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Bomber Pilot
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Author : Philip Ardery
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2013-07-24
Bomber Pilot written by Philip Ardery and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
" 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.
The Spectator
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Author : David Zellmer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-01-30
The Spectator written by David Zellmer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-30 with History categories.
From Greenwich Village to Guadalcanal in just over a year, David Zellmer would find piloting a B-24 bomber in the South Pacific a far cry from his life as a fledgling member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. He soon discovered the unimagined thrills of first flights and the astonishment of learning that an aerial spin was merely a vertical pirouette which one spotted on a barn thousands of feet below, instead of on a doorknob in Martha's studio. Reconstructed from letters home, this captivating account traces Zellmer's journey from New York to the islands of the South Pacific as the 13th Air Force battled to push back the Japanese invaders in 1943 and 1944. Spurred to action by encouraging letters from Martha Graham, who urges him to document his participation in the great tragic play of the Second World War, Zellmer struggles to come to terms with the fears and joys of flying, of killing and being killed. Each stage of the battle takes him farther and farther from those he loves, until the soft night breezes and moon-splashed surf no longer work their magic. From bombing runs against Truk, the infamous headquarters of the Japanese Fleet, to much savored slivers of civilization in Auckland and Sydney, the young pilot bemoans a gnawing concern at a loss of sensation, the prospect of life—not as a performer, but as a spectator. With distant memories of life on the stage, he finds that only the threat of death can bring the same intensity of feeling.
Bomber Boy
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Author : Dereck French
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2020-01-15
Bomber Boy written by Dereck French and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with History categories.
A vivid and insightful account of the early World War Two air war from a bomber pilot's perspective.
Bomber Pilot
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Author : Leonard Cheshire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Bomber Pilot written by Leonard Cheshire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Bomber Pilot On The Eastern Front
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Author : Vasily Reshetnikov
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2008-09-22
Bomber Pilot On The Eastern Front written by Vasily Reshetnikov and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Soviet bomber pilot who flew more than 300 missions behind enemy lines offers a rare firsthand account of life on the Eastern Front in this WWII memoir. Soviet bombers played a vital role in defeating the Germans on the Eastern Front, yet their contribution is often forgotten. This graphic memoir should help to set the record straight. Vasily Reshetnikov, a leading Soviet bomber pilot who flew throughout the conflict, tells his story from the desperate days of the German assault in 1941 through the Russian offensive and the race to Berlin. For his heroism in combat, Reshetnikov was named a Hero oft he Soviet Union, the highest honor awarded in the Soviet military. In Bomber Pilot on the Eastern Front, he shares a vivid account of his experiences during more than three hundred bombing missions in the dangerous skies over Russia, the Ukraine, Poland and Germany.
Pathfinder Pioneer
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Author : Raymond E. Brim
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Pathfinder Pioneer written by Raymond E. Brim and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with History categories.
One young man’s story of combat in the air, constant battles for survival, and the development of radar technology for use against the Luftwaffe. This is the story of how an eighteen-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America’s air counteroffensive in Europe. Like thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked out by the US Army to be a combat flyer, and was quickly pitted against the hardened veterans of the Luftwaffe. Brim turned out to have a natural knack for flying, however, and was assigned to the select squadron developing lead pathfinder techniques, while experimenting with radar. He was among the first to test the teeth of the Luftwaffe’s defenses, and once those techniques had been honed, thousands of other bomber crews would follow into the maelstrom—from which 80,000 never returned. This book gives us vivid insights into the genesis of the American air campaign, told with the humor, attention to detail, and humility that captures the heart and soul of our “Greatest Generation.” Brim was one of the first Pathfinder pilots to fly both day and night missions, leading bomb groups of six-hundred-plus bombers to their targets. At the onset of his missions in the spring of 1943, B-17 crews were given a fifty-fifty chance of returning. All his raids were nerve-wracking forays into the unknown, struggles to survive the damage to his plane caused by flak and German fighter attacks and bring his ten-man crew home, often wounded—but still alive.
Diary Of A Night Bomber Pilot In World War I
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Author : Clive Semple
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2008-03-28
Diary Of A Night Bomber Pilot In World War I written by Clive Semple and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-28 with History categories.
Flying at 18, demobbed at 20, Semple's astonishing experience has been meticulously put into context. How do you fly a Handley Page across France in total darkness? The answer is the 'Lighthouse system', just one of the revelations in this unique record of ingenuity and courage.
Surviving The Skies
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Author : Joe Bamford
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2012-08-01
Surviving The Skies written by Joe Bamford and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with History categories.
Captain Stephen Wynn Vickers joined the Cheshire Regiment in August 1914, but after being badly wounded he remustered to the RFC (Royal Flying Corps). While other young pilots were killed or injured almost as soon as they got their wings, Captain Vickers survived numerous crash and forced landings. He joined 101 Squadron in 1917 and completed seventy-three sorties over enemy territory before being repatriated in May 1918 and awarded the newly inaugurated DFC, as well as the MC. With the war drawing to a close, he became a flying instructor at an RAF station in Lincolnshire, but he did not live long enough to receive either his medals or the distinction that he deserved. Making use of an array of unpublished material, including original images and information collected directly from Vickers' family, former RAF air traffic controller Joe Bamford recounts on of the final original stories of the First World War night bombers.
Portrait Of A Bomber Pilot
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Author : Christopher Jary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Portrait Of A Bomber Pilot written by Christopher Jary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Air pilots categories.
A Thousand Shall Fall
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Author : Murray Peden
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2003-04-01
A Thousand Shall Fall written by Murray Peden and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the finest war memoirs ever written. During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil. Murray Peden’s story of his training in Canada and England, and his crew’s operations on Stirlings and Flying Fortresses with 214 Squadron, has been hailed as a classic of war literature. It is a fine blend of the excitement, humour, and tragedy of that eventful era.