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Author | : Steven J. Zaloga |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849089671 |
The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when, following two years of tests, Hitler gave the order to attack England. Known to the Allies as the "Buzz Bomb" or "Doodlebug", the V-1 was the world's first cruise missile. This book explores the V-1 in detail, from its initial concept, first use in 1944, the various Allied counter-measures, and the later use of the V-1 during the Battle of the Bulge. The major foreign derivatives, including the US copy "JB-2 Loon" and numerous post-war Soviet variants, are also covered.
Author | : Andrew Thomas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2013-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780962940 |
Shortly after the Allied landings in France the Germans unleashed the first of their so-called 'revenge weapons', the V1 flying bomb. Launched from specially constructed sites in northern France, the fast, small, pulse-jet powered pilotless aircraft were aimed at London with the sole intent of destroying civilian morale to the point where the British government would be forced to sue for peace. This dangerous new threat drew an immediate response, and the Air Defence of Great Britain (as Fighter Command had been temporarily renamed) established layers of defence that included a gun line and balloon barrage. The main element, however, were standing patrols by the fastest piston-engined fighters available to the RAF – the new Tempest V and Griffon-powered Spitfire XIV. Other types were allocated too, most notably the Polish Mustang wing, while night defence was left in the capable hands of several dedicated Mosquito squadrons. Although pilotless, the V1 was no easy foe thanks to its speed, powerful warhead and sheer unpredictability. Nevertheless, 154 pilots became V1 aces, 25 of whom were also aces against manned aircraft.
Author | : Joachim Engelmann |
Publisher | : Schiffer Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1997-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780887404085 |
One of the true land-marks of flight, this book covers its limited yet devastating use during WWII.
Author | : Ryusuke Ishiguro |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788389450128 |
Japanese Special Attack (Kamikaze) aircraft are well know, but not well described in literature. This book is the first in English on this subject. Details are provided of a wide selection of historic machines and fascinating color schemes, as well as full technical details.
Author | : Aero Publishers, inc |
Publisher | : Tab Books |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Brief text and captioned photographs describe the design, technical details, and operations of the Kamikaze attack planes.
Author | : Dirk Septer |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1772031283 |
"A story seemingly drawn out of a Hollywood action script...Gripping stuff."--Canada's History Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a US Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada's northwest coast. The crew jumped, and the plane ditched somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Almost four years later, the wreck of the bomber was found accidentally in a remote location in the coastal mountains of British Columbia, three hours' flying time in the opposite direction of where it was supposed to have crashed. After years of silence, the United States finally admitted to losing its very first nuclear bomb; the incident was its first Broken Arrow, the code name for accidents involving nuclear weapons. But was the bomb dropped and exploded over the Inside Passage, or was it blown up at the aircraft's resting place in the mountains? This Cold War-era tale follows the last flight of bomber 075 and attempts to unravel the real story behind more than fifty years of secrecy, misdirection, and misinformation.
Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428990488 |
In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Author | : Anon |
Publisher | : Naval & Military Press |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2021-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783318100 |
Detailed record of the 41 V-1 flying bombs that fell on Streatham in the summer of 1944. Contains full details of each one describing their effect and how the Civil Defence dealt with them.
Author | : Manfred Griehl |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784380164 |
The plans that Nazi Germany had to raid - and bomb - New York and the eastern seabord are revealed in this book. They were were based on the use of transoceanic aircraft planes, such as the six-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400, but the Third Reich was unable to produce such machines in sufficient numbers. If the Soviet Union had been conquered, however, these plans would have become a reality. With the seizure of vital resources from the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht would have had enough fuel and material to mass-produce giant bomber aircraft: it was a near run thing. The collapse of the Wehrmacht infrastructure and the end of the Thousand-Year Reich ensured that plans for long-range remote-controlled missiles never got off the drawing board and were never manufactured. Manfried Griehl makes it clear that until the collapse, numerous secret research laboratories seemed to have worked in parallel seeking nuclear power and explosives. Only classified material held within British, French and American archives can prove whether these groups were close to perfecting small atomic explosives. But, without a shadow of doubt, Germany was far more technologically advanced by the end of 1944 that has been previously suspected.
Author | : Kenneth P. Werrell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |