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Pictorial History Of The Mediterranean Air War Raf 1943 45
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Author : Christopher F. Shores
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Pictorial History Of The Mediterranean Air War Raf 1943 45 written by Christopher F. Shores and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Pictorial History Of The Mediterranean Air War Raf 1943 45
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Author : Christopher F. Shores
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Pictorial History Of The Mediterranean Air War Raf 1943 45 written by Christopher F. Shores and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945
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Author : Christopher Shores
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2018-11-05
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945 written by Christopher Shores and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with History categories.
This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in northwest France. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined, while they remained based in North Africa, with the narrative continuing in a future volume. This volume also delves into the story of “the soldiers’ air force.” Frequently overshadowed by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, the soldiers’ struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. “No future publication on the Mediterranean air war will be credible without use of this series.” —Air Power History
Pictorial History Of The Mediterranean Air War Axis Air Forces 1940 45
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Author : Christopher F. Shores
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Pictorial History Of The Mediterranean Air War Axis Air Forces 1940 45 written by Christopher F. Shores and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945 Volume 5
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Author : Christopher Shores
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-03
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945 Volume 5 written by Christopher Shores 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 2021-12-03 with History categories.
“This international collaboration between air war historians is simply fantastic. . . . a deep-dive on the operations in a vast and very important theater of war.” —Air Classics During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This was despite the steady withdrawal of units to more demanding areas. This fifth volume of the series describes in detail the activities of the Allied tactical air forces in support of the armies on the ground as their opponents were steadily extracted from northern Italy and the Balkans for the final defense of the central European homeland. The book commences with coverage of the final fierce air-sea battles over the Aegean that preceded the advance northward to Rome and the ill-conceived British attempt to secure the Dodecanese islands following the armistice with Italy. The authors also deal fully and comprehensively with the advance northward following the occupation of Rome, and the departure of forces to support the invasion of France from the Riviera coast, coupled with the formation of a new Balkan Air Force in eastern Italy to pursue the German armies withdrawing from Yugoslavia and take possession of newly freed Greece. The effect of the creation within the same area of the US and RAF strategic forces to join the Allied Combined Bombing Offensive is also discussed. Includes photographs “Reflects the scope of a remarkable research effort and provides valuable detail that the reader is not going to find between two covers elsewhere.” —The NYMAS Review
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945 Volume 2
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Author : Christopher Shores
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-19
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945 Volume 2 written by Christopher Shores 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 2014-07-19 with History categories.
This second volume in the seminal series on aerial combat, pilots, and tactics in Libya and Egypt in the middle of World War II. In volume two of this series, historian Christopher Shores begins by exploring the 8th Army’s movements after Operation Crusader when they were forced back to the Gazala area in northeastern Libya, as well as their defeat in June, 1942, the loss of Tobruk, and the efforts of Allied air forces to protect their retreating troops. Shores continues with the heavy fighting that followed in the El Alamein region. This features the Western Desert Air Force and the arrival of the first Spitfires. The buildup of both army and air forces and the addition of new commanders on the ground aided the defeat of Rommel’s Deutsche Afrika Korps at Alam el Halfa, after which came the Second Battle of El Alamein. With the arrival of the United States Army Air Force, the Allied air forces gained dominance over the Axis. Shores recounts the lengthy pursuit of the Italo-German forces right across Libya, including the capture of Tripoli and the breakthrough into Southern Tunisia. This allowed a linkup with other Allied forces in Tunisia (whose story appears in Volume 3). Included with the action are stories of some of the great fighter aces of the Desert campaign such as Jochen Marseille and Otto Schulz of the Luftwaffe, Franco Bordoni-Bisleri of the Regia Aeronautica and Neville Duke, Billy Drake, and “Eddie” Edwards of the Commonwealth air forces. Finally, Shores touches on the Allied and Axis night bombing offensives and the activities of the squadrons cooperating with the naval forces in the Mediterranean.
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945
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Author : Christopher Shores
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2012-06-19
A History Of The Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945 written by Christopher Shores and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with History categories.
This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that “reads like an encyclopedia on the subject” (Portland Book Review). In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought battles were conducted in the harsh desert. But before anyone could claim victory on the ground, they had to hold dominion in the air. Here, historian Christopher Shores has combined his books Fighters over the Desert and Fighters over Tunisia into one volume, as well as adding updated information about the deadly fighter aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, and maritime units active in the Mediterranean. Full of in-depth research and featuring essential maps, this is “an intimate introspection by these men of their experiences and the respect that they shared not only for each other but also their adversaries” (The Military Reviewer).
The First Air War
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Author : Terry C. Treadwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The First Air War written by Terry C. Treadwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Compact Timeline Of Aviation History
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Author : Anthony A. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Release Date : 2008
The Compact Timeline Of Aviation History written by Anthony A. Evans and has been published by Worth Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Technology & Engineering categories.
'The Compact Timeline of Aviation History' encompasses the entire history of flight, from the days of legends, balloons and gliders to the latest high-tech aircraft.
The Mediterranean Air War
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Author : Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2015-03-27
The Mediterranean Air War written by Robert S. Ehlers, Jr. and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with History categories.
Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942–1944, the Normandy landings—and so, perhaps, the Second World War II—would have ended differently. This is one of many lessons of The Mediterranean Air War, the first one-volume history of the vital role of airpower during the three-year struggle for control of the Mediterranean Basin in World War II—and of its significance for the Allied successes in the war's last two years. Airpower historian Robert S. Ehlers opens his account with an assessment of the pre-war Mediterranean theater, highlighting the ways in which the players' strategic choices, strengths, and shortcomings set the stage for and ultimately shaped the air campaigns over the Middle Sea. Beginning with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Ehlers reprises the developing international crisis—initially between Britain and Italy, and finally encompassing France, Germany, the US, other members of the British Commonwealth, and the Balkan countries. He then explores the Mediterranean air war in detail, with close attention to turning points, joint and combined operations, and the campaign's contribution to the larger Allied effort. In particular, his analysis shows how and why the success of Allied airpower in the Mediterranean laid the groundwork for combined-arms victories in the Middle East, the Indian Ocean area, North Africa, and the Atlantic, northwest Europe. Of grand-strategic importance from the days of Ancient Rome to the Great-Power rivalries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Middle Sea was no less crucial to the Allied forces and their foes. Here, in the successful offensives in North Africa in 1942 and 1943, the US and the British learned to conduct a coalition air and combined-arms war. Here, in Sicily and Italy in 1943 and 1944, the Allies mastered the logistics of providing air support for huge naval landings and opened a vital second aerial front against the Third Reich, bombing critical oil and transportation targets with great effectiveness. The first full examination of the Mediterranean theater in these critical roles—as a strategic and tactical testing ground for the Allies and as a vital theater of operations in its own right—The Mediterranean Air War fills in a long-missing but vital dimension of the history of World War II.