Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Presidio Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780891411581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2001-09-01
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780785813620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a useful guide to the aircraft manufactured in Britain during WWII, including such fighters as Spitfire, Hurricane, and Tempest; bombers such as Blenheim, Halifax, and Wellington; and a miscellany of other aircraft such as Sunderland, Anson, Tiger Moth, and Austers.
Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780753714614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 1996-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780765197054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 130 American warplanes profiled alphabetically, illustrated with full specifications and a brief history of each plane.
Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Book Sales
Published: 1994-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780785801474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed sourcebook covers 133 different types of American aircraft that were used during the second World War, and includes 170 color drawings, 177 photographs, eighty-seven diagrams, and thorough descriptions.
Author: Thomas Newdick
Publisher: Amber Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781782749714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781851529667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing in particular upon Germany, Japan and Italy, this guide shows the design and firepower of fighter bombers during World War II. It describes the aircraft, their pilots and their bombing missions in detail, and the construction of each country's air forces and fighting strategies.
Author: David Mondey
Publisher: Hamlyn
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780600350279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.