Tag: WW2

US Military in WW2 Fighter Pilots (Annotated)


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English | 2018 | ASIN: B07HB2PYFG | EPUB | pages: 630 | 2.3 mb
US Military in WW2: Fighter Pilots presents three first-hand accounts of life as a combat pilot during World War 2. Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid by Martin Caidin The blow-by-blow account of the United States Air Force’s massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety-one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses – escorted by squadrons of nimble P-47 Thunderbolts – miraculously fought their way through swarms of enemy aircraft on their way to cripple Nazi Germany’s vital ball-bearings plant at Schweinfurt. The Saga of Pappy Gunn by George Churchill Kenney The best-selling biography of legendary World War 2 Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Paul Irving Gunn. Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace by Martin Caidin and Robert S. Johnson Robert S. Johnson was one of America’s leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed narrative of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker’s World War I tally of 26. *Page notes and annotations. *Original hand-picked images from World War 2. *Revised texts with modern American-English spelling and punctuation.

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Leadership in Modern War From WW2 to the War Against ISIS


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English | June 30th, 2023 | ISBN: 139906729X | 248 pages | True EPUB | 26.12 MB
How would you react under fire? Fight or flight? What if you were in charge of a squad of men, with their lives in your hands? The next decision you make could be fatal for you and your comrades or could be devastating to your enemy. The wrong decision could haunt you for the rest of your career and beyond.

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Axis Submarines (WW2 Fact Files)


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Arco Publishing | 1977 | ISBN: 0668041595 | English | 68 pages | PDF | 85.77 MB
Comprehensive overview of Axis submarines during World War II; profusely illustrated with superb b & w photos, charts, tables etc. Classes are arranged in chronological order and technical data is arranged so that the reader can trace the development of a particular class of submarine from each individual country.

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Machine Guns (WW2 Fact Files)


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Arco Publishing | 1974 | ISBN: 0668036087 | English | 68 pages | PDF | 71.98 MB
This book is part of the World War Two Fact Files series which dates back to the 1970s, which would look at various types of weapons (anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank weapons, light and medium field artillery, to name some other examples from the series) and give specifications, an illustration or two, and a short capsule history. As such, if you want a book to give you all you want to know about the MG42, for example, forget it – this will only give you a small entry. However, it will show you weapons that you may not otherwise have ever heard about. In the case of weapons that were used by the Germans after capture or the takeover of production facilities, they will give the German designation. In its own way, this is a useful basic guide book on the subject.

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Dodge WW2 Military Portfolio 1940-1945


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Brookland Books | 2000 | ISBN: 1855205335 | English | 144 pages | PDF | 120.51 MB
A dynamic collection of 22 articles on the characteristics and use of Dodge military vehicles during WW2

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British Aircraft Carriers of WW2 (Ships Illustrated) (2024)


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Ships Monthly | I2014 | ISBN: 1909786276 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 101.31 MB
Each issue focuses on a theme or significant historic ship, their stories complemented with archive photography and artwork. A real collectors item and great read for anyone with an interest in the development of naval, passenger and transportation shipping.

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