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Author: Martin W. Bowman
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1844153894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →En samling beretninger om allierede bombeflybesætningers oplevelser under natbombeoffensiven mod Tyskland under 2. verdenskrig.
Author: Mel Rolfe
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2008-07-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1909166324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vivid World War II stories of the brave men of Bomber Command and their adventures from the bestselling author of To Hell and Back and Hell on Earth. Mel Rolfe brings the reader real-life stories of bomber command at war with his new book Flying into Hell. A journalist by profession, Rolfe has conducted his interviews and prepared the stories in such a way as to take the reader into the events as they happened. To read these accounts is to step back into the war itself . . . Returning to a French village three years after baling out from a blazing bomber, a former rear gunner was shown the site of his supposed grave. He had been so badly burned a French doctor had left him alone in a graveyard to die. He met again the brave people who had looked after him until he was well enough to join a group walking to freedom across the Pyrenees. Other stories include a bomber that came down so low over the sea to escape ack-ack guns that it struck the water and managed to claw its way back up into the sky; the Lancaster pilot who wore Hermann Goering’s Iron Cross around his neck as a lucky charm; a gunner incarcerated in Buchenwald; and a flight engineer who lost his fingers to frostbite after the bomber’s rear door was blown open. Many of these stories demonstrate the amazing resilience of the human spirit, and the unwavering courage of the young men who helped bomb the enemy into submission. They are illustrated with photographs, most of which have not been published before.
Author: Donald Firesmith
Publisher: Donald Firesmith
Published: 2016-05-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1310637458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appeared overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, geologist Jack Oswald picked Angele Menendez, his climatologist wife, to determine if the record temperatures due to climate change was the cause. But the holes were not natural. They were unnatural portals for an invading army of demons. Together with Aileen O'Shannon, a 1,700-year-old sorceress demon-hunter, the three survivors of the research team sent to study the holes had only one chance: to flee down the dangerous Dalton Highway towards the relative safety of Fairbanks. However, the advancing horde of devils, imps, hellhounds, and gargoyles will stop at nothing to prevent their prey from escaping. It is a 350-mile race with simple rules. Win and live; lose and die...
Author: Hu Liqun
Publisher: Sellene Chardou
Published:
Total Pages: 2264
ISBN-13: 1304483320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is a sea of people on the Qianshan Square of Shuijianzong, and the crowds are surging. Not only the three generations of disciples from the outer court of Jianzong come here to watch the triennial advanced conference, but also the children under the age of ten who have just started their studies in Lian Gang
Author: Cherita M. Ford
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-05-04
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 1634179811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Heaven and Hell On Earth
Author: Stanley Coleman Jersey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1603444556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents battlefield accounts and first-person narratives from over 200 Allied and Japanese veterans of the battle on Guadalcanal Island between August 1942 and February 1943.
Author: Martin W. Bowman
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2006-09-15
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1783409347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book contains twenty-three stirring accounts of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two was really like. The writers are a mixed bunch of pilots, navigators and gunners who flew medium and heavy bombers or Mosquitoes. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the comradeship between the crew and often the humor between them which was often bred from fear.The gentle and unassuming narratives convey the sense of purpose that these men felt in doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the war. It is a fitting tribute to those that survived and the many thousands who died in the struggle against Hitler's dreadful ambitions in Europe.
Author: Jay A. Stout
Publisher: Dutton Caliber
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0425274101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished. The Hell's Angels. At the outbreak of World War II, the United States was in no way prepared to wage war. Although the U.S declared war against Germany in December 1941, the country lacked the manpower, the equipment, and the experience it needed to fight. Even had an invasion force been ready, a successful assault on Nazi-occupied Europe could not happen until Germany's industrial and military might were crippled. Because no invasion could happen without air superiority, the first target was the Luftwaffe--the most powerful and battle-hardened air force in the world. To this end, the United States Army Air Forces joined with Great Britain's already-engaged Royal Air Force to launch a strategic air campaign that ultimately brought the Luftwaffe to its knees. One of the standout units of this campaign was the legendary 303rd Bomb Group--Hell's Angels. This is the 303rd's story, as told by the men who made it what it was. Taking their name from their B-17 of the same name, they became one of the most distinguished and important air combat units in history. The dramatic and terrible air battles they fought against Germany changed the course of the war.
