Download or read book Jane s Fighting Aircraft of World War I written by and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reproduction of Jane's All the World Aircraft, wartime editions.
Download or read book Fighting Aircraft of World Wars One and Two written by John H. Batchelor and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting Aircraft of World Wars One and Two written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aircraft of World War I 1914 18 written by Jack Herris and published by Essential Identification Guide. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, this reissue from the Essential Identification Guide series is a comprehensive study of the aircraft that fought in the Great War of 1914-18. Packed with more than 200 color profiles of every major type of combat aircraft from the era, Aircraft of World War I 1914-18 is an essential reference. Arranged chronologically by theater of war and campaign, this well-illustrated book offers a complete organizational breakdown of World War I aircraft units on all fronts. Each campaign contains a compact history of the role and impact of aircraft on the conflict, as well as orders of battle, lists of commanders, and campaign aces such as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Albert Ball. Every type of aircraft is featured, including the numerous variations and types of well-known models--such as the Fokker Dr.I, the Sopwith Camel, and the SPAD SVII--through to lesser-known aircraft, such as the Rumpler C.1 and the Amstrong Whitworth FK8. The profiles are accompanied by exhaustive specifications, as well as details of individual and unit markings. It's the perfect guide for modelers, military historians, and aircraft enthusiasts.
Download or read book The Second World Wars written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory. An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.
Download or read book The Illustrated Directory of Fighting Aircraft of World War II written by Bill Gunston and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specs for more than 160 aircraft, with illustrations and period photos to detail paint schemes. Ideal for scale and R/C modelers.
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Aircraft of World War II written by Frederick Thomas Jane and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents photographs, line drawings and data tables for all of the many aircraft types that took part in World War II.
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying to the Limit written by Peter Caygill and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the design and testing of British fighter planes during World War II.
Download or read book Fighter Planes of World War II written by Nancy Robinson Masters and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces various kinds of fighter planes used by the Army Air Force and by the Navy and Marines during World War Two, their missions, and the weapons employed. Also includes information on the German and Japense fighters used in World War 2.
Download or read book The Dogfights of the World Wars written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The first aircraft to appear in the skies over the battlefields of World War I showed few signs of the dominant future of airplanes in warfare. Small, fragile, and slow, they provided no hint of the sleek jet fighters that would one day slash across the skies of Earth faster than sound to unleash the lethal blast and fire of sophisticated missiles, or the bombers able to level an entire city with one nuclear bomb. That said, they did not represent a complete novelty in warfare either, at least not during the early months of World War I. While airplanes had never before appeared above the field of war, other aerial vehicles had already been in use for decades, and balloons had carried soldiers above the landscape for centuries to provide a high observation point superior to most geological features. The French used a balloon for this purpose at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, and by the American Civil War, military hydrogen balloons saw frequent use, filled from wagons generating hydrogen from iron filings and sulfuric acid. The balloonist Thaddeus Lowe persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to use the airships for observation, communicating troop movements to the ground with a telegraph wire. At first, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during the war. However, when pilots' mounting of armaments on airplanes proved a successful means of defeating other aircraft and even attacking men on the ground, a much more active and systematic development of warplanes began across the continent. Each advance prompted a countermeasure, as the two sides strove for primacy in a deadly, unforgiving environment which rewarded real advances in equipment and tactics with survival and punished poor ideas with death. Before long, relatively powerful, heavily armed aircraft buzzed through the skies over battle-stained Europe, tearing each other apart with furious gusts of machine gun fire and sending many of the vaunted dirigibles plunging, burning, to the ground. The new era of fighting aircraft arrived in dramatic fashion, raising successful pilots to celebrity or heroic status, and laying the groundwork for the tremendous potential of airpower to achieve its next logical expansion in World War II and beyond. By the time World War II arrived, the fighter airplane appeared as a much different beast than the purpose-built aircraft-hunting machines of 1917 and 1918. Though propellers still provided motive force, greatly increased engine power allowed these aircraft to slice through the sky at speeds of 200 mph, 300 mph, or even in excess of 400 mph when flying flat-out. Service ceilings jumped to 25,000 feet, 30,000 feet, or higher, altitudes unthinkable to World War I's aviators. Engineering and research and development began working scientifically to shave time off the climb rate and address a host of other problems and possibilities. At the start of the war, as the German Luftwaffe first flew against Poland and then the Royal Air Force, aircraft were already swift, metal-skinned hunter-killers in the sky, with enclosed cockpits, armor, and powerful loadouts of machine guns, 20mm cannons, and, soon, rockets. But an even bigger transformation awaited - the birth of the jet age, a future glimpsed briefly in the spectacular but doomed appearance of the Messerschmitt Me 262 near the war's end. The Dogfights of the World Wars: The Evolution and History of the Fight in the Skies during World War I and World War II looks at how technology and tactics evolved during the wars. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about dogfights like never before.
Download or read book Combat Squadrons of the Air Force World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of squadron histories has been prepared by the USAF Historical Division to complement the Division's book, Air Force Combat Units of World War II. The 1,226 units covered by this volume are the combat (tactical) squadrons that were active between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945. Each squadron is traced from its beginning through 5 March 1963, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the 1st Aero (later Bombardment) Squadron, the first Army unit to be equipped with aircraft for tactical operations. For each squadron there is a statement of the official lineage and data on the unit's assignments, stations, aircraft and missiles, operations, service streamers, campaign participation, decorations, and emblem.
Download or read book Fighter Aircraft of World Wars I and II written by Francis Crosby and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2013-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter planes have played a crucial role in history: they have won wars, prevented wars, and defended nations from aggressors. This book is a fully illustrated guide to over 100 of these history-making machines. It covers the complete history of fighter aircraft, then offers a substantial A-Z guide brimming with information and often rare photographs of classic fighter aircraft, including the Fokker Triplane, Bristol Fighter, Spitfire and P-51 Mustang. Detailed specification boxes are featured for every aircraft listed. This fully illustrated book features 300 images, and provides enthusiasts and historians with key information about the fighters of the two World Wars.
Download or read book Aircraft of WWI written by Jack Herris and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, 'The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Aircraft of WWI' is a comprehensive study of the aircraft that fought in the Great War of 1914–18. Arranged chronologically by theater of war and campaign, this book offers a complete organizational breakdown of the units on all the fronts, including the Eastern and Italian Fronts. Each campaign includes a compact history of the role and impact of aircraft on the course of the conflict, as well as orders of battle, lists of commanders and campaign aces such as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Albert Ball and many more.
Download or read book Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two written by Don Berliner and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world. Each DPS contains a colour photo of an example of the aircraft as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks (wartime shots in mono) and a textual resume of the type with statistics.The aircraft can be viewed in the USA, UK, France, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Canada, Australia, Finland, Holland, Poland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and Spain
Download or read book Fighting Ships of World Wars One and Two written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vital Guide to Fighting Aircraft of World War II written by Karen Leverington and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains concise and highly detailed reference work to the most important fighting aircraft of World War II. It features aircraft from all the major combatants, including England, America, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Russia.
