Tag: Disastrous

Free Download Henry ‘Hank’ Adlam, Philip Zieger – The Disastrous Fall and Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945
Pen and Sword Aviation | 2014 | ISBN: 1473821134 | English | 280 pages | PDF | 85.8 MB
In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm’s policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes and successes that characterized the service history of the Fleet Air Arm. Offering criticism on the service hierarchies that made up the Fleet, backed up by his having served in six Carriers and flown from them in all five theaters of sea warfare during five years of the Second World War, Adlam presents a highly entertaining and potentially controversial study which is sure to appeal to a wide array of aviation enthusiasts.

Free Download Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown
by Pat Farabaugh
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1540250148 | 194 Pages | True ePUB | 5.75 MB

Free Download Battle Under the Moon: The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-Le-Camp, 1944 by Jack Currie
English | February 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1910809802 | 184 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid, on 3 May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France, part of the softening up process on German military targets, in preparation for the D-Day landings. Raids like this over occupied France were considered relatively low risk affairs and only counted for one third of a mission for the crews concerned. In total, 362 RAF bombers, Lancasters, Mosquitoes and Halifax, from bases in England took part in a raid and although no-one involved anticipated disaster, forty-two Lancasters never returned home. Almost incredibly, those who planned the attack were apparently unaware that four German night fighter bases were located nearby. Luftwaffe fighters wreaked havoc on the bombers as they circled a marker in bright moonlight awaiting the order to attack their targetThis is the story of that battle, bitterly contested and ever-remembered by those who were engaged, one among hundreds that were fought in the skies over Europe between the RAF’s bombers and the Luftwaffe’s night-fighters in the course of World War Two. It lasted less than sixty minutes but cost two hundred and fifty-five lives.