Lost Airmen

Author : Charles E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684512829

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Lost Airmen by Charles E. Stanley Pdf

Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refugee with the Partisan underground. But the Americans were far from safety. Holed up in a village barely able to feed its citizens, encircled by Nazis, and left abandoned after a team of British secret agents failed to secure their escape, the airmen were left with little choice. It was either flee or be killed. In The Lost Airmen, Charles Stanely Jr. unveils the shocking true story of his father, Charles Stanely-and the eighteen brave soldiers he journeyed with for the first time. Drawing on over twenty years of research, dozens of interviews, and previously unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs written by the airmen, Stanley recounts the deadly journey across the blizzard-swept Dinaric Alps during the worst winter of the Twentieth Century-and the heroic men who fought impossible odds to keep their brothers in arms alive.

Author : Blaine Pardoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472117529

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Lost Eagles by Blaine Pardoe Pdf

DIVThe first biography of the man who created the way we look for airmen downed in combat behind enemy lines/div

Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090019161

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Administrative separation of airmen by United States. Department of the Air Force Pdf

Author : Seth Meyerowitz,Peter Stevens
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698193963

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The Lost Airman by Seth Meyerowitz,Peter Stevens Pdf

The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was one of only two crewmen who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground, when their plane was shot down near Cognac, France, in 1943. After fleeing the wreck, Arthur knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, whose owners hastily took him in. Fortunately, his hosts had a tight connection to the French resistance group Morhange and its founder, Marcel Taillandier, who arranged for Arthur’s transfers among safe houses in southern France, shielding him from the Gestapo. Based on recently declassified material, exclusive personal interviews, and extensive research into the French Resistance, The Lost Airman tells the tense and riveting story of Arthur’s hair-raising journey to freedom—a true story of endurance, perseverance, and escape during World War II. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAP

Author : Herman Bodson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786422166

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Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture by Herman Bodson Pdf

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory. He describes the ever-present risks the often nameless patriots faced, such as the danger of exposure and the threat of traitorous infiltration. Specific lines are traced geographically and their main participants discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in this resistance operation. Throughout the book, the reader benefits not only from the author's own personal recollections but also from his later on-location research. The final chapter concludes with statistical information directly related to this little known aspect of World War II. Appendices include lists of the airmen helped by the resistance movement.

Author : Roy Conyers Nesbit
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781598580

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Reported Missing by Roy Conyers Nesbit Pdf

Roy Nesbit brings to bear all the insight gained from his flying experience and his skill as a aviation historian as he investigates the wartime disappearances he describes in this haunting book. In vivid detail he retells the stories of two of the best-known disappearances the pioneering aviator and renowned author Antoine Saint-Exupry and the photo-reconnaissance ace Adrian Warburton. But he also explores several less well-known but equally dramatic cases the crew of a Beaufort torpedo bomber that vanished off the coast of Greece, the loss of a Czech Hurricane pilot in Belgium, and the disappearance of a Lancaster crew during a raid on Germany. In his search to discover the fate of these lost airmen, he reconstructs the circumstances of their final flights and reconstructs their last moments in the air, and he puts together all the scattered pieces of evidence that have come to light since the war to explain their loss. His historical detective work emphasizes the uncertainties and terrible risks that were a routine element in operational flying 60 years ago. The stories make compelling reading.

Author : Judith M. Heimann
Publisher : HMH
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547416069

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The Airmen and the Headhunters by Judith M. Heimann Pdf

A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home in a desperate game of hide-and-seek? A cinematic survival story featuring a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.

Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393254785

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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel by Robert Gandt Pdf

“Reads like a World War II thriller, only better because every word is true.… One of the great untold stories of history. Robert Gandt has brought it vividly, unforgettably to life.” —Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, and South Africa arrived to help. They were a small group, fewer than 150. Many were World War II veterans; most of them knowingly violated their nations’ embargoes on the shipment of arms and aircraft to Israel. The airmen risked everything—their careers, citizenship, and lives—to fight for Israel. The saga of the volunteer airmen in Israel’s war of independence stands as one of the most stirring—and little-known—war stories of the past century.

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473842267

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Lost Wings of WWI by Martin W. Bowman Pdf

This new publication from eminent military historian Martin Bowman chronicles the stories of airmen downed on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, representing a contribution on the author's part to the 100th anniversary of the Great War. It's speciality focus makes for a truly unique compendium of visceral First World War accounts of the incredible, bloody, aerial battles flown by the RFC, German, American, British and Commonwealth pilots shot down over the Western Front, also including stories of their escapes and lives in PoW camps. Whilst the predominant focus is on the airmen who saw action during the Great War, the author also provides startling tales of female heroism. There is a full chapter dedicated to the life and death of Norfolk heroine, Edith Cavell, a Norwich-born nurse who saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers from both sides during the conflict, and perished in the endeavour. Amongst the famous pilots covered are; VCs Billy Bishop and Freddie West; Dice-with-Death Dallas; Mannock The King of the Fighter Aces and Frank Luke the Balloon Buster. This book contains vivid accounts of some of the most heroic actions in the history of aerial warfare, all taking place within the brutal four year stretch of the Great War.

Author : Jeffrey Jones
Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Tuskegee Airmen History And Chronology In Text And Photographs by Jeffrey Jones Pdf

CONTENTS By CHAPTER: A History Of The Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Airmen Chronology News Stories Historic Photographs INTRODUCTION The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black pilots in American military history, those who were stationed at the bases where they trained or from which they flew, those who belonged to the organizations to which the pilots belonged, or those who belonged to the support organizations for those flying units. The pilots were called Tuskegee Airmen because they trained at airfields around Tuskegee during World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated uses the term DOTA (Documented Original Tuskegee Airman) to define anyone, “man or woman, military or civilian, black or white, officer or enlisted,” who served at any of the air bases at which the Tuskegee-trained pilots trained or flew, or in any of the Army Air Force units “stemming from the ‘Tuskegee Experience’ between the years 1941 and 1949.” The Tuskegee experience began in 1941, when the first military black flying unit was activated, and ended in 1949, when the last segregated all-black flying units were inactivated. Certainly there have been a great many black pilots who have served in the Air Force since 1949, but unless they served in Tuskegee Airmen units or at Tuskegee Airmen bases between the years 1941 and 1949, they were not technically Tuskegee Airmen. There were no “second-generation Tuskegee Airmen,” because during the years 1941-1949, there were no fathers and sons who both took part in the program.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Air-pilot guides
ISBN : OSU:32435076214543

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Notices to Airmen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Haulman
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603061056

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The Tuskegee Airmen and the “Never Lost a Bomber” Myth by Daniel Haulman Pdf

During the first sixty years following World War II, a powerful myth grew up claiming that the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in the war, had been the only fighter escort group never to have lost a bomber to enemy aircraft fire. The myth was enshrined in articles, books, museum exhibits, television programs, and films. In actuality, the all-black 332d Fighter Group flew at least seven bomber escort missions, of the 179 it flew for the Fifteenth Air Force between early June 1944 and the end of April 1945, in which one or more of the bombers it escorted was shot down by enemy aircraft. In fact, 27 bombers the 332d Fighter Group was assigned to escort were shot down by enemy aircraft during the war, most during the summer of 1944. This article explores how the "never lost a bomber" myth originated and grew, and then refutes it conclusively with careful reference to primary source documents located at the Air Force Historical Research Agency. Among those documents are the daily mission reports of the Tuskegee Airmen's 332d Fighter Group (which indicates the bomb groups the Tuskegee Airmen escorted, and where and when), the daily mission reports of the bomb groups the Tuskegee Airmen escorted (which indicates if bombers were shot down by enemy aircraft at the times and places the 332d Fighter Group was escorting them), and the missing aircrew reports, which show which aircraft were lost, including the type of aircraft, the unit to which it belonged, when and where it went down, and whether it went down by enemy aircraft fire. By piecing together these documents, the author not only proves that sometimes bombers under the escort of the Tuskegee Airmen were shot down by enemy aircraft, but when and where those losses occurred, and to which groups they belonged.

Author : Richard Starks,Miriam Murcutt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780762761906

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Lost in Tibet by Richard Starks,Miriam Murcutt Pdf

Author : John Radzilowski,Jerzy Szczeniak
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612005614

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Frantic 7 by John Radzilowski,Jerzy Szczeniak Pdf

An “amazingly detailed” and “inspiring” account of the only daytime air expedition to help Polish freedom fighters during World War II (Books Monthly). The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 during World War II, making Soviet airfields accessible to long-range American aircraft based in Italy and later England. Yet Stalin had to be persuaded by the United States to let them use Frantic to drop supplies to the Poles after the Warsaw Uprising began in 1944. On September 18, 1944, American B-17 Flying Fortresses, supported by fighter planes, dropped arms, ammunition, medical supplies, and food over the city of Warsaw. The assistance came too late and had no bearing on the situation of the Polish freedom fighters in Warsaw, but the events of that day—and the courage of 1,220 airmen who risked their lives—are still remembered by the Poles of Warsaw. “A thoroughly researched, impressively detailed, and exceptionally well written history,” this book gives a full narrative of the Frantic 7 operation itself (Midwest Book Review). Using firsthand accounts of the events from the freedom fighters on the ground in Warsaw, the fates of the young aircrew, in particular those of “I’ll Be Seeing You,” are told in detail. It also sets Frantic 7 in its political context and explains how the diplomatic wrangles helped set the stage for the breakdown in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States—and the beginning of the path to the Cold War.

Author : Bryn Evans
Publisher : Pen and Sword Aviation
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526761736

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Airmen's Incredible Escapes by Bryn Evans Pdf

Harrowing true stories of WWII Allied airmen who were shot down and survived, with maps and photos included. Allied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in the Second World War both in the European and Pacific theaters. But the cost in men and machines was horrific, with Bomber Command suffering 50% aircrew casualties. While many perished, others—shot down over enemy territory or water—survived only after overcoming extraordinary danger and hardship. Their experiences often remained untold, not just for the duration of the war but for many years. In this book, Bryn Evans has gathered together a wealth of unpublished stories from airmen of many nationalities, be they British, Commonwealth, or American. Some involve avoiding or escaping from capture, others surviving against all the odds, braving extreme elements and dodging death from wounds, drowning, or starvation. Importantly, the accounts of those who survived the battle in the skies cheating the enemy and the grim reaper give us a chilling insight into the fate of the many thousands of brave young men who were not so fortunate. The result is an inspiring and gripping read which bears testimony to human courage and resilience.