Bombardiers' Information File
Author : United States. Army Air Forces. Office of Flying Safety
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN :
Bombardiers' Information File, BIF.
Author : United States. Army Air Forces. War Department
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1945
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Bombardiers' Information File (BIF)
Author : Army Air Forces
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 035908818X
Book Description
This is the complete document. Due to its large size, you can view/download this document in the following separate sections, depending on your interests.
Odyssey of a Bombardier
Author : John J. Hurt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611494966
Book Description
Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 “Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World War II. The log follows Mason from the day his plane crashed until his liberation in April, 1945, and his return home to the United States. Included are such topics as medical treatment and rehabilitation for wounded prisoners of the Germans, life in Stalag Luft III, a difficult long march in an arctic winter to another camp, the travails of prisoners in the overcrowded, filthy camp at Moosburg, critical food shortages, and the arrival of General George Patton with the liberating forces. Mason was an amateur artist and illustrated his journal with moving depictions of prison life and comradeship. This book shows U.S. airmen demonstrating grace and courage under pressure and meeting every challenge that their imprisonment presented.
WWII Bombardiers
Author : Philip A. St. John
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : 1563113384
Book Description
Includes history of various bomb groups, pictures and biographies of bombardiers, and history of the development of bombing equipment.
Shadow
Author : Neil Hunter Raiford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786481491
Book Description
This is the poignant and exciting story of a statistical anomaly, a B-24 bomber crew that completed 50 combat missions in World War II. This crew was part of the famous 450th Bomb Group, which was nicknamed the "Cottontails" because of their white rudders. As part of the 15th Army Air Force, they flew strategic bombing missions out of Manduria, Italy (in the heel of the boot) and struck strategic targets which were out of the reach of the 8th Army Air Force bases in England. The group lost 1,505 airmen in only a year and a half--the equivalent of losing their effective flying strength three times over. The book's title comes from the crew's bomber, Shadow, which in turn was named for the pilot's black cocker spaniel that flew with them on training missions. Based on interviews with the surviving crewmembers and their families as well as extant archival source material, the book details the childhood, training and post-war life of each of its 13 principal characters. Chapter One is a discussion of each man's boyhood years and Chapter Two provides details of the training that each received. In Chapter Three, the original crew of ten (Crew #4-N-33) was formed in Clovis, New Mexico. An assignment for training in Clovis and in B-24s meant that the crew had been designated for heavy bombardment. Chapter Four includes a description of the four main objectives for the crew, one of which was to participate in POINTBLANK, the Combined Bomber Offensive, which called for the destruction of German fighter aircraft plants, ball bearing plants, oil refineries, rubber plants, munitions factories, sub pens and bases. Details of the structural components of most missions are provided in Chapter Five. The crew completes its first missions in Chapter Six. In Chapter Seven, "Shadow" completes its last after taking enemy fire, and Chapter Eight introduces a new plane, Sleepy Time Gal. The book's Epilogue contains information about the post-war lives of the crew.
Rise of the War Machines
Author : Raymond Patrick O'Mara
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1682477495
Book Description
Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II. Raymond P. O’Mara builds a conceptual model of humans, machines, and doctrine that demonstrates a distinctly new way of waging warfare in human-machine teams. Specifically, O’Mara examines how the U.S. Army’s quest to control the complex technological and doctrinal system necessary to execute the strategic bombing mission led to the development of automation in warfare. Rise of the War Machines further explores how the process of sharing both physical and cognitive control of the precision bombing system established distinct human-machine teams with complex human-to—human and human-to-machine social relationships. O’Mara presents the precision bombing system as distinctly socio-technical, constructed of interdependent specially trained roles (the pilot, navigator, and bombardier); purpose-built automated machines (the Norden bombsight, specialized navigation tools, and the Minneapolis-Honeywell C-1 Autopilot); and the high-altitude, daylight bombing doctrine, all of which mutually shaped each other’s creation and use.
Belle of the Brawl
Author : Gary A Best
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0752466488
Book Description
This wartime biography follows the life of a Second World War B-17 bombardier from the beginning of the war to its conclusion. Based on the 150 letters the airman, Fred Lull, wrote home to his mother, much of the horrors of what he experienced off the wing of his plane, aircraft destroyed, dismemberment by flak, go unshared. Fred did not want his mother to worry and could not tell her: ‘I noticed some movement and a flash of light out of the corner of my right eye. The plane that had been flying right next to us had exploded and simply disappeared.’ Using the bombardier’s combat flight record, research data and interviews of former B-17 crew members, the story unfolds, breaking through the barrier of an unwillingness and inability to tell loved ones of the smell and taste of war.
Finish Forty and Home
Author : Phil Scearce
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574413163
Book Description
The true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific, while America had its eyes on the war in Europe.
Connected, Intelligent, Automated
Author : Nicole Radziwill
Publisher : Quality Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1951058011
Book Description
Quality 4.0 is for all industries, and this book is for anyone who wants to learn how Industry 4.0 and Quality 4.0 can help improve quality and performance in their team or company. This comprehensive guide is the culmination of 25 years of research and practice-exploring, implementing, and critically examining the quality and performance improvement aspects of Industry 4.0 technologies. Navigate the connected, intelligent, and automated ecosystems of infrastructure, people, objects, machines, and data. Sift through the noise around AI, AR, big data, blockchain, cybersecurity, and other rising technologies and emerging issues to find the signals for your organization. Discover the value proposition of Quality 4.0 and the leading role for quality professionals to drive successful digital transformation initiatives. The changes ahead are powerful, exciting, and overwhelming-and we can draw on the lessons from past work to mitigate the risks we face today.Connected, Intelligent, Automated provides you with the techniques, philosophies, and broad overall knowledge you need to understand Quality 4.0, and helps you leverage those things for the future success of your enterprise. Chapter 1: Quality 4.0 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Chapter 2: Connected Ecosystems Chapter 3: Intelligent Agents and Machine Learning Chapter 4: Automation: From Manual Labor to Autonomy Chapter 5: Quality 4.0 Use Cases Across Industries Chapter 6: From Algorithms to Advanced Analytics Chapter 7: Delivering Value and Impact Through Data Science Chapter 8: Data Quality and Data Management Chapter 9: Software Applications & Data Platforms Chapter 10: Blockchain Chapter 11: Performance Excellence Chapter 12: Environment, Health, Safety, Quality (EHSQ), and Cybersecurity Chapter 13: Voice of the Customer (VoC) Chapter 14: Elements of a Quality 4.0 Strategy Chapter 15: Playbook for Transformation N. M. Radziwillspan is Senior VP of Quality and Strategy at Ultranauts, a professional services firm specializing in quality assurance and quality engineering for software, data science, and digital transformation. Radziwill is editor of the journal, Software Quality Professional, an ASQ fellow, and an ASQ-certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Radziwill is one of ASQ's Influential Voices and blogs.
