Two Man Air Force

Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819979

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American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge in England. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy aircraft destroyed. Major Gentile had scored 22 air and 6 ground kills before he was returned to the USA to help raise money for the war effort. Major Godfrey was credited with 18 air and 12 ground kills before he was shot down and taken prisoner of war. This is the story of their amazing adventures and wartime partnership from their basic training in Canada and then onto England where they first flew the Supermarine Spitfire. It continues with their transfer to the USAAF 4th Fighter Group when the US entered the war and when the two were retrained to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt and eventually the superb P-51 Mustang. These two ace pilots loved life as much as flying - and as well as being hell-bent on destroying the enemy in the skies of Europe they also lived life to the full in their off-duty time in England.

Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844151776

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Two-Man Air Force by Philip Kaplan Pdf

American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge in England. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy aircraft destroyed. Major Gentile had scored 22 air and 6 ground kills before he was returned to the USA to help raise money for the war effort. Major Godfrey was credited with 18 air and 12 ground kills before he was shot down and taken prisoner of war. This is the story of their amazing adventures and wartime partnership from their basic training in Canada and then onto England where they first flew the Supermarine Spitfire. It continues with their transfer to the USAAF 4th Fighter Group when the US entered the war and when the two were retrained to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt and eventually the superb P-51 Mustang. These two ace pilots loved life as much as flying - and as well as being hell-bent on destroying the enemy in the skies of Europe they also lived life to the full in their off-duty time in England.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : OSU:32435061974077

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Air Force and Space Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3603708

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Armed Services by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Military bases
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006342229

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Hearings on H.R. 11833 [H.R. 12384]--to authorize certain construction at military installations, and for other purposes by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Military bases
ISBN : LOC:00185819711

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Hearings on H.R. 11833 [H.R. 12384] to Authorize Certain Construction at Military Installations, and for Other Purposes, Before Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session .... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities Pdf

Author : Preller Geldenhuys
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780994115416

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Rhodesian Air Force Operations by Preller Geldenhuys Pdf

This book records the operations of the Rhodesian Air Force. It includes a log of over 1100 airstrikes carried out as well as maps where most of these strikes have been meticulously plotted. The maps are in full colour. Numerous photographs illustrate the text. The author has produced a comprehensive account of the Air Force role in the war in Rhodesia - Zimbabwe. The work includes one of the most detailed summaries of Rhodesian military operations to have been published, and in this respect serves as an excellent work or reference to those historians and collectors of militaria. It is a book that fills in much detail.A comprehensive index is included. To the very end the Air Force kept up its valiant task of securing the airspace for the troops, the BSAP, the farmers and industry. All in all this is a highly readable, extremely detailed account of the Air Force's part in the war against terrorism

Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Industrial engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951002953176O

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Air Force Management Engineering Program (MEP) by United States. Department of the Air Force Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UGA:32108053216548

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Air Force Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Major Don Salvatore Gentile
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894483

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One-Man Airforce [Illustrated Edition] by Major Don Salvatore Gentile Pdf

Illustrated with 14 photos of the Author and the Aircraft he flew. Gentile was born in Piqua, Ohio. After a fascination with flying as a child, his father provided him with his own plane, an Aerosport Biplane. He managed to log over 300 hours flying time by July 1941, when he attempted to join the Army Air Force. The U.S. military required two years of college for its pilots, which Gentile did not have, so he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was posted to the UK in 1941. Gentile flew the Supermarine Spitfire Mark V with No. 133 Squadron, one of the famed "Eagle Squadron" during 1942. His first kills (a Ju 88 and Fw 190) were on August 1, 1942, during Operation Jubilee. In September 1942, the Eagle squadrons transferred to the USAAF, becoming the 4th Fighter Group. Gentile became a flight commander in September 1943, now flying the P-47 Thunderbolt. Having been Spitfire pilots, Gentile and the other pilots of the 4th were displeased when they transitioned to the heavy P-47. By late 1943, Group Commander Col. Don Blakeslee pushed for re-equipment with the lighter, more maneuverable P-51 Mustang. Conversion to the P-51B at the end of February 1944 allowed Gentile to build a tally of 15.5 additional aircraft destroyed between March 3 and April 8, 1944. After downing 3 planes on April 8, he was the top scoring 8th Air Force ace when he crashed his personal P-51, named "Shangri La", on April 13, 1944 while stunting over the 4th FG’s airfield at Debden for a group of assembled press reporters and movie cameras. Blakeslee immediately grounded Gentile as a result, and he was sent back to the US for a tour selling war bonds. In 1944, Gentile co-wrote with well-known war correspondent Ira Wolfert One Man Air Force, an autobiography and account of his combat missions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2034 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006342393

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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 5
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822019305069

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Military Construction Authorization, Fiscal Year 1975 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 5 Pdf

Author : Tom Slear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Athletes
ISBN : UOM:39015029075283

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Achieving Excellence by Tom Slear Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Athletes
ISBN : IND:30000139853091

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Achieving Excellence by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Construction
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00185819760

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Military Construction Authorization Fiscal Year 1969 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Construction Pdf