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Flying Flak Alley

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Author : Alan L. Griggs
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-28

Flying Flak Alley written by Alan L. Griggs and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with History categories.

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities. The guts and glory of the bomber crews came, however, with a high casualty rate which had only improved marginally by the war's end. Descriptions of the bombers' harrowing missions told from the firsthand perspective of their pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners create the immediacy of a single person's experience during one of America's most daring military expeditions. A short biography of each veteran accompanies these tales of typical and not-so-typical missions.

Another Trip To Flak Alley

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Author : Jack Hope
language : en
Publisher: FeedARead.com
Release Date : 2017-01-23

Another Trip To Flak Alley written by Jack Hope and has been published by FeedARead.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with History categories.

Jack Hope was an extraordinary man - a pioneer in his day. This personal account follows the journey of his life, inviting the reader to walk beside him every step of the way, experiencing the pleasure and the pain from the moment of his birth to present day. Born in Kelly Army Airfield amidst the constant sound of aircraft, he wondered in later years if that might account for his lifetime affinity with flying. However, he first had to pass a tortuous initiation period for survival as, even in childhood, he worked alongside his family, in a time dominated by The Depression in America, leading a nomadic existence. They worked on farms and ranches during which times were so hard their family became fragmented, scattered throughout the State, in various degrees of despair. Hard to imagine then that, with the onset of war, Jack and his two brothers initially joined the Army, serving in the Cavalry Division, before finding his true Calling as a Tail Gunner in Lt Brookshire's crew, serving under the U.S 8th Air Force's 36th Bomb Squadron Radar Counter Measures. The experiences which shaped his life are shared in his own hand, through writings and photographs of the day, in the hope that people will remember and honour those who did not return. In so doing, Jack leaves a legacy which will live on for the future, long after he is gone.

The Pointblank Directive

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Author : L. Douglas Keeney
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-18

The Pointblank Directive written by L. Douglas Keeney and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-18 with History categories.

Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? Following decades of debate, 2010 saw a formerly classified history restored and in it was a new set of answers. Pointblank is the result of extensive new research that creates a richly textured portrait of perhaps the last untold story of D-Day: three uniquely talented men and why the German Air Force was unable to mount an effective combat against the invasion forces. Following a year of unremarkable bombing against German aircraft industries, General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, placed his lifelong friend General Carl A. “Tooey” Spaatz in command of the strategic bombing forces in Europe, and his protégé, General James “Jimmy” Doolittle, command of the Eighth Air Force in England. For these fellow aviation strategists, he had one set of orders – sweep the skies clean of the Luftwaffe by June 1944. Spaatz and Doolittle couldn't do that but they could clear the skies sufficiently to gain air superiority over the D-Day beaches. The plan was called Pointblank.

Mig Alley

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Author : William T. Y'Blood
language : en
Publisher: Department of the Air Force
Release Date : 2000

Mig Alley written by William T. Y'Blood and has been published by Department of the Air Force this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.

For a carnivore there is nothing more satisfying than a pink and succulent T-bone steak, the sizzle of well-seasoned chicken on a barbecue, or a serve of crispy, roast pork crackling. Off The Bone gives both classic and contemporary recipes for cooking 'bone-in meat' - that is, meat that hasn't been flleted, and is cooked and served with the bone included. The benefits of these cuts are endless. The bone acts as a heat-conductor, so the meat cooks more evenly but still retains its juiciness. The cuts are typically cheaper, but no less tasty that their fileted counterparts. Recipes in this book are suitable for both novice and experienced cooks. If you're ever at a loss for what meat to choose, your local butcher will be knowledgeable about every type and portion of meat, and can advise on what will suit your taste and needs.

Air Force Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-07

Air Force Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with Aeronautics categories.

Flying Into Hell

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Author : Mel Rolfe
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2008-07-15

Flying Into Hell written by Mel Rolfe and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-15 with History categories.

Vivid World War II stories of the brave men of Bomber Command and their adventures from the bestselling author of To Hell and Back and Hell on Earth. Mel Rolfe brings the reader real-life stories of bomber command at war with his new book Flying into Hell. A journalist by profession, Rolfe has conducted his interviews and prepared the stories in such a way as to take the reader into the events as they happened. To read these accounts is to step back into the war itself . . . Returning to a French village three years after baling out from a blazing bomber, a former rear gunner was shown the site of his supposed grave. He had been so badly burned a French doctor had left him alone in a graveyard to die. He met again the brave people who had looked after him until he was well enough to join a group walking to freedom across the Pyrenees. Other stories include a bomber that came down so low over the sea to escape ack-ack guns that it struck the water and managed to claw its way back up into the sky; the Lancaster pilot who wore Hermann Goering’s Iron Cross around his neck as a lucky charm; a gunner incarcerated in Buchenwald; and a flight engineer who lost his fingers to frostbite after the bomber’s rear door was blown open. Many of these stories demonstrate the amazing resilience of the human spirit, and the unwavering courage of the young men who helped bomb the enemy into submission. They are illustrated with photographs, most of which have not been published before.

I Will Tell No War Stories

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Author : Howard Mansfield
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-04-16

I Will Tell No War Stories written by Howard Mansfield and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with History categories.

When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d experienced in war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say. Cleaning up the old family house the year before his father's death, Mansfield was surprised to find a short diary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. Mansfield began to fill in the details, and to be surprised again, this time by a history he thought he knew. I Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in a family and in a society that has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war. Some part of that forgetting was necessary for the veterans, otherwise how could they come home, how could they find peace? I Will Tell No War Stories is also about learning to live with history, a theme Mansfield explored in earlier books like In the Memory House, which The New York Times called “a wise and beautiful book” and The Same Ax,Twice, said by the Times to be “filled with insight and eloquence … a brilliant book.”

Flying Nightmare

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Author : John Halliwell
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-03-09

Flying Nightmare written by John Halliwell and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with categories.

This book is about what happened to a young 17 year old when Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. What was he to do, go on to college, get a job, continue with a normal life? No! That would have to wait. Two years later, a newly assigned B-24 bomber needed a name. "Nightmare" was offered up to its crew by me, now its co-pilot, as the name would relative to what was to come. The name did relate to what was to come, but it actually was the result of a nightmare I had after viewing a newscast at the start of World War II. It showed a Japanese soldier tossing a baby up in the air and then with a grin catching it on the way down with his rifle's bayonet. This was intended to incite rage in the population. It did! The rage and disgust could not be exaggerated. It lingered and still does. Nevertheless, Nightmare went on to be assigned to the 459th Bomb Group of the 15th U.S. Airforce. The book includes descriptive diaries of bombing missions over Nazi Germany, Southern France and the WWII occupied Balkans, some as written by crews in our adjoining flight squadrons. Also included are photos of bomb run casualties, some planes engulfed in flames from ruptured gas tanks, some crews escaping in parachutes, some of these on fire, some planes in stages of disintegrating from being hit by exploding anti-aircraft shells. One of these did penetrate our own pilot's compartment wounding me and exploding as it passed through the roof. Halfway through our 50 mission tour of duty, it was realized that our losses, in term of planes shot down, were about 50% of the original assignment of bombers. Some crews were quitting, turning in their "Flight Wings." Those that stayed did so with quiet resolve, comradery, frightened, relying on faith. In the very beginning, of course it was all heroics, a young Army Airforce Lieutenant with pilot wings, and a snappy grey-green uniform. Aerobatics and fighter plane training made us feel invincible. After about six weeks of our bomb group training, the 459th departed Westover Field, Massachusetts for solo routing to stop overs in Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Belem Brazil, Dakar Africa and finally to a home base make-do landing field in Cerignola, Italy. Next came the missions, every other day, sometimes every day. The author is a prime participant, the bomber's co-pilot, twice wounded

One More Mission

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Author : Jesse Pettey
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2003-09-18

One More Mission written by Jesse Pettey and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

How often is it that we are fortunate enough to sit down and listen to first-person accounts of a distant past - not from a history book or a television documentary, but from a human being, who lived it, experienced it and is willing to share it. Jesse Pettey is one of these people who as a young man joined the military after the attack on Pearl Harbor because he felt it was his duty. He learned to fly a PT-19 and moved on to a BT-13. During World War Two, Pettey piloted a B-24 'Liberator' and flew his first combat mission in August of 1944, to be followed by 34 more. One More Mission is not only an account of World War Two aerial combat missions with the 15th Air Force in Italy, but of a young man's journey through a gauntlet of emotion, growth and trying experiences. Mr. Pettey's glimpses into his past are a heartwarming journey to a different era, a different pace and a different lifestyle. His talent carries the reader along through his upbringing in East Texas through the precarious days of flight training and then on to the dangerous excitement of deadly combat over the skies of Europe. And all the while, you feel as if he's sitting across a table from you with a cup of coffee in hand, sharing the times of his life with a close friend. His story is well written yet personal, inspiring and yet humble. It is a story that demands sharing. One More Mission is a journey not to be missed. Reviewed by Denise M. Clark 6/2002: www.deniseclark.com

Flak

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Author : Edward B. Westermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Flak written by Edward B. Westermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with increasing frequency as World War II ground to a close, were more than mere stock material for movie melodramas. As Edward Westermann reveals, they point to a key but largely unappreciated aspect of the German war effort that has yet to get its full due.Long the neglected stepchild in studies of World War II air campaigns, German flak or anti-aircraft units have been frequently dismissed by American, British, and German historians (and by veterans of the European air war) as ineffective weapons that wasted valuable materiel and personnel resources desperately needed elsewhere by the Third Reich. Westermann emphatically disagrees with that view and makes a convincing case for the significant contributions made by the entire range of German anti-aircraft defenses.During the Allied air campaigns against the Third Reich, well over a million tons of bombs were dropped upon the German homeland, killing nearly 300,000 civilians, wounding another 780,000, and destroying more than 3,500,000 industrial and residential structures. Not surprisingly, that aerial Armageddon has inspired countless studies of both the victorious Allied bombing offensive and the ultimately doomed Luftwaffe defense of its own skies. By contrast, flak units have virtually been ignored, despite the fact that they employed more than a million men and women, were responsible for more than half of all Allied aircraft losses, forced Allied bombers to fly far abovehigh-accuracy altitudes, and thus allowed Germany to hold out far longer than it might have otherwise.Westermann's definitive study sheds new light on every facet of the development and organization of this vital defense arm, includi