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Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher : Ihs Global Incorporated
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0710600380
A day by day operational record of the United States 8th Air Force which was based in the United Kingdom during World War II.
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman,Alan Crouchman,Vic Maslen
Publisher : Arms & Armour Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1854090712
Dagbog for perioden 2. juni 1942 til 8. maj 1945 for US 8th Air Force deltagelse i 2. Verdenskrig.
Author : Roger Freemen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0867205601
Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89059463042
Includes aircraft and crews from every U.S. Eighth Air Force base operational in Britain in WWII. The author is a leading historian.
Author : T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson, Ed.S.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452052021
This is the story of Eighth Air Force bombing missions leaving England to blast targets in Hitler's Third Reich in 1944–45. Each clear day, the skies filled with hundreds of B17 Flying Fortress bombers and their escorts crossing the English Channel toward enemy targets protected by anti-aircraft batteries and German fighters waiting to attack the heavy bombers. The skies over the target were filled with black flak appearing to be so thick you could walk on it! The exploding shells filled the space with flying chunks of iron as bombers started their bomb run on the target. We often could hear the flak pelting our plance like a "buckshot" on a tin roof. This flak would often strike a vital part of the plane or wound a member of the crew! Our waist gunner was wounded on our tenth mission!Some missions we could count hundreds of holes in our plane after we landed safely in England! Bombers receiving a direct hit were blown out of the sky and another ten man aircrew was lost. Planes severely damaged had to drop out of formation and face enemy fighters alone unless some of our P-51 or P-47 escort fighters protected them. Bombers disabled or on fire had no choice but to order the crews to bail out. Airmen who survived the parachute jump were captured and placed into German prisoner of war camps (POW). They were classified as "missing in action". Forty-eight photos, some sixty years old are included in this 350 page book to illustrate the story of the author's childhood in the Great Depression through the great air war of World War II. A description of each mission from a sixty year old diary is included. I think you will enjoy the story of a teenage Radio-Gunner's experiences in the Mighty Eighth Air Force.
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0304357081
A must-have classic. Mostly taken by members of “Mighty” Eighth Air Force, this wonderful selection portrays the American aircraft and their crews deployed to Britain in 1942. The daring and danger of those days comes across in a uniquely personal perspective, in photos of bases, aircraft in action and on the ground, nose art, and airfields and countryside from high above. Nearly 600 photos, arranged alphabetically by home base. “A brilliant gallery of memories.”—Hobby Merchandiser.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428910812
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1854095315
The US 8th Air Force was based in the UK from 1942 onwards, spread exclusively across East Anglia and operating from over 40 locations. The remains of some of these sites can still be found and a few are still airfields. The 8th flew intensive bomber and fighter sorties over Europe. Over 2000 aircraft, mostly B-17s, B-26s and P-47s, involving 150,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high-altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual Allied success.
Author : Donald Caldwell
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461751205
Day-by-day account of a German fighter squadron, one of only two Luftwaffe units to spend the entire war in the West Covers the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Dieppe raid, and more JG 26 was known as "The Abbeville Boys" and seen by the Allies as an elite squadron Unit flew Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Focke-Wulf Fw 190s
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0304358460
Putting into the air the largest striking force ever committed to battle was a highly complex task and remains one of the great achievements of the war. With more than three hundred photographs and dozens of line drawings, this book relates the procedures and the improvisations that lay behind the success of this mighty air force. Over 1,700 aircraft at a time, involving 15,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual allied success.
Author : Thurman Shuller
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780875657844
Colonel Thurman Shuller’s war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O’clock High was based on Shuller during his time as Group Surgeon of the famed 306th Bomb Group at Thurleigh, England, where he struggled with finding medical solutions for high altitude frostbite, oxygen deprivation, combat fatigue, and a growing crisis of hopelessness among the air crews. Shuller campaigned for setting the maximum number of missions for air crews to fly in a combat tour and argued for the elimination of "Maximum Effort" missions that forced them back to base from furloughs and passes. Shuller’s diary brings his wartime experience back to life. His descriptions of the journey across the North Atlantic in the nose of a B-17 Flying Fortress are vivid and personal. His accounts about life among the British during the war bring a fresh look at the air war as it emerged from the pleasant meadowlands of East Anglia. Royalties for the book are being donated to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force (www.mightyeighth.org).
Author : Sy M. Kahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 0252069080
When Sy Kahn set off to serve in the Pacific during World War II, he was a bookish, naive nineteen-year-old, the youngest in his company. Convinced he would not survive the war, Kahn kept a meticulous record of his experiences as his "foxhole of the mind," even though keeping such a journal was forbidden by military regulations. His secret diary--one soldier's "mark against oblivion"--is a rare ground-level account of the war. Often writing in tents by candlelight, in foxholes, or on board ships, Kahn documents life during four campaigns and over three hundred air attacks. He describes the 244th Port Company's backbreaking work of loading and unloading ships, the suffocating heat, the debilitating tropical diseases, and the relentless, sometimes terrifying bombings, accidents, casualties, and deaths. His wartime odyssey also includes encounters with civilians in Australia, in the Philippines, and, as among the earliest occupation troops, in Japan. A detailed record of the daily cost of war, Kahn's journal reflects his increasing maturity and his personal coming of age, representative of thousands of young Americans who served in World War II.
Author : Harry H. Crosby
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504067324
“A compelling account of the air war against Germany” written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV’s Masters of the Air (Publishers Weekly). They began operations out of England in the spring of ’43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the “Bloody Hundredth” a legend. Harry H. Crosby—depicted in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg—arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last. After dealing with his fear and gaining in skill and confidence, he was promoted to Group Navigator, surviving hairbreadth escapes and eluding death while leading thirty-seven missions, some of them involving two thousand aircraft. Now, in a breathtaking and often humorous account, he takes us into the hearts and minds of these intrepid airmen to experience both the triumph and the white-knuckle terror of the war in the skies. “Affecting . . . A vivid account . . . Uncommonly thoughtful recollections that address the moral ambiguities of a great cause without in any way denigrating the selfless valor or camaraderie that helped ennoble it.” —Kirkus Reviews “Re-creates for us the sense of how it was when European skies were filled with noise and danger, when the fate of millions hung in the balance. An evocative and excellent memoir.” —Library Journal “The acrid stench of fear and cordite, the coal burning stoves, the heroics, the losses . . . This has to be the best memoir I have read, bar none.” —George Hicks, director of the Airmen Memorial Museum
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : NWU:35556003741006
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UIUC:30112106711945