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Airfields of the Eighth Then and Now
Author: Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher: After the Battle
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780900913099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is a nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the World War II. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and mouldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavours of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men.
The Mighty Eighth
Author: Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781854095312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Mighty Eighth
Author: Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780304357086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A must-have classic. Mostly taken by members of “Mighty” Eighth Air Force, this wonderful selection portrays the American aircraft and their crews deployed to Britain in 1942. The daring and danger of those days comes across in a uniquely personal perspective, in photos of bases, aircraft in action and on the ground, nose art, and airfields and countryside from high above. Nearly 600 photos, arranged alphabetically by home base. “A brilliant gallery of memories.”—Hobby Merchandiser.
The Mighty Eighth
Author: Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1970-06
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780385011686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of the American fighter units which waged successful compaigns against the Luftwaffe in World War II
Airfields Of 8th
Author: Roger Freeman
Publisher: After the Battle
Published: 1978-02-28
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1399076868
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and moldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavors of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men. For such they are.
B-17 Groups of the Eighth Air Force
Author: Martin W. Bowman
Publisher: Red Kite / Air Research
Published: 2004-02
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 0954620100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →En fotografisk fortælling med tekst om Eigth Air Force Boeing B-17 i dens operative miljø. Tegninger der viser bemaling af flyet er i farver.
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 2)
Author: Martin Bowman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-01-20
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1472800524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
The Mighty Eighth in WWII: A Memoir
Author: J. Kemp McLaughlin USAFR (Ret.)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780813131771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Down to Earth' Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force
Author: William N Hess
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-12-20
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1782008535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book. His official endorsement reveals just how important a document Down to Earth was to the teaching of tyro fighter pilots heading for action in the ETO. More leading aces were lost to flak whilst ground strafing than to German fighters. In this book William Hess has included biographies of all the pilots that originally contributed to this work back in 1943-44.
