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Flak Dodger
Author | : Roland O. Byers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : WISC:89077183614 |
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I Will Tell No War Stories
Author | : Howard Mansfield |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2024-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493081097 |
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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.”
A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940 1945
Author | : Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781911621782 |
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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
A Diary of Hope
Author | : Andrew Gabriel |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2008-11-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780557050444 |
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My grandfather, Frank Carollo, was a prisoner of war in the infamous POW camp Stalag 17 B during World War II. During these dark days, he managed to keep a diary of his experiences, depicting everyday life within, through beautiful short stories, poetry, and drawings. Now years later, I've taken his accounts, adding background details from friends and family, to create a memoir of hope, love, and survival; a story of one man's life before, during, and after being confined within one of the most notorious of Nazi camps. 20% of the profits from each book sold will be donated to the national Alzheimer's Association, in memory of Frank Carollo.
99th Bomb Group
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : B-17 bomber |
ISBN | : 9781563112676 |
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The 99th Bomb Group contained the 346th, 347th, 348th, and the 416th squadrons.
B 17 Groups of the Eighth Air Force
Author | : Martin W. Bowman |
Publsiher | : Red Kite / Air Research |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2004-02 |
Genre | : B-17 bomber |
ISBN | : 9780954620103 |
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En fotografisk fortælling med tekst om Eigth Air Force Boeing B-17 i dens operative miljø. Tegninger der viser bemaling af flyet er i farver.
Big Week
Author | : Bill Yenne |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781101618967 |
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In just six days, the United States Strategic Air Forces changed the course of military offense in World War II. During those six days, they launched the largest bombing campaign of the war, dropping roughly ten thousand tons of bombs in a rain of destruction that would take the skies back from the Nazis . . . The Allies knew that if they were to invade Hitler’s Fortress Europe, they would have to wrest air superiority from the mighty Luftwaffe. The plan of the Unites States Strategic Air Forces was extremely risky. During the week of February 20, 1944—and joined by the RAF Bomber Command—the USAAF Eighth and Fifteenth Air Force bombers took on this vital mission. They ran the gauntlet of the most heavily defended air space in the world to deal a death blow to Germany’s aircraft industry and made them pay with the planes already in the air. In the coming months, this Big Week would prove a deciding factor in the war. Both sides were dealt losses, but whereas the Allies could recover, damage to the Luftwaffe was irreparable. Thus, Big Week became one of the most important episodes of World War II and, coincidentally, one of the most overlooked—until now.
Ready Or Not
Author | : J. Francis Angier |
Publsiher | : Success Networks |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0970417519 |
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In "Ready or Not," readers will come to know and appreciate World War II B-17 pilot and former POW Angier, one of the many heroes of what author and journalist Tom Brokaw has called "the greatest generation."