Flying Legends Of World War Ii

Author : Philip Handleman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783032389

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Flying Legends of World War II by Philip Handleman Pdf

More than thirty Allied Forces' WWII aircraft types are illustrated in many rare and previously unpublished black and white and color photographs. Each type is described giving vital data on development history, combat record, famous pilots and significant air battles. Performance, range and weapon loads are also included. The unique color photographs are from the collection of the late William B. Slate, an aviation photographer who strove to capture the thrilling perspective that can only come from close-up, in-flight vantage points from an aircraft flying in formation.

Author : John M. Dibbs
Publisher : Crestline Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0785832416

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Flying Legends by John M. Dibbs Pdf

The airplanes of The Second World War were beautifully crafted and flew the skies with honor and bravery. Flying Legends captures their grace and stature in stunning photography and extensive detail. The Second World War triggered the greatest technological leap in aviation since manned flight began. In the short space of six years, military aircraft were taken from open cockpit biplanes on a summer's day to fighters that were encountering the compressibility problems associated with the sound barrier, while conquering the skies of 40,000 + feet. What seemed like an insurmountable design problem became a solution when hardworking men and women found a way to transform the airplanes of the past. The issues at hand focused the industries of the global powers, which achieved dazzling results. Represented in this splendid volume are images of these aircraft, the last of the gladiatorial steeds. Not only are the great airplanes depicted in great detail in this luxurious volume, inside you will also find scenes of them in live combat. Flying Legends is the perfect gift for the history buff in your life. The award winning air-to-air photography of John Dibbs is complemented by a selection of breathtaking archives from the conflict, which can only truly illustrate the spirit and humanity behind these Flying Legends.

Author : Robin Higham,Abigail T. Siddall,Carol Williams
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811746083

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Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II by Robin Higham,Abigail T. Siddall,Carol Williams Pdf

Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more!

Author : Tony Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 0681074825

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Flying Legends by Tony Holmes Pdf

The award winning air to air photography of John Dibbs captures immaculately restored World War II aircraft complemented by a selection of archival, frontline images. Flying legends Dibbs and Holmes subtitled: a photographic study of the great piston combat aircraft of WWII. The Second World War triggered the greatest technological leap in aviation since manned flight began. In the short space of six years, military aircraft were taken from open cockpit biplanes to fighters that were encountering compressibility problems associated with the sound barrier. Represented in this exceptional volume are images of these legendary aircraft. The award winning air to air photography of John Dibbs is complimented by a selection of breathtaking archive shots from the conflict, which truly illustrate the spirit behind these Flying Legends.

Author : John M. Dibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760392058

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Flying Legends 2025 by John M. Dibbs Pdf

Relive the style, might, and glory of classic World War II warbirds with Flying Legends 2025, a 16-month wall calendar featuring 13 full-color images of classic warplanes in flight! Take to the skies with the legendary WWII warbirds pictured in this stunning calendar. With a handy page that shows the months of September, October, November, and December 2024 followed by individual pages for the months of 2025, each photo is accompanied by all the fun-to-memorize stats for each plane, including manufacturer, powerplant, performance, and armament. The 17" × 12" calendar images are the perfect size for framing, so when 2025 comes to an end, you can continue to admire these mighty warplanes. This is a great gift for the history nut, military buff, or veteran in your life. From launch to landing, Flying Legends 2025 will have you feeling sky-high all year!

Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819979

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Two-Man Air Force by Philip Kaplan Pdf

American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge in England. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy aircraft destroyed. Major Gentile had scored 22 air and 6 ground kills before he was returned to the USA to help raise money for the war effort. Major Godfrey was credited with 18 air and 12 ground kills before he was shot down and taken prisoner of war. This is the story of their amazing adventures and wartime partnership from their basic training in Canada and then onto England where they first flew the Supermarine Spitfire. It continues with their transfer to the USAAF 4th Fighter Group when the US entered the war and when the two were retrained to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt and eventually the superb P-51 Mustang. These two ace pilots loved life as much as flying - and as well as being hell-bent on destroying the enemy in the skies of Europe they also lived life to the full in their off-duty time in England.

Author : John M. Dibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760384619

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Flying Legends 2024 by John M. Dibbs Pdf

Relive the style, might, and glory of classic World War II warbirds with Flying Legends 2024, a 16-month wall calendar featuring 13 full-color images of classic warplanes in flight! Take to the skies with the legendary WWII warbirds pictured in this stunning calendar. With a handy page that shows the months of September, October, November, and December 2023 followed by individual pages for the months of 2024, each photo is accompanied by all the fun-to-memorize stats for each plane, including ceiling, bombload, powerplant, and where it was built. The aircraft featured include: North American P-51 Mustang Curtiss P-40B Warhawk North American PBJ-1D Mitchell Spitfire Mk.XVI Spitfire Mk.I Spitfire Mk IXb FG-1D Corsair Messerschmitt Bf-109E-3 Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXb Hawker Hurricane Mk.X Blenheim Mk.If Bristol Blenheim Mk.I Avro Lancaster B.I Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Reisen The 17" × 12" calendar images are the perfect size for framing, so when 2024 comes to an end, you can continue to admire these mighty warplanes. This is a great gift for the history nut, military buff, or veteran in your life. From launch to landing, Flying Legends 2024 will have you feeling sky-high all year!

Author : Tony Holmes
Publisher : Osprey Publishing Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1841761559

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Aircraft of the Aces by Tony Holmes Pdf

Published to commemorate the 60th anniversay of the Battle of Britain, this book is packed with photography and anecdotes of World War II flying aces. It includes firsthand accounts from the protagonists, as well as photographs of the pilot and his aircraft.

Author : John Dibbs
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0760309671

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Warbird Legends by John Dibbs Pdf

The Second World War spurred tense focus among industries of the world's powers. In the short span of six years, military aircraft developed from open-cockpit biplanes to fighters that soared to 40,000 feet and toyed with the sound barrier. Represented in this spendid volume are images of the war's 20 greatest aircraft - from the legendary Mustang, Spitfire, Flying Fortress, and Mitsubishi Zero, to lesser-known but equally awe-inspiring warbirds like the Mosquito, Blenheim, and Kingcobra. The award-winning air-to-air photography of John Dibbs captures immaculately restored aircraft and is complemented by a selection of archival, frontline images illustrating the true spirit and humanity of these Flying Legends. John M. Dibbs spent his childhood near old RAF Command Airfields. His natural interest in aviation has led to a diverse portfolio, and this collection represents his favorite images of World War II aircraft.

Author : Robin D. S. Higham
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0811731243

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Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II by Robin D. S. Higham Pdf

Presents a collection of illustrated photographs and narratives that describes the U.S. combat aircraft of World War Two written by the former aviators who flew those missions.

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Castle Books, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0785814779

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Warplanes of World War II by Robert Jackson Pdf

Author : Chris Chant
Publisher : Mini Encyclopedia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1838861904

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Aircraft of World War II by Chris Chant Pdf

Author : Samuel Hynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Author : John Dibbs
Publisher : Crestline
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : History
ISBN : 076031862X

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Flying Legends Hardcover Crestline Edition by John Dibbs Pdf

A photographic study of the great piston combat aircraft of World War II.

Author : James H. Kitchens,Bernard C. Nalty,James A. Kitchens,G.E. Patrick Murray
Publisher : Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Air pilots, Military
ISBN : 1567998151

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Flying Aces by James H. Kitchens,Bernard C. Nalty,James A. Kitchens,G.E. Patrick Murray Pdf

Some of greatest dramas of World War II occurred in the skies, where courageous and the tenacious fighter pilots battled in dogfights so fierce that the pilots -- and their planes -- became legends in their own time. Their stories continue to capture the imaginations of World War II buffs and history fans today, as well as countless talented artists who painstakingly recreate their most famous battles in vivid detail, and with staggering accuracy. This fantastic volume presents more than one hundred such works, with detailed historical descriptions of each scene.-- With more than 100 full-color reproductions of works by today's most renowned historical artists-- Archival photographs of legendary Aces and historical descriptions of their planes and their greatest battles enhance each scene presented-- Includes the greatest Aces of both the Allied and Axis forces