Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II
Author : Robert D. Loomis
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1961
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ISBN :
Author : Robert D. Loomis
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Enzo Angelucci
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Airplanes, Military
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Author : Jeffrey L. Ethell
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN :
Subtitled: American Fighters in Original World War II Color. Contrary to the impression left by most World War II books, the war was not fought in black-and-white. We_re proud to recall this era with the greatest collection of World War II color photography ever assembled. Crisp color photos of P-51s, P-38s, B-26s, B-17s, Me 262s, Me 109s, FW 190s, and many more. All are of such high quality you would swear they were just taken. The men, bases, planes and countryside _ plus firsthand accounts of experiences from U.S. and German pilots and ground crews. "...An excellent indication of the life of a fighter unit." Air Classics. Hdbd., 10 x 10, 176 pgs., 200 original b&w color photos.
Author : James A. Oleson
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN :
Over one hundred fighter pilots give personal glimpses of their military careers.
Author : Rick Tollini
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612009824
A US Air Force Captain tells the story of his life and service during Operation Desert Storm in this thrilling military memoir. A pilot all his life, Rick “Kluso” Tollini turned his childhood dream into a reality when he became a fighter pilot for the US Air Force. In Call Sign KLUSO, Rick “Kluso” Tollini puts the fraught minutes above the Iraqi desert that made him an ace into the context of a full life; exploring how he came to be flying a F-15C in Desert Storm, and how that day became a pivotal moment in his life. He recounts his training, preparation, and missions, as well as the life of a fighter pilot in a combat zone. He also explores life as an air force veteran, and his turn to Buddhism as he comes to terms with his actions in combat. Rick’s first experience of flying was in a Piper PA-18 over 1960s’ California as a small boy, and his love of flying through his teenage years was fostered by his pilot father, eventually blossoming into a decision to join the Air Force as a pilot in his late twenties. Having trained to fly jets he was assigned to fly the F-15 Eagle with the “Dirty Dozen,” the 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, at Kadena AB, Japan, before returning Stateside to the 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron “The Gorillas.” Throughout training, Reagan’s fighter pilots expected to face the Soviet Union, but Rick’s first combat deployment was Desert Storm.
Author : C. J. Chivers
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1451676662
The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in America’s forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls “relentless...a classic of war reporting,” by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Marine C.J. Chivers. More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, and C.J. Chivers reported on both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry officer, and a Special Forces sergeant. Chivers captures their courage, commitment, sense of purpose, and ultimately their suffering, frustration, and moral confusion as new enemies arise and invasions give way to counterinsurgency duties for which American forces were often not prepared. The Fighters is a “gripping, unforgettable” (The Boston Globe) portrait of modern warfare. Told with the empathy and understanding of an author who is himself an infantry veteran, The Fighters is “a masterful work of atmospheric reporting, and it’s a book that will have every reader asking—with varying degrees of urgency or anger or despair—the final question Chivers himself asks: ‘How many lives had these wars wrecked?’” (Christian Science Monitor).
Author : Amy E. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 9780760769287
Author : Bill Norton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 9781580071093
This book focuses on those American fighter projects of WWII that never reached combat forces, or only in a very limited manner. The book illuminates little known or minimally documented aircraft and projects that significantly advanced fighter design that never went into full-rate production and deployment. The 'standard' types are also examined to illustrate the 'state-of-the-art' at the time, the American posture and capabilities, goals set by national and military leadership, and general factors affecting the course of development for classes of fighters. Hence, this work follows the overall development of American fighter aircraft, but emphasizes those little-known projects that matured to the point of significant design development such as mockups, wind-tunnel models, and especially those yielding flying prototypes. Also includes 'dead-end' variants of service types, those only exported after US evaluation, and aircraft that entered service in only small numbers before being overcome by more advanced models or the end of hostilities.
Author : Enzo Angelucci
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 1987-10-01
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ISBN : 9785550235577
Author : John R. Bruning
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1612340865
Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the highest-scoring fighter group in the Pacific. Tragically, though Johnson had survived three combat tours, which included a mid-air collision with a Japanese aircraft and being shot down by friendly fire, the new father disappeared without a trace while flying a courier mission one month after the war’s end.