Download or read book Iranian Air Force Pilots Stories During The War written by Shaunte Valley and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Iranian Air Force, currently known as the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, can be divided into two phases-before the Islamic Revolution, and after it. Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war against each other from September 1980 to August 1988. On the Iranian side, for the first few months of the war, the burden to defend the country was on the shoulders of the Iranian Air Force. The Iranian AF fought bravely against an invading army under excruciating circumstances. What the Iranian flyers did was very much like the actions that the British Royal Air Force took to defend Britain against the Nazi onslaught during the crucial weeks of the Battle of Britain. This short book contains real-life stories from the air war as told by Iran's military aviators. The stories told herein are recalled, collected, and translated for the first time in English for military history enthusiasts around the globe...

Download or read book The Last Escape written by Major Hassan Granmayeh and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Hassan Granmayeh was a Fighter Pilot in the Iranian Air Force, piloted the F-5 and F-4 aircrafts during his service times. Had two major accidents with F-5 aircraft, miraculously survived both accidents. Served The Shah’s regime for fifteen years and six months followed by ten months in the revolution of 1979. For his safety reason escaped the Iran with his family, came to the United States on December 1982. Due to his mother’s illness in Iran, decided to go back to Iran, to visit his mother on her death-bed. The government of Iran confiscated his passport banned him to exit the country, until he made a risky decision to escape the Iran for the last time.

Download or read book Story Of The Iranian Air Force Pilots written by Ali Zank and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Iranian Air Force, currently known as the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, can be divided into two phases-before the Islamic Revolution, and after it. Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war against each other from September 1980 to August 1988. On the Iranian side, for the first few months of the war, the burden to defend the country was on the shoulders of the Iranian Air Force. The Iranian AF fought bravely against an invading army under excruciating circumstances. What the Iranian flyers did was very much like the actions that the British Royal Air Force took to defend Britain against the Nazi onslaught during the crucial weeks of the Battle of Britain. This short book contains real-life stories from the air war as told by Iran's military aviators. The stories told herein are recalled, collected, and translated for the first time in English for military history enthusiasts around the globe...

Download or read book The Iranian Air Force Pilots written by Haley Sommerfeldt and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent stories from a little-known about war. Gives hints at the capabilities of the F-14 and the benefits of American training. This short book contains real life stories from the air war as told by Iran's military aviators. The stories told herein are recalled, collected and translated for the first time in English for the military history enthusiasts around the globe..

Download or read book Iranian F 4 Phantom II Units in Combat written by Farzad Bishop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different versions of the jet have provided the backbone of the frontline strength of the Iranian air force since the 1970s, and whole generations of Iranian pilots and ground personnel have been trained to fly and maintain them. Indeed, the type bore the brunt of active combat operations during the long war with Iraq. Iranian F-4 Phantom IIs were also some of best equipped examples ever exported by the USA. Some Iranian Phantom II pilots gathered immense experience on the type, flying it in combat for more than ten years. This book removes the veil of secrecy surrounding Iranian Phantom II operations since the war with Iraq.

Download or read book The Memoir Of Iranian Air Force Pilots written by Lavonia Bizzaro and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent stories from a little-known about war. Gives hints at the capabilities of the F-14 and the benefits of American training. This short book contains real life stories from the air war as told by Iran's military aviators. The stories told herein are recalled, collected and translated for the first time in English for the military history enthusiasts around the globe..

Download or read book Flight of the Patriot written by Yadollah Sharifirad and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2010-04-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a gripping, page-turning memoir of a US-trained Iranian fighter pilot who flew in the Shah of Iran’s and the Ayatollah Khomeini’s air force. Sharifirad was shot down in the Iraqi-Iranian war in the early 1990s. Saved by a group of local Kurds, he returned to Iran where he became a national hero. A movie, called Eagles, based on his rescue, was made in Iran in 1984. Sharifirad’s story was also published in Iran in a book called Crash on the Fortieth Mission. Shortly after his return to Iran, the Ayatollah sent him to Pakistan as military attaché. When he returned toTeheran, he was accused of being a CIA spy and was imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured. Sharifirad served a prison term and upon his release, despite constant surveillance, managed to smuggle his family out of the country. Eventually, he too managed a harrowing escape from Iran via Turkey to Canada, where he now lives with his family in Vancouver. The book also provides an absorbing historical and cultural backdrop to Iran.

Download or read book Iranian F 14 Tomcat Units in Combat written by Tom Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq war, they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses where tiny; only one F-14 was lost in aerial combat (to a MiG-21), one to a control problem and one downed by a ground-to-air missile. This book looks at the F-14's Iranian combat history and includes first hand accounts from the pilots themselves. It will consider key engagements and the central figures involved, illustrating the realities, successes and failures of the Iranian air campaign.

Download or read book Immortals of the Sky written by Colonel F Izadseta and published by Palmetto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating memoir chronicles the experiences of Colonel F. Izadseta, a senior Iranian Air Force commander who spent many years serving in the pre-revolutionary Imperial Iranian Air Force, witnessing its buildup during the 1960s and 1970s, and its near destruction after the 1979 revolution. He tells of navigating the rocky political climate during the 1980s' Iran-Iraq war, while helping his country stand up to the Iraqi invasion and turn what could have been a week-long defeat into a stalemate that ultimately took eight years-the longest conventional war of the 20th century. His memoir is a very rare, open and candid tell-all from a high-ranking Iranian officer involved in the many fateful decisions made in an adverse environment where the government did not trust (and was actively sabotaging) its own military, despite the country being under attack. Colonel Izadseta takes the reader right into command headquarters where chaos was unfolding and commanders were facing incredible difficulties-international disapproval, domestic oppression, and even imprisonment by their own government. Colonel Izadseta was among a handful of highly-trained and dedicated officers who found themselves in an impossible and isolated situation, but were able to rise above the politics and insanity of the day to find a way to defend and serve their country-surprising everyone, including themselves. The Iranian government has since gone through every effort to suppress their story and their voices. This is the first time a senior Iranian Air Force commander is heard on the record telling the whole story. Readers interested in the modern history of the Middle East, plus those who have been involved in wars in the region and are curious about the context and background of how that situation came to be, as well as military aviation enthusiasts, and readers from Iran and neighboring countries who were deeply affected by these events but never heard the true story, are all sure to find this a must-read book.

Download or read book Wings over Persia written by Lou Martin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.

Download or read book Desert Warriors written by Babak Taghvaee and published by Helion. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the leadership of a patriotic ruler, who wasn't only cautious about the security of his state but was acting to stabilize worldwide peace by keeping the Middle East secure from the danger of Communism, the third most powerful Army Aviation in the world was born and flourished. Based on the recently declassified official records of the Iranian

Download or read book Iranian F 14 Tomcat Units in Combat written by Tom Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq war, they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses where tiny; only one F-14 was lost in aerial combat (to a MiG-21), one to a control problem and one downed by a ground-to-air missile. This book looks at the F-14's Iranian combat history and includes first hand accounts from the pilots themselves. It will consider key engagements and the central figures involved, illustrating the realities, successes and failures of the Iranian air campaign.

Download or read book Vipers in the Storm Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot written by Keith Rosenkranz and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of the Desert Storm aerial warfare, told by one of its heroes. The book inlcudes riveting you-are-there detail, complete with photos.

Download or read book IRIAF 2010 written by Tom Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book describes the current organization and equipment of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF). Drawing on a wide range of digital photographs, IRIAF 2010 presents all types of combat, transport and training aircraft, as well as helicopters, currently operated by the IRIAF, many of which are supported by captions detailing individual aircraft histories. Following a summary of the air force's development since its early days in the 1920s, the centerpiece of this volume are 12 chapters that cover all major IRIAF bases and flying units stationed there, as well as a summary of the order of battle, in which all units are also represented in the form of patches worn by their pilots. Covering an often under-reported and misinterpreted topic, and one that is directly influential in the current standoff between Iran, the US and Israel, this book is a unique reference source for scholar and enthusiast alike.

Download or read book Iran Iraq War in the Air 1980 1988 written by Tom Cooper and published by Schiffer Military. This book was released on 2002 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the role of the air power in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. The authors made full use of extensive research, eyewitness accounts, interviews with dozens of people directly involved, as well as recently declassified documents from around the world which are published here for the first time. ... describes and analyzes both the development of the Iranian and the Iraqi air forces, their involvement in combat operations, while simultaneously discussing their organization and capabilities, and detailing their equipment to detail."--Edited from publisher's web site.

Download or read book A Concise History of the U S Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.

Download or read book Chaos Above the Sand A Special Projects Unit Adventure written by Bruce Thomas and published by Fulton Books. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iran 2010. The Iranian High Council has decided that today is the day that their fighter pilots will attack. With a large group of fighter aircraft poised to cross the border into Iraq, the only thing standing in the Iranians way is Wild Bill Eddy's four F-15C aircraft. With lightning speed, the battle rages in the sky above Iraq. Iran's desire to control the Middle East sets this fast-paced, multilayered story in motion. Germany, May 1944. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has sent his most trusted representatives to steal vast treasures from Hitler's hidden storage location. Once these were obtained, they intend to use the horde to fund their escape from the war that has devastated Germany and made them lose faith with the Führer. A mix of attacks, setbacks, and terrible timing cause the treasures to be lost when the Allies attacked Normandy on June 6, 1944. From the beginning, the Special Projects Unit is thrown into this thriller with traitors, spies, and patriotic soldiers. The SPU director, William "Wild Bill" Eddy, along with his best friend, Assistant Director Mark "Vector" Jones, race to solve the clues to who is supplying top secret information to the Iranians. With villains and traitors on every page, the SPU must decipher the clues and save the USA from a fast-approaching military defeat. Clues to the lost World War II treasure become mixed into the story of the building and hiding of the SPU. This yarn is the tale of the development and birth of the SPU. As Air Force Academy graduates, Wild Bill and Vector have a bond that transcends work. But will they be able to solve all of the clues to stop the Iranians from taking over the Middle East? Chaos Above the Sand is a prequel to Bruce Thomas's first book, The Hope of the South. Bruce Thomas is a retired US Air Force fighter pilot and a recently retired Captain of Southwest Airlines. He is a graduate of Farmington High School, Missouri, and the US Air Force Academy. The father of five children and nine grandchildren, he lives in Overland Park, Kansas, with his wife, Vivian, and their two pugs. Chaos Above the Sand is the second book in the Special Projects Unit series. 2