Download or read book Airborne Warfare 1918 1945 written by Barry Gregory and published by Bookthrift. This book was released on 1979 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wings of War written by Peter Harclerode and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2006 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first drop of a body of troops was carried out by the Italians in 1927. The first active engagement of an airborne force, against a bandit army in Central Asia - just fifteen Russian troops dropped from three aircraft - took place in 1929.Yet only eleven years later airborne forces were to change, radically and completely, the way that war on the ground was conducted. Once again a new technology had pushed forward man's ability to conduct war with ever increasing effectiveness. This book tells the complete story in detail never previously accomplished. It covers all aspects of airborne forces, including the aircraft, specialist equipment and systems developed for the safe delivery of airborne troops, vehicles, weapons and other equipment.
Download or read book Airborne to Battle written by Maurice Tugwell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyske hær; Balkan-halvøen; Middelhavsområdet; Vestfronten; Normandiet; Luftlandetropper; Red Devils; Faldskærmssoldater; 1950'erne; Korea; Suez-kanalen; Suez; Ægypten; 1960'erne; Vietnam; Fremtiden
Download or read book Airborne to Battle written by Maurice Tugwell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Airborne to Battle written by Maurice Tugwell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wings of War written by Peter Harclerode and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of airborne warfare and forces from 1918-1945
Download or read book Airlift and airborne operations in World War II written by Roger E. Bilstein and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 1998 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Details the history of the Air Transport Command.
Download or read book Airborne Warfare 1918 1941 written by Barry Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Airborne Warfare 1918 1971 written by Maurice Tugwell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Arnhem Myth and Reality written by Sebastian Ritchie and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Market Garden, often depicted as one of the most decisive military actions of the Allied campaign, offered an opportunity to conclude hostilities with Hitler's Germany before 1945 but its disastrous failure left the Allies facing another seven months of difficult and costly fighting. In this revised new paperback edition of Arnhem: Myth and Reality, Sebastian Ritchie demonstrates that the operation can only be properly understood if it is considered alongside earlier airborne ventures and reassesses the role of the Allied air forces and the widely held view that they bore a particular responsibility for Market Garden's failure. By placing Market Garden in its correct historical setting and by reassessing Allied air plans and their execution, this groundbreaking book provides a radically different view of the events of September 1944, challenging much of the current orthodoxy in the process.A groundbreaking book that provides a radically different view of the events of Operation Market Garden, September 1944, challenging much of the current orthodoxy in the process.The author places Market Garden in its correct historical setting and reassesses the Allied air plans and their execution. Of great interest to historians of World War II and anyone interested in Operation Market-Garden.Illustrated with 30 black & white photographs including one previously unpublished image for the paperback edition and 10 maps.Sebastian Ritchie is an official historian at the Air Historical Branch (RAF) of the Ministry of Defence and the author of numerous official narratives on RAF operations.A revised edition and new in paperback for 2019.
Download or read book Airborne Landing to Air Assault written by Nikolaos Theotokis and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about military parachuting, in particular about famous parachute operations like Crete and Arnhem in the Second World War and notable parachute units like the British Parachute Regiment and the US 101st Airborne Division, but no previous book has covered the entire history of the use of the parachute in warfare. That is why Nikolaos Theotokiss study is so valuable. He traces in vivid detail the development of parachuting over the last hundred years and describes how it became a standard tactic in twentieth-century conflicts. As well as depicting a series of historic parachute operations all over the world, he recognizes the role of airmen in the story, for they were the first to use the parachute in warfare when they jumped from crippled aeroplanes in combat conditions Adapting the parachute for military purposes occurred with extraordinary speed during the First World War and, by the time of the Second World War, it had become an established technique for special operations and offensive actions on a large scale. The range of parachute drops and parachute-led attacks was remarkable, and all the most dramatic examples from the world wars and lesser conflicts are recounted in this graphic and detailed study. The role played by parachute troops as elite infantry is also a vital part of the narrative, as is the way in which techniques of air assault have evolved since the 1970s.
Download or read book Out of the Sky written by S. M. Hickey and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1981-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War in the Air 1914 45 written by Williamson Murray and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as the First World War planes served as scouts, fighters, and bombers—and by World War II most of the advanced nations had large military air forces dedicated to bombardment. Starting with the less-than-perfect aircraft that flew over Europe in 1915, which caused countless deaths, see how technology developed between the wars; the early campaigns of WWII; air battles on the Eastern front; the defeat of the Luftwaffe; and sky combat in the Pacific.
Download or read book United States Army Aviators Equipment 1917 1945 written by C.G. Sweeting and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often narrower than many realized. The decisive actions of leaders, generals and war heroes have been well documented, but less well known are the technological developments that made victory possible and laid the groundwork for postwar progress. Based on more than ten years of research, this book describes how American airmen became the best-outfitted aviators of the war, tracing the development of virtually every piece of personal equipment used by United States air forces. Drawing on original sources including formerly classified documents, the author details the myriad types of respirator equipment, parachutes, body armor, pressure suits and other flying and survival gear that were instrumental in making U.S. pilots and air crews effective. Personal anecdotes bring to life the design and testing of combat flight equipment. More than 160 photographs are included, most published here for the first time.
Download or read book Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts 1915 1945 written by Jon Guttman and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An International History of the Development, Competition, and Deployment of High-Speed, Maneuverable, Fighter Aircraft During the Era of the World Wars Of all military aircraft, fighter planes hold a mystique all their own. Perhaps it is because fighters can afford the least compromise: when the goal is to seize and maintain control of the air, the confrontation is direct. During World War I, the concept of air superiority took hold and in the ensuing decades the development of fighter aircraft became an ongoing back-and-forth battle, with adversaries trying to gain an upper hand through innovations in aerodynamics, powerplants, and armament. Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts, 1915-1945: Innovation in Air Warfare Before the Jet Age by prominent aviation expert Jon Guttman explores the first combats for a variety of fighters of World War I, the conflicts of the so-called "interwar years," and World War II--a thirty-year period that saw the birth of the fighter concept and its maturity on the threshold of the Jet Age. Most of the aircraft described are fairly well known to aviation historians and a few names, such as Sopwith Camel, Fokker Triplane, Messerschmitt Me-109, Mitsubishi Zero, North American Mustang, and Supermarine Spitfire, are familiar even to the most nonaviation- minded persons. Not so well-known are the circumstances of their combat debuts, in which some, such as the Zero, made their mark almost from the outset, but in which others, like the British Bristol F.2A, showed rather less promise than they would ultimately realize. While a certain amount of space must be devoted to the technical development of these famous fighters, these studies of first combats serve as a reminder that it is the human factor, with all its special quirks, that inevitably came into play when these deadly flying machines first fired their guns. Profusely illustrated, Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts is an authoritative history of one of the most enduring subjects in military aviation.
Download or read book Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare written by Tami Davis Biddle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Anglo-American ideas about long range bombing were formed and implemented. It explains how air theorists came to believe that strategic bombing would be an effective coercive tool in warfare.
