Memoirs Of A Stuka Pilot

Author : Helmut Mahlke
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473822375

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Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke Pdf

“Well-written and holds the reader’s attention . . . an engaging book and a rare personal view of flying one of the most iconic aircraft of WWII.” —Firetrench After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser Köln and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer during the Spanish Civil War, Helmut Mahlke describes his flying training as a Stuka pilot. The author’s naval dive-bomber Gruppe was incorporated into the Luftwaffe upon the outbreak of war. What follows is a fascinating Stuka pilot’s-eye view of some of the most famous and historic battles and campaigns of the early war years: the Blitzkrieg in France, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the bombing of Malta, North Africa, Tobruk, and Crete, and, finally, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Mahlke also takes the reader behind the scenes into the day-to-day life of his unit and brings the members of his Gruppe to vivid life, describing their off-duty antics and mourning their losses in action. The story ends when he himself is shot down in flames by a Soviet fighter and is severely burned. He was to spend the remainder of the war in various staff appointments. “An engaging, engrossing and exceptionally informative book. A worthy addition to any military enthusiast’s library and is unhesitatingly and heartily recommended.” —Aviation History

Author : Hans Ulrich Rudel
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014185874

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Stuka Pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel Pdf

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Author : Hans Ulrich Rudel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1908476958

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Stuka Pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel Pdf

Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2. Shot down over 24 times, he destroyed over 500 tanks, 2,000 ground targets, the Russian battleship Marat, two cruisers and a destroyer. His flying record of over 2,500 combat missions remains unmatched by any pilot since.

Author : Philip Ardery
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813143422

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Bomber Pilot by Philip Ardery Pdf

" Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery's plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler's Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This vivid firsthand account, available now for the first time in paper, records one man's experience of World War II air warfare. Throughout, Ardery testifies to the horror of world war as he describes his fear, his longing for home, and his grief for fallen comrades. Bomber Pilot is a moving contribution to American history.

Author : Charles R. Reyher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89096724703

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Memoirs of a B-29 Pilot by Charles R. Reyher Pdf

Merriam Press World War 2 Review Series. From training as a pilot cadet, to bomb approach pilot, to B-17 instructor pilot, followed by training as a B-29 pilot, he and his crew operated from Guam between June and September 1945, flying 13 missions against oil targets in Japan. The book concludes with the author's personal views on how the war with Japan could have been ended without the use of the atomic bombs and without invading the Home Islands. 228 pages, 38 illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780978139605

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memoirs of world war II by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herbert Brooks Hatch,Herbert Hatch
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563115743

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An Ace and His Angel by Herbert Brooks Hatch,Herbert Hatch Pdf

This story was written by Herbert Brooks Hatch, Jr., one of America's living Fighter Pilot Aces from World War II. Hatch flew a P-38 with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, out of Salsola, Italy. Except for a brief deployment to Corsice to cover the invasion of Southern France, he flew his 59 missions out of Foggia #3. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters. In his first book, An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot, Hatch writes of the heroes and hardships endured by veterans of the Army Air Force.

Author : Hanna Reitsch
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612000572

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The Sky My Kingdom by Hanna Reitsch Pdf

The memoir of the female aviator who became Hitler’s favorite pilot. The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War II test pilot Hanna Reitsch. As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Germany’s latest—and increasingly desperate—designs, including the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and several larger bombers, on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting barrage balloon cables. After crashing on her fifth Me 163 flight, she was badly injured but insisted on writing her report before falling unconscious and spending five months in the hospital. Eventually, she became Adolf Hitler’s favorite pilot. Reitsch was one of only two women awarded the Iron Cross First Class during World War II, and the only woman awarded the Luftwaffe Combined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times. In the last days of the war, Reitsch was asked to fly her companion, Col. Gen. Robert Ritter von Greim, into Berlin to meet with Hitler. The city was already surrounded by Red Army troops, who had made significant progress into the downtown area when they arrived, landing on a city street and traveling to the Führerbunker. The aircraft she used was the justly famous Fieseler Storch, already well known for the exploit that rescued Mussolini, only adding to the legend of both Reitsch and that aircraft. She is said to have overheard Hitler laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She also hoped to fly out propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ six children, who had been staying in the bunker since April 22 with their parents, but neither Joseph nor Magda Goebbels would allow it. She managed to escape Berlin herself, on April 29, by flying out through heavy Russian antiaircraft fire. She was a devoted and idealistic Nazi who adored Adolf Hitler and refused to believe the reports of concentration camps and torture. Not until much later would she say that she had been “disgusted” by what she witnessed in the Third Reich. She was held for eighteen months by the American military after the war, interrogated, and subsequently released—ultimately to become a champion glider pilot, as gliders were the only craft German citizens were allowed to fly. Hers is a story that arguably stands as unique in the great drama of World War II.

Author : Heinz Knoke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1848326483

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I Flew for the Führer by Heinz Knoke Pdf

"This edition first published in 1991 by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited"--T.p. verso.

Author : Roger Vee
Publisher : London : Arms and Armour Press ; New York : Hippocrene Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0882544101

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Flying Minnows by Roger Vee Pdf

Author : William R. Cubbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014570066

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The War of the Cottontails by William R. Cubbins Pdf

A masterfully written story of a young American pilot's experiences as a member of the 450th Bombardment Group in the air war against Nazi Germany's Fortress in Europe in 1944. 30 photos.

Author : A. G. Sherwood
Publisher : Durango Publishing Corp.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bomber pilots
ISBN : 9781554227778

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Flying 40 Missions with Red by A. G. Sherwood Pdf

Author : Bois Sergievsky
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815604099

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Airplanes, Women, and Song by Bois Sergievsky Pdf

Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three fronts against the Bolsheviks. Coming to America in 1923, the first job he could find in New York was with a pick and shovel, digging the Holland Tunnel, but he soon joined Igor Sikorsky’s airplane company. Over the next decade as chief test pilot for the company, he tested the Sikorsky flying boats that Pan American Airways used to establish its world-wide routes, setting seventeen world aviation records along the way. Sergievsky also flew pioneering flights across unchartered African and Latin American jungles in the 1930s, flew with Charles Lindbergh, tested early helicopters and jets, and flew his own Grumman Mallard on charter flights until 1965. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women.

Author : Lawrence Paterson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526740038

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Eagles Over the Sea by Lawrence Paterson Pdf

The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany’s resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War before being committed to action from the first days of the invasion of Poland. Concurrently, the operational Luftwaffe developed its own maritime units that would eventually subsume all of the Kriegsmarine-controlled formations as the war years progressed. This new book by the well-known author of German naval operations in WWII offers, for the first time, an in-depth study of all the Luftwaffe maritime operations. This is the first of two volumes and takes the story up to 1942. The story of Luftwaffe maritime operations has frequently been written about in fragmentary terms, delineating between the planned naval air arm operating under Kriegsmarine direction and the ‘operational Luftwaffe’. Each branch of service — and even aircraft type — has usually been studied in isolation. This book, however, broadens the lens to study the development of German naval aircraft as a whole, not as separate independent services but rather as a concerted attempt to engage the enemy at sea in every theatre of operations, from Norway and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and the Eastern fronts, and, of course, over the Atlantic. Through ship-board aircraft, torpedo bomber attacks, minelaying and reconnaissance missions, Luftwaffe maritime aircraft played a vital role in Germany’s naval war and the author analyses all the operations and the successes in the early years of the War. This first volume ends in 1942 when, despite great success, petty rivalry and naked arrogance combined to foreshadow the eventual defeat of the Luftwaffe’s war at sea. Heavily illustrated throughout, this detailed and exciting operational history will be of huge appeal to both naval and aviation historians and enthusiasts.

Author : Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798703008539

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Stuka Pilot by Hans-Ulrich Rudel Pdf

World War II was the largest conflict in history. Huge formations of tanks are deployed across fronts that stretch thousands of miles. Badly outnumbered on the ground, Germany looks to a new class of aircraft, the tank-hunter, to even the odds. The most accomplished tank-hunter pilot was Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Rudel, an aerial reconnaissance pilot turned decorated dive-bomber, spearheaded the development of these new weapons and tactics. His extreme skill and courage allowed him to destroy over 500 tanks throughout the war. Rudel saw nearly every stage of World War II, from the initial advance into Poland and the Russian heartland to the desperate fighting withdrawal back into Germany. His memoirs, available once again in budget paperback form, offer students of history a unique, enlightening perspective on the most significant conflict of the modern era.