Download or read book Soldier P Night Fighters in France written by Shaun Clarke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1944, following the successful 'Anvil' landings of the previous month, the Allies were planning airborne landings in the Orléans Gap. In order to 'soften' the enemy before the landings, they decided to drop a squadron of men and jeeps by parachute in central France. These men were tasked with engaging in a series of daring hit-and-run night raids against enemy positions to distract attention from the landings taking place elsewhere. Only one group of men was deemed resourceful enough for such a high-risk mission: the legendary Special Air Service the SAS! Operation Kipling began when 46 jeeps and 107 well-armed SAS men from C Squadron were parachuted in with orders to establish a base and make contact with the Maquis Frenchmen living in makeshift camps in the forest, having fled from the Germans to conduct sabotage missions behind enemy lines. Even as the SAS men were setting up their secret base camp, the airborne landings were cancelled, and the SAS was ordered to conduct 'aggressive' patrolling. Over the next six weeks, C Squadron carried out a succession of perilous raids against the Germans, racing into occupied towns I jeeps, firing on the move, and racing out again. The SAS continually harassed the enemy and inflicted heavy casualties. By the Operation Kipling had ended, the very mention of the SAS was enough to make even the crack troops of the German Army tremble with feat and, in many cases, throw down their arms and surrender. Soldier P SAS: Night Fighters in France is the story of this daredevil World War Two operation little know, but utterly vital.

Download or read book Conquering The Night Army Air Forces Night Fighters At War Illustrated Edition written by Stephen L. McFarland and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 16 photos illustrations The author traces the AAF’s development of aerial night fighting, including technology, training, and tactical operations in the North African, European, Pacific, and Asian theaters of war. In this effort the United States never wanted for recruits in what was, from start to finish, an all-volunteer night fighting force. For combatants, a constant in warfare through the ages has been the sanctuary of night, a refuge from the terror of the day’s armed struggle. On the other hand, darkness has offered protection for operations made too dangerous by daylight. Combat has also extended into the twilight as day has seemed to provide too little time for the destruction demanded in modern mass warfare. In World War II the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) flew night-time missions to counter enemy activities under cover of darkness. Allied air forces had established air superiority over the battlefield and behind their own lines, and so Axis air forces had to exploit the night’s protection for their attacks on Allied installations. AAF night fighters sought to deny the enemy use of the night for these attacks. Also, by 1944 Allied daylight air superiority made Axis forces maneuver and resupply at night, by air, land, and sea. U.S. night fighters sought to disrupt these activities as an extension of daylight interdiction and harassment efforts. The AAF would seek to deny the enemy the night, while capitalizing on the night in support of daylight operations.

Download or read book What Soldiers Do written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

Download or read book Night Fighters written by Bill Gunston and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings during World War I, the role of the dedicated night fighter aircraft and its pilots in the 21st century has evolved greatly. This work reflects the massive changes in technology and in tactics. It also covers the problems of tracking aerial targets by radar.

Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Air Force Fifty written by Air Force Association and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Power for Patton s Army written by David N. Spires and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a case study of one air-ground team's experience with the theory and practice of tactical air power employed during the climactic World War 2 campaigns against the forces of Nazi Germany.

Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II Europe argument to V E Day January 1944 to May 1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conquering the Night written by Stephen L. McFarland and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Traces the Army Air Forces' development of aerial night fighting, including technology, training, and tactical operations in the North African, European, Pacific, and Asian theaters of war.

Download or read book The Last Offensive written by Charles B. MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Publications Combined The Battle Of The Bulge Key Writings Of The Ardennes Rhine And Bastogne written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 2063 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well over 2,000 total pages ... INTRODUCTION The Germans called it the “Operation Watch on the Rhine.” The French named it the “Battle of the Ardennes.” And the Western Allies termed it the “Ardennes Counteroffensive.” But because of the way the map of Western Europe looked at the height of the battle, it became known to history as the “Battle of the Bulge.” It was the winter of 1944–1945, months before the war in Europe would end. Despite the protestations of his generals, Adolf Hitler decided on one final attempt to turn World War II in favor of his German Third Reich. For this, he ordered resources diverted from other battle fronts—including his losing campaign against the Russians in the east. The Allies were caught of guard, as Hitler had hoped. Thousands of U.S. troops were surrounded at one point. In the end, the Allies committed enough troops that the tired, ill-equipped German army was overwhelmed. Indeed, the Battle of the Bulge was an important turning point in the war in the Allies’ favor, but it was not without its cost. The Battle of the Bulge is considered one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. CONTENTS 1. Introduction: The Battle of the Bulge Loomed Large 70 Winters Ago 2. BATTLE OF THE BULGE: THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN - A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources 3. The U.S. Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge 4. U.S. Army in Action Bastogne - The First Eight Days 5. The Campaigns of World War II Ardennes-Alsace (75th Anniversary) 6. The Last Offensive 7. THE ROLE OF AIR POWER IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE 8. Missed Opportunity: Reducing the Bulge 9. THE FAILURE OF GERMAN LOGISTICS DURING THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE OF 1944 10. BEGINNING OF THE END: THE LEADERSHIP OF SS OBERSTURMBANNFÜHRER JOCHEN PEIPER

Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Power For Patton s Army The XIX Tactical Air Command In The Second World War Illustrated Edition written by David N. Spires and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 3 charts, 28 maps and 88 photos. This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton and the XIX Tactical Air Command led by Brig. Gen. Otto P. Weyland proved to be the most effective allied air-ground team of World War II. The great success of Patton’s drive across France, ultimately crossing the Rhine, and then racing across southern Germany, owed a great deal to Weyland’s airmen of the XIX Tactical Air Command. This deft cooperation paved the way for allied victory in Western Europe and today remains a classic example of air-ground effectiveness. It forever highlighted the importance of air-ground commanders working closely together on the battlefield.

Download or read book The Long Road written by Oliver Clutton-Brock and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the airmen imprisoned in Nazi Germany’s largest World War II prisoner-of-war camp, the notorious Stalag Luft 7. This book is firstly a testament to those of many nationalities who found themselves imprisoned at Stalag Luft VII, Bankau (Luft 7 for short) in Upper Silesia, the Luftwaffe’s last prisoner of war camp. Having survived the trauma of action against, and capture by, the enemy, some as far back as 1940, they came from France, the Low Countries, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, the Balkans, Italy, Hungary, the Mediterranean and other seas, and from North Africa. Many of their experiences and adventures have never been documented before. It is also the complete history of their prisoner of war (POW) camp, Luft 7, told in full detail for the first time, a camp that existed for barely thirty-two weeks from its opening in early June 1944 to its closure in mid-January 1945.

Download or read book World War II the Encyclopedia of the War Years 1941 1945 written by Norman Polmar and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and comprehensive survey features over 2,400 entries. Subjects range from battles, soldiers, and military activities to politics, culture, and the Holocaust. Enlivened by 85 illustrations, its panoramic perspective encompasses WWII's enduring influences on the American way of life. "A unique and valuable look at the war."—General James Doolittle