting gallery. Downed airmen encountered both unexpected kindness and cruel deprivation as prisoners of war. Through interviews and official records, Jim Gregory tells the stories of heroic Central Coast veterans who fought a war that stretched from New Guinea to North Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Air pilots, Military
ISBN : 9780938021957

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World War II Glider Pilots by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Winchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 1592232248

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Aircraft of World War II by Jim Winchester Pdf

From the start of World War II, in 1939, to its conclusion six years later, military aircraft developed from prewar biplanes such as the Gloster Gladiator, to classic aircraft--the Messerschmitt Me 109 and the P-51 Mustang--and on to the age of jet warplanes--the Arado Ar 234 and the Gloster Meteor. 600 color and archival photographs perfectly showcase the length and design of each entry. Presented here in mesmerizing detail, these artifacts from the world's first major air battles will fascinate both WWII and military aircraft buffs alike.

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855

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Air Force Combat Units of World War II by Maurer Maurer Pdf

Author : James B. Sweeney
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0531103021

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Famous Aviators of World War II by James B. Sweeney Pdf

Presents biographical sketches of five American fighter pilots and aviation heroes of World War II. Includes descriptions of the types of aircraft, a glossary of aviation terms, and explanations of military ranks and command structure in the U.S. Air Force.

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070703181

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Fighter Pilots of World War II by Robert Jackson Pdf

Author : Jim Gregory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625857477

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World War II Arroyo Grande by Jim Gregory Pdf

On December 7, 1941, war came to Arroyo Grande when two local sailors were killed on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. People from the small town were thrust into great circumstances and quickly answered the call for action. A local storekeeper's son won the Silver Star after he brought his flaming B-17 safely back to base. A valley farmworker served with the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, largely composed of soldiers of Japanese descent. Chinese guerrillas commanded by Mao Zedong--the future Chairman Mao--threw a birthday party for an Arroyo Grande soldier. At home, community groups like the Arroyo Grande Women's Club brought packed lunches for their Japanese American neighbors on the morning they were forced to leave for the internment camps. Local author Jim Gregory brings to life the sorrows and triumphs of a dramatic period in local history.

Author : Ian Darling
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781454936183

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Heroes in the Skies by Ian Darling Pdf

A gripping collection of true stories that capture the bravery of American pilots who helped win WWII. American pilots fought fierce and often deadly battles in every theater of the Second World War, and many overcame incredible obstacles to survive. Meet some of these courageous aviators, including George McGovern, who survived enemy fire that left 110 holes in his aircraft; George H. W. Bush, shot down in the Pacific; Jim Landis, a naval flyer stationed in Pearl Harbor who returned fire even after sustaining a bullet through his hand; Alex Jefferson, a Tuskegee airman shot down over France and taken prisoner; and Betty Blake, one of the little-known women pilots who aided the war effort. Clifton Truman Daniel, a grandson of President Truman, provides the foreword to this collection of carefully researched and vividly told profiles in courage that will transport you to the bullet-ridden, bomb-laden skies of the early 1940s.

Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307417770

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Wings of Gold by Gerald Astor Pdf

From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes Wings of Gold, the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first plane off the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combat missions that helped defeat the Japanese. Few naval aviators in World War II realized that when they earned their wings of gold they were about to become test pilots for a whole new kind of combat. In their own words, these courageous fliers describe the life-and-death air battles that defined the revolution in naval strategy that rose from the ashes of Pearl Harbor, when fighter pilots watched in horror as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft bombed their planes and airfields into smoking rubble. While following the pilots’ firsthand reports of air strikes and blazing dogfights across the islands and atolls of the Pacific, Astor explores the ways the U.S. Navy began its momentous transformation before the war. Later, the critical role of aircraft carriers in the stunning U.S. victory at Midway sounded the death knell for conventional naval warfare, yet the public, the press, the Army, and even the president’s advisors refused to recognize the new reality. In fact, only a few in the Navy understood that a new era had begun that would change the face of war forever. The young Americans who fought the deadly duels against Imperial Japanese forces high over the Pacific gave everything they had to the war effort, and many made the supreme sacrifice. Wings of Gold pays tribute to their courage, daring, and selfless dedication. Vividly told, thoroughly researched, and filled with stirring accounts of the Pacific War’s greatest air battles, Wings of Gold is an important addition to the annals of World War II aerial combat.

Author : Colleen Marie Delaney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467151146

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Rancho Guadalasca: Last Ranch of California's Central Coast by Colleen Marie Delaney Pdf

A journey through Ventura County history. A Mexican land grant awarded in 1836, Rancho Guadalasca lay at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains along the eastern Oxnard Plain. Grantee Ysabel Yorba, an illiterate widow who successfully managed the ranch for over 35 years, is just one of many fascinating people who once lived there. Indigenous Chumash, Californio ranchers, Anglo-American farmers, Japanese fishermen, and Basque sheepherders all left their marks on the land, along with local institutions like Camarillo State Hospital and CSU Channel Islands. Join archaeologist and anthropology professor Colleen M. Delaney as she traces the 5,000 years of community and lifeways that shaped Ventura County.

Author : William R. Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000514094

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Fighter Pilot by William R. Dunn Pdf

At the age of twelve, American William R. Dunn decided to become a fighter pilot. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army and was soon transferred to the Royal Air Force. He was the first pilot in the famous Eagle Squadron of American volunteers to shoot down an enemy aircraft and later became the first American ace of the war. After joining the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943, he saw action in the Normandy invasion and in Patton's sweep across France. Twenty years later he fought again in Vietnam.

Author : Robert D. Loomis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II by Robert D. Loomis Pdf

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Castle Books, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0785814779

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Warplanes of World War II by Robert Jackson Pdf

Author : Peter B. Mersky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015032906813

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Time of the Aces by Peter B. Mersky Pdf

Author : Samuel Hynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013016764

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Flights of Passage by Samuel Hynes Pdf

Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. "The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places--the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people--the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, "Flight of Passage" is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.