Gunning For The Enemy
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Gunning For The Enemy
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Author : Wallace McIntosh
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Gunning For The Enemy written by Wallace McIntosh and has been published by Grub Street Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
When the Bank of Scotland carried out a recent survey asking people to name Great Scots, 'Wallace McIntosh - War Hero' was chosen amongst such illustrious names as John Logie Baird, David Livingstone and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born into grinding poverty and brought up in awful circumstances by his grandparents he managed to join the R.A.F. to escape the constant struggle to survive. Only by a fluke was he trained as an air gunner, then to fly over fifty missions, shooting down eight enemy aircraft - an amazing and unique feat - including three in one night. Merely staying alive was an incredible challenge and he had many hairy incidents, all related here in his moving and uplifting story. Wallace was a remarkable and unforgettable character who overcame all the appalling odds, creating hope from nothing to become the most decorated air gunner ever.
Gunning For The Enemy
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Author : Wallace McIntosh
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2003-08-19
Gunning For The Enemy written by Wallace McIntosh and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The World War II exploits of the legendary RAF air gunner, “a true hero who repeatedly cheated death,” from the author of Flying into Hell (The Times). Born into grinding poverty in Scotland, Wallace McIntosh had not heard of Christmas until he was seven, and never celebrated his birthday until his late teens, but he could steal, kill and skin a sheep before he was twelve and snare anything that could be cooked in a pot. Leaving school at thirteen he was determined to escape the constant struggle to survive. Gunning for the Enemy tells the moving story of how the RAF finally accepted McIntosh after at first rejecting him, but then initially gave him the lowliest of jobs. Only by a fluke was he trained as an air gunner. During his time with 207 Squadron, based at Langar, Nottinghamshire and Spilsby, Lincolnshire, he flew over fifty sorties in World War Two. Although Bomber Command did not record details of “kills” by air gunners, Wallace, who shot down eight enemy aircraft with one probable, is widely believed to be its top sharpshooter and at one time he was its most decorated also. He had many hairy incidents and his prodigious memory for detail enables him to recall numerous amazing escapes from death and how each and every night he and his comrades dramatically took the war to the enemy. This is a story of outstanding courage, told with wit, pace and honesty by Mel Rolfe who has previously enjoyed acclaim with such books as To Hell and Back, Hell on Earth and Flying into Hell.
Gunning For The Enemy
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Author : Sid Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Gunning For The Enemy written by Sid Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with British categories.
Gunning For The Red Baron
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Author : Leon Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2006
Gunning For The Red Baron written by Leon Bennett and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The daring air aces of World War I faced more than the enemy when they took to the sky - they faced the odds. Their chances of being hit were high; the odds of their hitting the enemy were low. One pilot, French Captain Albert Moris, reported 400 hits to his aircraft in his 253 hours of flying, more than a hit per hour. Even the most maneuverable of the British fighters, the Sopwith Camel, lost as many machines as its pilots shot down. Pilots flying Camels rang up 1,294 victories, but 1,500 machines were lost to accidents and enemy fire, and many Camel pilots died within weeks of entering combat. Was it luck or skill that sustained the Red Baron, the German ace who flew, fought, and thrived until he was finally shot down in April 1918? Gunning for the Red Baron gives the lowdown on why it was so hard to score a hit, what qualities helped the aces succeed, and the weapons and planes that were celebrated in the air war to end wars. Most basically, this richly illustrated book explains why aim was so notoriously bad. London's Public Records Office, and careful study of Great War technology, author Leon Bennett analyzes combat sequences, the arts of aerial gunnery, and the weapons themselves. His detailed insight into the mechanics of air warfare allows him to reach some startling conclusions about one of the enduring controversies of World War I: what finally brought the Red Baron down.
Defense
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Defense written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with United States categories.
The Doomed Expedition
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Author : Jack Adams
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 1989-06-05
The Doomed Expedition written by Jack Adams and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06-05 with History categories.
A gripping account of the disastrous first significant land encounter of WWII, focusing on the areas of Narvik and Bodö-Mosjöen, Namsos and Aandalsnes. In the early hours of 9 April 1940, the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway. Within twenty-four hours, Denmark was overwhelmed and the main Norwegian airfields and seaports were under German control. Thus started the first confrontation in modern war in which combined operations on land, sea, and in the air were fully involved. Reluctantly the Allies launched Anglo-French landings in the Lofoten Islands and in Central Norway. At the outset, serious liaison, command and, above all, communication problems arose. The urgent military needs of the Norwegians, with their King and government pursued by the Germans, were tragically misrepresented and never fully understood by the Allied politicians. On another level, personality clashes between senior commanders further confused conditions in the field, where lack of air cover, supporting arms, and equipment made the task of the comparatively few combatants almost impossible to perform. Heroic battles and humiliating retreats led to the inevitable evacuation of an Allied expedition doomed from the start.
Air Service Information Circular Heavier Than Air
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Author : United States. Army. Air Corps
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Air Service Information Circular Heavier Than Air written by United States. Army. Air Corps and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Aeronautics categories.
Men Behind The Medals
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Author : Graham Pitchfork
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 1990-12-31
Men Behind The Medals written by Graham Pitchfork and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12-31 with History categories.
This book pays tribute to the quite remarkable bravery of those young men who risked, and all too often lost, their lives for their country during the war. The author, himself a distinguished Royal Air Force officer, has singled out twenty-one men to represent 'the many' to whom he dedicated the book; but he has chosen them with care to illustrate, as far as possible, the wide scope of the duties of the Royal Air Force in wartime.
Operations In North Africa And The Middle East 1942 1944
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Author : John Grehan
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Operations In North Africa And The Middle East 1942 1944 written by John Grehan and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with History categories.
Despatches in this volume include the despatch fo the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 to February 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief British land Forces, Middle East; despatch on Operation Torch, the landings in North Africa, by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham; and the despatch in operations in North Africa November 1942 to May 1943, by Lieutenant-General K.A.N. Anderson, General Officer Commander-in-Chief, 1st Army. This unique collection of original documents will provide to be an inevitable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British Military history.
In An Enemy S Country
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Author : Jim Fraiser
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2014-10-24
In An Enemy S Country written by Jim Fraiser and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-24 with Fiction categories.
"Liberty is fleeting; terrorism is eternal!" Or so discovers Assistant US Attorney and widower John Ferguson while reading an ancient manuscript purporting to be that of Thomas Jefferson's 1784 Paris diary, between handling a perplexing new case and rearing a precocious four-year-old son and bright-but-troubled teenage daughter. But when he discovers that the political protester he's prosecuting for assault on a federal marshal may be linked to a terrorist organization seemingly intent on wreaking havoc in his Jackson, Mississippi, hometown, and a mysterious new love interest suddenly appears on his doorstep, he finds himself locked in a life and death struggle with a brilliant but demented revolutionary dedicated to the destruction of all Ferguson holds dear and nothing less than the eradication of the American way of life.