Download or read book Fighter Over Finland written by Eino Astere Luukkanen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finland's third-ranking aerial ace recounts battle experiences during the Russo-Finnish "Winter War" of 1940 and "Continuation War", 1941-44.
Download or read book Fighter Over Finland written by Eino Astere Luukkanen and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Ordinary Guy in Extraordinary Times written by Robert H. McCampbell and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Look Mom I Can Fly written by Robert Vrilakas and published by Amethyst Moon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1920s the sound of airplane motors would cause the entire inhabitants of author Robert "Smoky" Vrilakas' small Northern California village to dash outside to look up at the sky. Overhead would be a Ford Trimotor passenger plane droning off toward some unknown destination, a sight almost as awesome then as watching a manned satellite pass over in space today. The author, then a young boy, thought those who flew airplanes had to be super humans, far beyond anything he could ever even dream of doing. Later, in the midst of the Great Depresssion, Smoky Vrilakas' life took a sudden, sweeping turn. Six months prior to the December Pearl Harbor attack and at only 22 years old, Smoky was drafted into the army in preparation for an expected major war. Look, Mom-I Can Fly! takes you through the author's Army infantry training and his Army Air Corp flight training. You will share Smoky's experience in learning to fly the Army's top fighter airplane of the time: the P-38 "Lightning." In mid-1943 you will travel with him and 65 other P-38 volunteer classmates to North Africa and Italy. There, as a member of the famed "Hat in the Ring" squadron, you will accompany him on 51 combat missions against the German Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. All of the combat missions carried considerable risk. Some came very close to being Smoky's last. Meet some of Smoky's fellow P-38 pilots and learn about the everyday life of a fighter pilot of that era. This story confirms that determination and the will to meet a goal are the primary ingredients for success in any endeavor.
Download or read book An Ace and His Angel written by Herbert Brooks Hatch and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was written by Herbert Brooks Hatch, Jr., one of America's living Fighter Pilot Aces from World War II. Hatch flew a P-38 with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, out of Salsola, Italy. Except for a brief deployment to Corsice to cover the invasion of Southern France, he flew his 59 missions out of Foggia #3. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters. In his first book, An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot, Hatch writes of the heroes and hardships endured by veterans of the Army Air Force.
Download or read book I Flew for the F hrer written by Heinz Knoke and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs and is a fascinating counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots. Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of war, and eventually became commanding officer of a fighter wing. An outstandingly brave and skillful fighter, he logged over two thousand flights and shot down fifty-two enemy aircraft. He had flown over four hundred operational missions before being wounded in an astonishing 'last stand' towards the end of the war. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his achievements. In a text that reveals his intense patriotism and discipline, he describes being brought up in the strict Prussian tradition, the rise of the Nazi regime and his own wartime career set against a fascinating study of everyday life in the Luftwaffe. He also reveals the high morale of the force until its disintegration. His memoirs are both a valuable contribution to aviation literature and a moving human story.
Download or read book The Struggle written by Franciszek Kornicki and published by MMP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Poland in 1916, the author served with the Polish Air Force 162 Fighter Squadron during the Nazi invasion of Poland, escaped to France and then to Britain, and subsequently flew with the RAF during the rest of the war.
Download or read book Thunderbolt Out of the Blue written by Robert J. Steele and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a Kansas City Thunderbolt fighter pilot.
Download or read book Sabres Hogs and Thuds written by Robert V. Thompson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From F 4 Phantom to A 10 Warthog written by Steven K Ladd and published by Air World. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about them, past and present. Understandably, most of these revolve around the skill, cunning and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve - until now. You do not have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd's fascinating personal tale, woven around his 28-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through the narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia; Europe to the Middle East; linking the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes provided are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. Phantom to Warthog is a terrific read: the legacy of a fighter pilot.
Download or read book I Flew for the F hrer the Story of a German Fighter Pilot written by Heinz Knoke and published by New York : Berkley. This book was released on 1959 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brave and Funny Memories of WWII written by Lyndon Shubert and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know how a young fighter pilot felt in his head and his heart as he was about to fly the enemy skies of WWII, this book is for you. Always afraid he was about to die, he climbed into the cockpit anyway ... and lived to tell you about it. How would you feel if you were a new guy in the sky ... attacked by four Messerschmitts? Let me tell you, no matter how much you prepare, no matter how much you read, how much you train, no matter how much you think of yourself as a 'Hot Shot Pilot, ' you are never ready for life and death combat! How did it feel to say a 'last goodbye' to your bride believing you would never see her again, as you left to fight WWII? Author's Facebook page at: facebook.com/P38Flyer/ As reviewed by A. L. Hanks, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Ret) who said it perfectly: In "Brave and Funny Memories of WWII" Lyndon Shubert, to our great benefit, tells us his story, an engaging tale of his WWII experience as a fighter pilot in WWII. A member of the "greatest generation" he recounts his days (and nights) flying P-38 fighters in the wartime skies of Europe. The tale is told in a relaxed, conversational style, honest and personal. The reader will appreciate the authenticity and the easy humor. He tells us a story that is at once delightfully humorous and deadly serious. He shares that unfettered sense of flying a powerful aircraft free in the vast expanse of the sky. The special sense that pilots have when they "can reach out and touch the face of God." Shubert relates the feelings of men in combat, that gripping apprehension in your gut when you know you're going to die, your senses at full maximum intensity, and then that striking after mission fear when you look back and realize that you cheated death once again. Shubert was indeed a special fellow. We are indebted to him for his service and his book. He captures a special piece of the American character and our history that is essential to pass on to our children and grandchildren. Lt Shubert was exceptional, a USAF officer and a fighter pilot who fought the war and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. The author reminds us once again why fighter pilots are special. Why they are ubiquitously viewed as swaggering "raconteurs," with big egos and big watches who can sometimes be insufferable. But his tale also captures the reality of one-on-one aerial combat, loser goes home.... to God.
Download or read book Shot Down in Flames written by Geoffrey Page and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Geoffrey Page who, during the Battle of Britain, was shot down in the English Channel and suffered severe burns.
Download or read book On A Wing and A Prayer written by Fmj Pacheco and published by . This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales of our fathers (and mothers, sometimes) in war may be the most important legacy ever left us. These "war stories" told by our parents on warm summer evenings haunt many of us to this day. They are warnings, a cry in the dark to future generations they may never know. The following pages are the autobiographical accounts of my parents in World War II. My father was a fighter pilot and my mother an evac nurse in the ETO 1944-45. These are the very human accounts of that most inhuman experience.
Download or read book TALES OF WAR PILOT written by KIRKLAND RICHARD C and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkland was a fighter pilot in the Pacific during WWII, flew atomic bomb test flights, and flew helicopter rescue missions in Korea.
Download or read book Flying Start written by Hugh Dundas and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
