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The Warplanes of the Third Reich

Author : William Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UOM:39015002273780

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The Warplanes of the Third Reich

Author : William Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312749345

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The Warplanes of the Third Reich

Author : William Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0883656663

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Here is the definitive work on the military aircraft that evolved during the life of German's Third Reich, composed of an authoritative text that spanned two decades of research. Over 2000 black-and-white illustrations, diagrams and photographs, plus two full-color gatefolds identifying the markings and camouflage on over 70 different aircraft.

Warplanes of the Luftwaffe

Author : David Donald
Publisher : Todtri Book Pub
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1577172795

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As Hitler unleashed his terrifying Blitzkrieg against the nations of Europe, the world was stunned by his air force -- the Luftwaffe -- with its vast array of latest-technology warplanes.And yet, six years earlier the German war machine hardly existed. But from 1933 to the end of World War II, the German aviation industry was at the cutting edge of design excellence and technology, producing a series of high-performance classic designs that would have a dramatic effect on the aircraft of the future.Among the many planes described and illustrated here are such outstanding types as: -- Focke-Wulfe craft -- Heinkel fighters and bombers -- Messerschmidt attack planes and transports -- Revolutionary Junker designs -- Early jet fightersThis book describes these feats of aviation engineering. Every warplane that Hitler's Luftwaffe flew in front line combat is featured, with rare photographs, detailed artwork, and comprehensive descriptions. Here are the planes that form the foundation of modern military flying and weaponry.

Warplanes of the Luftwaffe

Author : David Donald
Publisher : Aerospace Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010521636

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Book illustrated with photos and cutaways of all types of German aircraft form the Second World War.

Aircraft of the Third Reich

Author : William Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 1900732076

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Developed from William Green's seminal work and completely updated, this volume covers over 90 aircraft types from the Gotha Go 242/Go 244 assault glider to the Junkers F.13 and G.38 interwar airliners.

X-planes and Prototypes

Author : Jim Winchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Research aircraft
ISBN : 0760770913

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Warplanes & Air Battles of World War II.

Author : Bernard Fitzsimons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 0517130882

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Fighting Hitler's Jets

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760343982

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Fighting Hitler's Jets by Robert F. Dorr Pdf

Fighting Hitler's Jets is the personal story of the American fighter pilots who defeated the German Luftwaffe in the spring and summer of 1944, only to find themselves up against Adolf Hitler's Wunderwaffen, or “wonder weapons.”

British Warplanes of World War II

Author : Daniel J. March
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 1840133910

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British Warplanes of World War II by Daniel J. March Pdf

Fully illustrated analysis of all World War II aircraft in British military service, including full descriptions and specifications, hundreds of action photos and highly accurate, full-color artwork.

Germany Vs. Great Britain in the Air

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986569527

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Germany Vs. Great Britain in the Air by Charles River Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading One of the most important breakthroughs in military technology associated with World War I, and certainly the one that continues to capture the public imagination, was the use of airplanes, which were a virtual novelty a decade before. While the war quickly ground to a halt in its first few months, the skies above the Western Front became increasingly busy. The great powers had already been acquiring aircraft for potential uses, but given that aerial warfare had never been a major component of any conflict, it's understandable that few on either side had any idea what the planes were capable of doing. Furthermore, at the start of the war, all sides' aircraft were ill-equipped for combat mostly because the idea that planes might somehow fight was still a novel one, and the adaptations had not yet been developed that would allow the aerial battles later in the war. The Royal Air Force (RAF), Britain's legendary air arm, was born in the skies above the First World War. The British had previously used balloons for spotting and reconnaissance for decades, and in the years leading up to the war, planes started seeing military use. They mostly provided reconnaissance, though experiments were made in using them offensively. During the Boer War of 1899-1902, the British Army used the crews of helium-filled balloons to plot and help target artillery fire. But these were small, tentative steps. The first patent to fit a machine gun to a plane, taken out in 1910, had not yet led to active fighting vehicles, and there was no doctrine, no tactics, and no combat between massed air fleets. That changed during World War I, as the skies above the Western Front became the crucible in which the preceding fragments of aerial warfare were smelted in the white hot heat of war. For the British, this meant the creation of a large and unified flying force which by 1918 would become the RAF. The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it proved unable to challenge Allied air superiority despite a last-minute upsurge in German aircraft production. Though the superb fighting qualities of highly trained and motivated German soldiers, and the Third Reich's technological superiority in tank and weapon design, also had crucial roles to play, the Luftwaffe represented the key element making the successes of all other branches possible. While the Luftwaffe enjoyed air superiority, the combat fortunes of the Third Reich continued to ride high. When control of the air passed decisively to the Allies, Germany's hopes of victory began accelerating into a spiral of defeat. Much of it was due to the RAF and the Battle of Britain. The largest air campaign in history at the time, the vaunted Nazi Luftwaffe sought to smash the RAF as a prelude to German invasion, leaving the British public and its pilots engaged in what they believed was a desperate fight for national survival. That's what it looked like to the rest of the world too, as free men everywhere held their breaths. Could these pilots, many not yet old enough to shave, avoid the fate of Poland and France? The fate of the free world, at least as Europe knew it, hung in the balance over the skies of Britain during those tense months. Of course, the RAF was instrumental in other ways during the war. The RAF supported Allied forces all over the world, from Norway to Burma to Tunisia, and the RAF conducted devastating bombing campaigns against German industry and cities.

The Luftwaffe

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985649802

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of fighting between the Luftwaffe and the Allies *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "My Luftwaffe is invincible...And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?" - Hermann Goering, June 1940 The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it proved unable to challenge Allied air superiority despite a last-minute upsurge in German aircraft production. Given its unique strengths and distinctive weaknesses by the personal quirks of the men who developed it, the Luftwaffe initially overwhelmed the more conservative, outdated military aviation of other countries. Its leaders embraced such concepts as the dive-bomber, which proved both utterly devastating and extremely useful for supporting the sweeping, powerful movements of Blitzkrieg, while other martial establishments rejected dive-bombers as impractical or even impossible. Though the superb fighting qualities of highly trained and motivated German soldiers, and the Third Reich's technological superiority in tank and weapon design, also had crucial roles to play, the Luftwaffe represented the key element making the successes of all other branches possible. While the Luftwaffe enjoyed air superiority, the combat fortunes of the Third Reich continued to ride high. When control of the air passed decisively to the Allies, Germany's hopes of victory began accelerating into a spiral of defeat. Early in the war, prowling masses of Luftwaffe aircraft fatally hampered the attempts of hostile forces to maneuver. The omnipresent Stuka dive-bombers crisscrossing the skies pounced on any infantry or vehicles incautious enough to emerge from hiding during the day, except in foul weather that kept the airplanes grounded. The German forces, meanwhile, moved freely and rapidly, surrounding or bypassing their enemies again and again and thus compelling their surrender. The Luftwaffe's eventual loss of aerial domination exposed the Germans to precisely the same misfortunes on the ground as they had once relentlessly inflicted on the Poles and Russians. In the Falaise Pocket in Normandy, for example, the splendidly lethal Panthers, Tigers, and Tiger II tanks of the Nazi Panzer Divisions never had the opportunity to destroy the flimsily-armored, outgunned Sherman tanks of their American opponents. Instead, American fighter-bombers systematically annihilated them and their supporting infantry formations from the air, leaving the landscape strewn with flipped-over tank hulks and in places literally carpeted with the flesh of dead men. Some 10,000 Germans died and 50,000 surrendered to the western Allies at Falaise, due to Hitler's order to counterattack without air support. During its heyday, however, the Luftwaffe amply proved the leading role played by air power in the modern combined arms formula. It also produced a remarkable number of aces, whose exploits overshadowed the finest pilots of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, or the United States. The Luftwaffe: The History of Nazi Germany's Air Force during World War II looks at the role the German air force played during the war, from its origins to its near demise. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Luftwaffe like never before, in no time at all.

Unflinching Zeal

Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511122

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This consequential work by a pioneer aviation historian fills a significant lacuna in the story of the defeat of France in May-June 1940 and more fully explains the Battle of Britain of July–October of that year and the influence it had on the Luftwaffe in the 1941 invasion of the USSR. Robin Higham approaches the subject by sketching the story and status of the three air forces--the Armée de l’Air, the Luftwaffe, and the Royal Air Force--their organization and preparation for their battles. He then dissects the the campaigns, their losses and replacement policies and abilities. He paints the struggles of France and Britain from both the background provided by his recent Two Roads to War: From Versailles to Dunkirk (NIP, 2012) and from the details of losses tabulated by After the Battle’s The Battle of Britain (1982, 2nd ed.) and Peter Cornwell’s The Battle of France Then and Now (2007), as well as in Paul Martin’s Invisible Vainqueurs (1990) and from the Luftwaffe summaries in the British National Archives Cabinet papers. One important finding is that the consumption and wastage was not nearly as high as claimed. The three air forces actually shot down only 19 percent of the number claimed. In the RAF case, in the summer of 1940, 44 percent of those shot down were readily repairable thanks to the salvage and repair organizations. This contrasted with the much lower 8 percent for the Germans and zero for the French. Brave as the aircrews may have been, the inescapable conclusion is that awareness of consumption, wastage, and sustainability were intimately connected to survival.

German Warplanes of World War II

Author : Francis K. Mason
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0517405075

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Shows and describes the capabilities of fighters, bombers, reconnaissance craft, and jets used by Nazi Germany during the war.

Hitler's Luftwaffe

Author : Tony Wood,Bill Gunston
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 051718771X

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Hitler's Luftwaffe by Tony Wood,Bill Gunston Pdf

Pounding the enemy from the skies, the German Luftwaffe was the symbol of Hitler's power. With its decline came the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. This history includes a glossary of terms and abbreviations and an appendix detailing the Luftwaffe chain of command. More than 250 authentic color photos and over 130 full-color illustrations.