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Author : Merrill Thomas Dewan
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434996565
Author : David W Braeutigam
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722028270
1st Lieutenant Carroll Gene Henry grew up in West Texas in the towns of Midland and San Angelo. Once he saw his first airplane he wanted to fly. With the advent of WWII he joined the United States Army Air Forces to be a pilot. After he failed pilot training, he became a bombardier and a navigator. He served with the 408th Bomb Squadron in the Southwest Pacific Area. This book is an overview of his life including pictures, letters, a diary he kept during the war, mission reports and newspaper clippings.
Author : Bob Drury,Tom Clavin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476774862
The "untold story of friendship, heroism and survival in World War II"--Book jacket.
Author : Bruce Gamble
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306903106
The dramatic untold story of the first US Army unit to cross the Pacific and strike back at the Japanese after Pearl Harbor In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with poor supplies and no ground support, the pilots and crew faced tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the outfit, dubbed the Kangaroo Squadron, proved remarkably resilient and successful, conducting long-range bombing raids, armed reconnaissance missions, and rescuing General MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines. Before now, the story of their courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds has largely been untold. Using eyewitness accounts based on personal diaries, letters, new interviews, and memoirs as well as Japanese sources, historian Bruce Gamble brings to vivid life this dramatic true story. But the Kangaroo Squadron's story doesn't end in World War II. One of the B-17s, crash landed on its first mission, has recently been recovered from jungle swamps. The intertwined stories of the Kangaroo Squadron and the "Swamp Ghost" are filled with thrilling accounts of aerial combat, an epic jungle survival story, and the powerful mystique of an abandoned bomber that compelled men to possess it at any cost.
Author : Stan Walsh
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781546221654
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar Chantilly, Virginia Two complete and separate design cycles chronicles our story – The B-26 Goes to War. War fever caused authorities to forego prototype testing – the B-26 went straight from drawing board to battle. The 22nd Bomb Group, with short 65 ft. wingspan B-26s entered combat in the Southwest Pacific. The Army’s Torpedo Challenge chronicles exploits in the realm of pure fantasy. Getting-it-right – Navy torpedoes on Army bombers – is intense, vivid and entertaining. Flying the “straight” uncovered deficiencies. A modified B-26B emerged with a 71 ft. wingspan. These were earmarked for combat in North Africa and Europe. For the Flak-Bait story see Appendix H. The ultramodern Martin B-26 prototype medium bomber first flown 25 November 1940 achieved a top speed of 315 mph, fastest of any U.S. bomber and narrowing the gap between its speed and that of existing Army pursuit planes. Innovations include: self-sealing gas tanks, armor plating and a full bomb load of two tons.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112042553724
Author : Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Legislation
ISBN : WISC:89096565072
Author : Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Legislative Reference Bureau
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Legislation
ISBN : WISC:89119356095
Author : Steven K. Dixon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786497980
Trained as a photo reconnaissance unit, Marine Observation Squadron 251 ended up serving as a fighter squadron for the duration of World War II, shooting down 32 Japanese aircraft. The squadron earned several awards for outstanding performance, including the Presidential Unit Citation. This book is the first to cover the World War II history of VMFA-251, one of the Marine Corps' longest-serving squadrons. The author traces their operations from the unit's activation on December 1, 1941, through Guadalcanal, the reduction of Rabaul and their missions over the Philippines in 1945.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113780790
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Animal industry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071554996
Author : Adrian R. Martin,Larry W. Stephenson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603441841
They went in as confident young warriors. They came out as battle-scarred veterans, POW camp survivors . . . or worse. The Army Air Corps’ 27th Bombardment Group arrived in the Philippines in November 1941 with 1,209 men; one year later, only 20 returned to the United States. The Japanese attacked the Philippines on the same morning as Pearl Harbor and invaded soon after. Allied air routes back to the Philippines were soon cut, forcing pilots to fight their air war from bases in Java, Australia, and New Guinea. The men on Bataan were eventually taken prisoner and forced into the infamous Death March. The 27th and other such units were pivotal in delaying the Japanese timetable for conquest. If not for these units, some have suggested, the Allied offensive in the Pacific might have started in Hawaii or even California instead of New Guinea and the surrounding islands. Based largely on primary materials, including a fifty-nine-page report written by the surviving unit members in September 1942, Operation PLUM (from the code name for the U.S. Army in the Philippines) gives an account of the 27th Bombardment Group and, through it, the opening months of the Pacific theater. Military historians and readers interested in World War II will appreciate the rich perspective presented in Operation PLUM
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Artillery
ISBN : UIUC:30112071912742
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Legislation
ISBN : NWU:35556017931759
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970-07
Category : Legislation
ISBN : PSU:000009634749