Airfields Of The Eighth
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| Author | : Roger Freeman |
| Publisher | : After the Battle |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1978-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1399076868 |
A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and moldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavors of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men. For such they are.
| Author | : Roger Anthony Freeman |
| Publisher | : After the Battle |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Air bases, American |
| ISBN | : 9780900913099 |
This work is a nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the World War II. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and mouldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavours of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men.
| Author | : Martin Bowman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2013-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472800524 |
The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
| Author | : Ivo de Jong |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081171201X |
"Drawing on vivid firsthand accounts from American and German pilots and crews, this minute-by-minute chronicle reconstructs the fierce combat in the skies over Holland, describing the mistakes and misfortunes that left targets undestroyed and soured the anticipated 'milk run'"--Page 4 of cover.
| Author | : William N Hess |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008535 |
'Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' - this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book. His official endorsement reveals just how important a document Down to Earth was to the teaching of tyro fighter pilots heading for action in the ETO. More leading aces were lost to flak whilst ground strafing than to German fighters. In this book William Hess has included biographies of all the pilots that originally contributed to this work back in 1943-44.
| Author | : Philip Kaplan |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1510705155 |
Beginning in 1942, the Eighth Air Force began a precision bombing raid offensive deep into Nazi Germany, embarking from bases in rural England. Nearly 350,000 Americans were transplanted to English soil, joining their British colleagues for this joint Allied offensive. For many it was a period of great risk, and arguably the greatest adventure of their lives. With Wings As Eagles celebrates the heroics of these pilots and their missions. A lavishly illustrated, full-color, hardcover original, the narrative is the result of the author’s exclusive interviews with many of the pilots and crew, as well as research from contemporary diaries, journals, and scrapbooks. Readers relive the nostalgia and vivid reminiscences — of days of seemingly endless boredom and fatigue, the loneliness of soaring in an aluminum cocoon four miles over an intended target, and a surprising account of parachuting onto German soil and being captured by women and children. With Wings As Eagles relives the drama and history of an heroic era.
| Author | : Roger A. Freeman |
| Publisher | : Specialty Press (MN) |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Includes aircraft and crews from every U.S. Eighth Air Force base operational in Britain in WWII. The author is a leading historian.
| Author | : Martin W. Bowman |
| Publisher | : Red Kite / Air Research |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2004-02 |
| Genre | : B-17 bomber |
| ISBN | : 0954620100 |
En fotografisk fortælling med tekst om Eigth Air Force Boeing B-17 i dens operative miljø. Tegninger der viser bemaling af flyet er i farver.
| Author | : Roger A. Freeman |
| Publisher | : Ihs Global Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1981-01-01 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : 9780710600387 |
A day by day operational record of the United States 8th Air Force which was based in the United Kingdom during World War II.
| 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.
