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Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A look at the transformation of aerial combat during World War I and the pilots of every country who were celebrated for shooting down enemy aircraft. By the time of the outbreak of the First World War, aviation was only eleven years old. The daddy of battlefield warfare until that point in time had been the cavalry, a position it maintained even as war was declared on the Western Front. Aircraft were not initially seen as an offensive weapon and...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of RAF service in the postwar era and the golden age of British military aviation, including photos. How often have you glanced skyward at the sound of a passing aircraft and wondered what it would be like to fly one of those gleaming metal machines? Or admired the skill and daring of the fighter pilot swooping down upon his enemy in the awe-inspiring, unrivaled elegance of a Spitfire? Ron Lloyd has had the experience of flying the majestic...
Author
Publisher
Grub Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This biography of a tenacious fighter pilot is a powerful story about a fascinating man who seemed to know no fear ( Aerodrome ). As one of the most successful German fighter pilots of World War I, Rudolf Berthold was victorious in forty-four aerial combats. He was also shot down or forced to land after six fights and survived crash landings in every case. Early in WWI, when only fighter pilots were awarded the Kingdom of Prussia's (and de facto,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting." -- Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights...
Author
Publisher
Grub Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"An extensive guide to Japan's Naval Air Force Fighter Units and their ace pilots during conflicts in the 1930s and "˜40s, now in English. The book begins by looking at the land- and aircraft carrier-based navy fighter units and their operations from 1932 to 1945, as well as their history and achievements. This is followed with biographical details for all pilots who claimed eight or more aerial victories. The thorough appendix provides detailed...
Author
Series
Hunters of the Reich volume 1
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
At the outbreak of war in September 1939 no one in the German High Command had envisaged a long and protracted campaign, for which reason the possibility of having to fight at night had not seriously been considered. However, the shortcomings in the Luftwaffe's night-time defences became all too apparent when Bomber Command, having sustained appalling losses during the day, switched to night attacks. It was only as the bombing of the German homeland...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a proud Adolf Hitler revealed his new Luftwaffe to the world in March 1935, it was the largest, most modern military air arm the world had seen. Equipped with the latest monoplane fighter and bomber aircraft manned by well-trained and motivated crews, it soon became evident that the Luftwaffe also possessed a high degree of technical superiority over Germany’s future enemies. Yet within just nine years the once-mightiest air force in the world...
8) Air Bridge
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A daredevil pilot joins the Berlin Airlift to fight for democracy in this Cold War adventure from "a whale of a writer" ( The New York Times ). When his plane goes down over Germany, Neil Fraser vows not to die in a POW camp. He tunnels out beneath the barbed wire, commandeers a Messerschmitt fighter plane, and flies it home to England. He's been stealing planes ever since. After the war, Fraser falls in with an international ring of thieves, lifting...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Barney Barnfather flew Spitfires from November 1941 until the end of the war in Europe. He was in the thick of the fighting and saw action over France, Malta, North Africa, in the invasions of Sicily and Italy, and finally over Austria in 1945. This is his story.
10) Tail Gunner
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1943, this is the gripping story of one man's involvement in RAF Bomber Command's fledgling offensive between August 1940 and December 1941. Dick Rivaz was tail gunner to Leonard Cheshire, one of the most famous RAF pilots of the Second World War, flying in Whiteleys with 102 Squadron and latterly in Halifaxes with 35 Squadron. Unique among wartime memoirs, Tail Gunner was written within months of the events described, with all...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Southern England. Late summer 1940. The UK is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the "thin blue line" of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots. This newly illustrated anniversary edition of Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot reveals what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940?...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The stirring biography of the RAF flying ace, one of the great pilots of the Battle of Britain, and the famous squadron that catapulted him into history. Acting Pilot Officer John Freeborn reported to RAF Hornchurch on 29 October, 1938. John was posted from Flying Training School to join the already acclaimed 74 "Tiger" Squadron at eighteen years of age. At that time the Squadron was equipped with the Gloster Gauntlet. One of the first people John...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grandpa is Jack s favorite person in the world. It doesn t matter that he wears his slippers to the supermarket, serves Spam a la Custard for dinner, and often doesn't remember Jack's name. But then Grandpa starts to believe he s back in World War II, when he was a Spitfire fighter pilot, and he's sent to live in an old folk's home run by the sinister Matron Swine. Now it s up to Jack to help Grandpa plot a daring escape!"--
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This gripping chronicle of an aerial rescue during the Vietnam War offers a vivid example of the heroism of US Air Force pararescue jumpers. In June of 1972, Capt. Lynn Aikman was returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom was shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton ejected from their aircraft, but Hanton landed near a village and was quickly captured. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman landed some distance...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command at the Air Ministry. From idyllic pre-war training, he would fly bombers against rebels over Iraq, combat Fw190s over England in the newly introduced and equally dangerous Typhoon; he would undertake hazardous low-level anti-shipping strikes in the English Channel, as well as train-busting sorties over occupied territory at night...
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the heartland, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American life following World War II, the Korean War, America's development of atomic weapons in the Cold War age, the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Mariel boatlift. Captain Allen Brady not only witnessed all of these events but...
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