Download or read book Thunderbolts of the U S 8th Army Air Force written by Tomasz Szlagor and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The P-47 Thunderbolt, also known as the "Jug", was the largest, heaviest, and most expensive fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single reciprocating engine. It was one of the main United States Army Air Forces fighters of World War II, and served with other Allied air forces. The P-47 was very effective in air combat but proved especially adept at ground attack. Richly illustrated with contemporary photographs and color profiles as well as maps, Thunderbolts Of The U.S. 8th Army Air Force describes the use of P-47 Thunderbolt fighters in many air operations over Europe between March 1944 and May 1945. About the Series Air Battles is a series of books focusing on World War II air battles of specific aircraft and units. Each volume contains information on the planes involved, lists of scores, pilot reports and portraits, color profile artwork and maps.
Download or read book Thunderbolts of the U S 8th Army Air Force written by Tomasz Szlagor and published by Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza. This book was released on 2010 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable reference tool containing lists of scores, pilot reports and portraits, color profile artworks and mapsBook contents: - Cross-Channel Ventures- Extended Range- Change of Strategy- The Big WeekThunderbolts Of The U.S. 8th Army Air Force describes the use of P-47 Thunderbolt fighters in many air operations over Europe between March 1943 and February 1944. The book contains 80 b-w photos and 10 color profiles of P-47's.About the SeriesAir Battles is a series of books focusing on World War II air battles of specific aircraft and units. Each volume contains information on the planes involved, lists of scores, pilot reports and portraits, color profile artwork and maps.
Download or read book The Mighty Eighth written by Roger A. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book P 47 Thunderbolt at War written by Cory Graff and published by . This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bloody Skies written by Nicholas A. Veronico and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II • Hundreds of photos of American aircraft damaged or shot down by the German Luftwaffe • Photos of damaged bomber and fighter planes, plus information on their crews and missions • Perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series • Ideal reference for military history fans, scholars, and modelers
Download or read book Fighter Bases of WW II US 8th Army Air Force Fighter Command USAAF 1943 45 written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the bases used during the Second World War by the American fighter units that flew in support of the 8th Air Forces heavy bomber forces.The long-range Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustangs escorted the Mighty Eighths Flying Fortresses and Liberators on their deep penetration raids into occupied Europe and Germany. Fighter cover was vital, since the USAAF flew daylight raids and in the early months the number of US aircraft lost to the defending Luftwuffe fighters was unacceptably high.The airfields included are Bodney, Bottisham, Boxted, Debden, Duxford, East Wretham, Fowlmere, Halesworth, Honington, Horsham St. Faith, Kings Cliffe, Leiston, Martlesham Heath, Raydon, Steeple Morden, Wattisham and Wormingford.This book looks at the history and personalities associated with each base, what remains today and explores the favorite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would have sought well-deserved entertainment and relaxation. Other museums and places that are relevant will also be described and general directions on how to get them included.
Download or read book US 8th Army Air Force Fighter Command USAAF 1943 45 written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the bases used during the Second World War by the American fighter units that flew in support of the 8th Air Force's heavy bomber forces. The long-range Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustangs escorted the Mighty Eighth's Flying Fortresses and Liberators on their deep penetration raids into occupied Europe and Germany. Fighter cover was vital, since the USAAF flew daylight raids and in the early months the number of US aircraft lost to the defending Luftwuffe fighters was unacceptably high. The airfields included are Bodney, Bottisham, Boxted, Debden, Duxford, East Wretham, Fowlmere, Halesworth, Honington, Horsham St. Faith, King's Cliffe, Leiston, Martlesham Heath, Raydon, Steeple Morden, Wattisham and Wormingford. This book looks at the history and personalities associated with each base, what remains today and explores the favorite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would have sought well-deserved entertainment and relaxation. Other museums and places that are relevant will also be described and general directions on how to get them included.
Download or read book The Mighty Eighth written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Journal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book P 47 Thunderbolt Units of the Twelfth Air Force written by Jonathan Bernstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The P-47 Thunderbolt, originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor, became the principal US fighter–bomber of World War II. First adapted to the ground attack role by units of the Twelfth Air Force in early 1944, the strength and durability of the P-47 airframe, along with its massive size, earned it the nickname 'Juggernaut', which was quickly shortened to 'Jug' throughout the MTO and ETO. By October 1943, with the creation of the Fifteenth Air Force, nearly half of the Twelfth's fighter groups would be retasked with strategic escort missions, leaving six groups to perform close air support and interdiction missions throughout the entire Mediterranean theatre. The groups inflicted incredible damage on the enemy's transport routes in particular, using rockets, bombs, napalm and machine-gun rounds to down bridges, blow up tunnels and strafe trains. Myriad first-hand accounts and period photography reveal the spectacular success enjoyed by the Thunderbolt in the MTO in the final year of the war.
Download or read book The Mighty Eighth written by Roger Anthony Freeman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US 8th Air Force was based in the UK from 1942 onwards, spread exclusively across East Anglia and operating from over 40 locations. The remains of some of these sites can still be found and a few are still airfields. The 8th flew intensive bomber and fighter sorties over Europe. Over 2000 aircraft, mostly B-17s, B-26s and P-47s, involving 150,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high-altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual Allied success.
Download or read book First of the Many written by John Reagan McCrary and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The First of the Many were the original officers, the combat crews and ground crews of the British-based 8th US Army Air Force - the first American invaders of Germany. This book tells the stories of the men and their deeds as they told them to 'Tex' McCrary, who shared ten missions with them as a photographer-gunner. Among the 'first of many' were fighter pilots who had been in the Philippines and the South Pacific; and the eagles, impatient young Americans who joined the RAF before Pearl Harbor, later transferring to the 8th. This is the story of epic military importance: the accomplishment of precision bombing of German targets by day. It is also a personal history of the men who took part, who recount in their own words their spectacular and legendary exploits."--jacket flap.
Download or read book In Death Filled Skies written by J. Thomas Callahan and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What did you do in the war, Grandpa?” asked my eleven-year-old great-granddaughter one evening. In the time it took her to ask that one innocent question, my thoughts slipped back more than seventy years to the summer and fall of 1943 and to the airfields of East Anglia and into the death-laden skies over Nazi-occupied Europe. The Eighth Air Force’s rule was simple: “Complete twenty-five bombing missions, and you can go home.” The problem was, the odds of completing those twenty-five missions was almost nil. In our B-17 Flying Fortress, my friends and I had to fight off Germany’s finest fighter pilots in their Messerschmitt’s and Focke-Wulf’s and fly through flak barrages so thick it looked, felt, and sounded like we were caught in the middle of a Texas tornado. We risked asphyxiation in the thin air at altitudes of twenty-five thousand feet or higher and endured temperatures so low that without the forty pounds of protective clothing covering us from head to toe, including electrically heated bunny suits, we would have frozen to death in a matter of minutes. That one simple question convinced me that it was time that my family learned what I had done and the price my friends and I had paid during our war against fascism and tyranny, a topic that I had never really spoken about before.
Download or read book Air Force written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heritage of Valor written by Budd J. Peaslee and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mighty Eighth written by Roger Anthony Freeman and published by Ihs Global Incorporated. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
