Tag: Aviators

Free Download Bruce H. Wolk, "Jewish Aviators in World War II: Personal Narratives of American Men and Women"
English | ASIN : B01D3AGBAQ | 2016 | 225 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigotry and scorn by their fellow servicemen. Jews were sometimes characterized as disloyal and cowardly, malingering in the slanderous (and non-existent) "Jewish Quartermaster Corps" or sitting out the war in easy assignments. Based on interviews with more than 100 Jewish air veterans, this oral history features the recollections of pilots, crew members and support personnel in all theaters of combat and all branches of the service, including Jewish women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The subjects recall their combat experiences, lives as POWs, and anti-Semitism in the ranks, as well as human interest anecdotes such as encounters with the Tuskegee Airmen.

Free Download Central Coast Aviators in World War II by Jim Gregory
English | May 14, 2018 | ISBN: 154023357X | 146 pages | EPUB | 3.08 Mb
A tribute to the heroism shown by military pilots and aircrew from rural California towns who risked their lives and made their mark on American history. During World War II, thousands of volunteer combat aviators trained at places like Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Hancock Field in Santa Maria. Some air cadets and WASPs-young women pilots-lost their lives in training accidents. The graduates would go on to fight in both the Pacific and European theaters. They faced flak bursts and collisions that resulted in horrifying explosions and were sent on strafing runs that made them targets in a lethal shooting gallery. Downed airmen encountered both unexpected kindness and cruel deprivation as prisoners of war. Through interviews and official records, Jim Gregory tells the stories of heroic Central Coast veterans who fought a war that stretched from New Guinea to North Africa.

Free Download Charles Woolley – World War I German Aviators: The Sanke Cards
Schiffer Publishing | 2003 | ISBN: 0764318799 | English | 280 pages | PDF | 134.21 MB
For the first time in eighty-five years, the famous Sanke postcards of World War I Imperial German Aviators have been reproduced. Clear, large scale copies of all known and highly collectible Sanke personality photo postcards produced during World War I are now available, carefully replicated, and included all under one cover in this deluxe volume. Over 270 different cards of 132 individual aviators are included in this ground-breaking edition. Boelcke, Immelmann, the Richthofen brothers, Udet, and Göring are just a few of the famed aces and Pour le Mérite flyers photographed by Postkarten-Vertrieb Willi Sanke. Each postcard is given full page coverage, accompanied by a brief history of each man, together with his victories and highest attained award. A bibliography is included for the reader desiring to further research the lives of Germany’s unusual, heralded, and greatest heroes of the First War. This book is a must for the student of uniforms as it depicts the amazing variety worn by the flyers of the Luftstreitkräfte 1914-1918, and also shows them wearing the multitude of awards and decorations presented to Germany’s airborne heroes. Both private and museum collections have been combed to provide this book with the finest possible coverage ever compiled on the work of Willi Sanke and his talented photographers.

Free Download C. G. Sweeting – Combat Flying Equipment: U.S. Army Aviators’ Personal Equipment, 1917-1945
Smithsonian Institution Press | 1989 | ISBN: 0874748941 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 225.33 MB
Many B&W pics of equipement High altitude suits as well as full pressure suits designed for flight above the stratosphere including experimental suits from B.F. Goodrich and the Tomato Worm Suit that lead the way to the modern space suit, as well as Hard articulated suits developed in Nazi Germany for testing the Horten Flying Wing.