Famous Air Force Bombers
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Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780396086215 |
A history of the bombers used by the Air Force through the years with descriptions of the various kinds.
Author | : David Coxe Cooke |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780396066958 |
Major developments in U.S. Air Force bomber planes are depicted in photographs and concise text
Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780396086208 |
Summary: Traces the development of Air Force aviation by examining specific types of fighter planes.
Author | : Stephen Lee McFarland |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780399612534 |
Traces the development of Air Force aviation by examining specific types of fighter planes.
Author | : William Green |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Oversigt over og beskrivelse af bombefly under 2. verdenskrig fra flere lande
Author | : William Green |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2016-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786258706 |
Originally published in 1959 to much acclaim, William Green’s Famous Bombers Of The Second World War, provides the most accurate and comprehensive view of the bomber aircraft that were used by both the Axis and the Allies. In this first volume, the author covers 18 different aircraft and their variants in their approximate order of introduction to operational service and provides a brief developmental and operational history of each type. Included are: Heinkel HE111, Savoia-Marchetti Sparviero, Boeing Fortress, Junker JU87, Dornier DO17, Vickers Wellington, Junkers JU88, Consolidated Liberator, North American Mitchell, Martin Marauder, De Havilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster. Widely regarded as a pioneering ground from author William Green, it is particularly noted for the many excellent illustrations by G.W. Heumann and comprehensive side profiles of major sub-types, this volume also includes a highly detailed 3-view artwork.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1428915850 |
Author | : Frederick A. Johnsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Airplanes, Military |
ISBN | : 9781610607759 |
Flying at 25,000 feet, loaded with 6000 pounds of bombs, bristling with thirteen .50 caliber machine guns, and with a highly trained and motivated flight crew, the B-17 Flying Fortress became the physical symbol of America's Mighty Eighth Air Force. Arrayed against the Eighth Air Force was Nazi Germany's veteran, battle tested air armada the Luftwaffa. But the B-17 didn't go to war alone. The Eighth Air Force also deployed some of the most famous aircraft: the rugged B-24 Liberator, the nimble P-38 Lightning, the P-47 Thunderbolt with its four pairs of deadly wing mounted .50 caliber machine guns, and the quick and high flying P-51 Mustang.
Author | : Frederick A. Johnsen |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The B-17 pioneered the concepts of strategic bombardment. This work gives technical detail along with little-known facts and stories, as well as accounts of missions, production, avionics, development and the people behind the development of the B-17.