Flak Bait The Story Of The Men Who Flew The Martin Marauders
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Flak Bait the Story of the Men who Flew the Martin Marauders
Author | : Devon Francis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105080750719 |
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Marauder Men
Author | : John O. Moench |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : WISC:89073154346 |
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United States Air Force and Its Antecedents
Author | : James T. Controvich,Martin Gordon |
Publsiher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810850109 |
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This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.
The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II
Author | : Donal Sexton |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 767 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135906863 |
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The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War. With an emphasis on the American forces in these theaters, each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation that will allow researchers to navigate through the vast amount of literature on the campaigns fought in these regions with ease. Focusing on all aspects surrounding the U.S. involvement in the Western European and Mediterranean theaters, including politics, religion, biography, strategy, intelligence, and operations, this bibliography will be a welcome addition to the collection of any academic or research library. Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies provide concise, annotated bibliographies to the major areas and events in American military history. With the inclusion of brief critical annotations after each entry, the student and researcher can easily assess the utility of each bibliographic source and evaluate the abundance of resources available with ease and efficiency. Comprehensive, concise, and current—Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies are an essential research tool for any historian.
A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Recent Air Age Education Textbooks
Author | : United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : MSU:31293020736041 |
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An Air Power Bibliography
Author | : Raymond Estep |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Aeronatics, Military |
ISBN | : UOM:39015021087500 |
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Flak
Author | : Edward B. Westermann |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2001-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780700614202 |
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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 material 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 above high-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, including its artillery, radar, searchlight, barrage balloon, decoy sites, and command components. Highlighting the convergence of technology, strategy, doctrine, politics, and economics, Flak also provides revealing insights into German strategic thought, Hitler's obsession with micromanaging the war, and the lives of the members of the flak units themselves, including the large number of women, factory workers, and even POWs who participated.