Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782008330
The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.
Author : Gregory Pons
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9782915239829
Americas strategy for complete victory over Nazi Germany called for the utter destruction of major its major industrial areas. These raids were carried out as early as 1942 by hundreds of heavy bombers from the US 8th Air Force, based in England. The descriptions of combat missions flown by B-17 crews over occupied Europe and the Reich are illustrated with official and private pictures taken from the personal albums of pilots, crew members, mechanics and Air Force photographers.
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781854095312
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.
Author : Charles W. McArthur
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821801581
Operations research grew out of the application of the scientific method to certain problems of war during World War II. This book tells the story of how operations research became an important activity in the Eighth Air Force. It emphasizes the people involved in these historical events, rather than the technical matters with which they dealt.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850
Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1681773791
The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February—targeting German aircraft production plants—to bringing the Luftwaffe to battle over Berlin, the combined US Air Force-Royal Air Force forces’ round-the clock campaign bottled up the German army in Normandy.In this authoritative history, Kevin Wilson reveals the blood and heroism of the 8th Air Force. At the same time, he opens up the lives of the Women's Army Corps and Red Cross girls who served in England with them and feared for the men in the skies, and he hasn't flinched from recounting the devastation of bombing or the testimony of shocked German civilians.Drawing on first-hand accounts from diaries, letters, and his personal audio recordings, the author has brought to life the ebullient Americans' interaction with their British counterparts, unveiling stories of humanity and heartbreak. Thanks to America's bomber boys and girls, the tide of World War II shifted forever.
Author : William N Hess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782008535
'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.
Author : Marshall J. Thixton
Publisher : Fnp Military Division
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1472800524
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.
Author : Jerry Scutts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782006753
Unquestionably the best American fighter of World War 2, the North American P-51 Mustang served in large numbers with the USAAF's Eighth Air Force from late 1943 until VE Day, and was the mount of most aces in-theatre. Charged with the responsibility of escorting huge formations of B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers on daylight raids deep into Germany, the P-51 pilots of the various fighter groups within the 'Mighty Eighth' went head to head with the cream of the Luftwaffe's fighter squadrons for control of the skies over the Third Reich. Aircraft of the Aces 1, 19 and 24 are also available in a single volume as 'Aces of the Mighty Eighth'.
