A combat history of the American Air Service in World War I.
Author: James J. Hudson
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815604653
Category: History
Page: 354
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A combat history of the American Air Service in World War I.Hostile Skies
The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace. David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir.
Author: David Morgan
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781780225005
Category: History
Page: 320
View: 832
The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace. David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Here he recounts his involvement in the first British air-strike against Argentine positions around Port Stanley and describes being first on the scene when enemy jets bombed the landing ships SIR TRISTRAM and SIR GALAHAD. Including the author's heartfelt letters sent back to England to close family and friends, HOSTILE SKIES dramatically recalls what it was really like to fight, live and love during the Falklands War.In Hostile Skies
... training that all American pilots received, the strain that training and service placed on relationships, and the toil of combat in Europe's skies.
Author: James M. Davis
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574412093
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 226
View: 458
James "Jim” Davis lived what he considered "an impossible dream” as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. In this memoir, Davis offers heart-wrenching detail concerning the difficulties of qualifying for the U.S. Army Air Forces pilot program, the strenuous nature of the pilot training program, the anxiety caused by a wartime marriage, and the dangers of flying combat missions over Nazi Germany. Few, if any, other memoirs provide the genuineness and honesty of his story. From his struggles to become a pilot, to seeing death up close on his first mission, to his expected deployment to the Pacific Theatre in the fall of 1945, Davis takes the reader through a fast-paced and exciting narrative adventure. Davis and his crew flew support missions for Operations Cobra and Market Garden and numerous bombing missions over occupied Europe in the summer and fall of 1944. He piloted his B-24 on missions over twenty German cities, including Cologne, Hamburg, Metz, and Munich, and attacked enemy airfields, airplane factories, railroad marshalling yards, ship yards, oil refineries, and chemical plants. While he and his crew survived without serious injuries, they witnessed the destruction of many of their friends’ planes and experienced serious damage to their own plane on several occasions. Readers of his memoir will come away with a much greater appreciation for the difficulties and dangers of the air war in World War II. David Snead happened upon the memoir and its author during his time at Texas Tech University. He was immediately hooked and began the process of preparing it for publication. Snead met with Davis on several occasions, examined his military records, researched in detail at the National Archives, and investigated numerous published sources in order to corroborate the account and add explanatory notes for context.Hostile Skies
The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace.
Author: David Morgan
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
ISBN: 0753821990
Category: History
Page: 320
View: 614
The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace. David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Here he recounts his involvement in the first British air-strike against Argentine positions around Port Stanley and describes being first on the scene when enemy jets bombed the landing ships SIR TRISTRAM and SIR GALAHAD. Including the author's heartfelt letters sent back to England to close family and friends, HOSTILE SKIES dramatically recalls what it was really like to fight, live and love during the Falklands War.Hostile skies
Valor in Hostile Skies
The untold heroism of a WWII bomber pilot who flew 65 missions over Europe. Lt. George O. Bluhm, 646th Bombardment Squadron, 410th Bomb Group, American 9th Army Air Force.
Author: Edward H. Steve
Publisher:
ISBN: 1601264933
Category:
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The untold heroism of a WWII bomber pilot who flew 65 missions over Europe. Lt. George O. Bluhm, 646th Bombardment Squadron, 410th Bomb Group, American 9th Army Air Force.Into Hostile Skies
Into Hostile Skies And The B 52 Bomber
This book is the real-life story of the last man to manually bail out of a burning B-52 during the Viet Nam war after his ejection seat failed.
Author: Jean Abalos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798513693208
Category:
Page: 138
View: 497
The Vietnam War was fought between communist North Vietnam and the government of Southern Vietnam. The North was supported by communist countries such as the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The South was supported by anti-communist countries, primarily the United States. The United States lost the Vietnam War. It lasted for twenty years, something the US never expected when it joined in the fight. Not only did the US lose the war and the country of Vietnam to the communists, but the US also lost prestige in the eyes of the world. This book is the real-life story of the last man to manually bail out of a burning B-52 during the Viet Nam war after his ejection seat failed. His near-death experience is described as he desperately tries to find a parachute in the airplane, bails out, and drifts, without a raft in open, shark-infested seas for hours. Told by the man who lived it, former Capt. Myles McTernan, his co-pilot William Milcarek, and aircraft commander, Jerry Wickline. It tells the story of his crew's survival as well.Billy Mitchell s War with the Navy
Cooke, BillyMitchell, 81; Hudson, Hostile Skies, 95. 60. toFoulois, July19, 1918, Correspondence 1918, box 6, MP. 61. Personal Memorandum for General ...
Author: Thomas Wildenberg
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781612513324
Category: History
Page: 288
View: 798
In the years following WWI, the U.S. Congress was more interested in disarmament than in funding national defense. For the military services this meant lean budgets and skeleton operating forces. Billy Mitchell’s War recounts the struggle between the Army and Navy air arms for the resources needed to define and establish the role of aviation within their respective services in the period between the two world wars. When Billy Mitchell returned from WW I, he brought with him the deep-seated belief that air power had made armies and navies obsolete. When Congress rejected the concept of a unified air service in 1920, Mitchell and his supporters turned on the Navy, seeking to substitute the Air Service as the nation's first line of defense. While Mitchell proved that aircraft could sink a battleship with the bombing of the Ostfriesland in 1921, he was unable to convince the General Staff of the Army, the General Board of the Navy, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or Congress of the need for an independent air force. When Mitchell turned to the pen to discredit the Navy, he was convicted by his own words and actions in a court-martial that captivated the nation, and was forced to resign in 1925. Rather then ending the rivalry for air power, Mitchell’s resignation set the stage for the ongoing dispute between the two services in the years immediately before WWII.First Fighter
Winged Shield Winged Sword
Hudson , Hostile Skies , pp 46–61 . 24. Finis Farr , Rickenbacker's Luck , An American Life ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1979 ) , pp 40–75 . 25.
Author: Bernard C. Nalty
Publisher: Air Force History & Museums Program
ISBN: STANFORD:36105211294041
Category: Aeronautics, Military
Page: 1192
View: 924
Beskriver de amerikanske flystyrkers historiske udvikling i perioden 1907-1950.War Bird Ace
Also see Hudson , Hostile Skies , 223 ; and 148th Aero Squadron , " Combats in the Air " report , 24 September 1918 . A letter of recommendation for ...
Author: Jack Stokes Ballard
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585445541
Category: History
Page: 224
View: 923
Capt. Field E. Kindley, with the famous Eddie Rickenbacker, was one of America’s foremost World War I flying aces. Like Rickenbacker’s, Kindley’s story is one of fierce dogfights, daring aerial feats, and numerous brushes with death. Yet unlike Rickenbacker’s, Kindley’s story has not been fully told until now. Field Kindley gained experience with the RAF before providing leadership for the U.S. Air Service. Kindley was the fourth-ranking American air ace; his exploits earned him a Distinguished Service Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster from the United States and a Distinguished Flying Cross from the British government. In February 1920, during a practice drill Kindley led, some enlisted men unwittingly entered the bombing target area. “Buzzing” the troops to warn them off the field, Kindley somehow lost control of his plane and died in the ensuing crash. Using arduously gathered primary materials and accounts of Great War aces, Jack Ballard tells the story of this little-known hero from the glory days of aerial warfare. Through this tale, an era and a daring flyer live again.Undarkened Skies
Hudson, J. J., Hostile Skies (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1968). Jane, F. T., All the World's Aircraft—1919 (Newton Abbot, ...
Author: Paul R. Hare
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 160
View: 732
The full story of the American aeroplane building programme in book form for the first timeComprehensively illustrated, including some previously unpublished photographsRich in detail, this will be of interest to aviation and military historians as well as modellers Soon after entering the war in April 1917, American propaganda promised that the country would ‘darken the skies over Europe’ by sending over ‘the greatest aerial armada ever seen’. Encouraged by the French Government, America promised to build no fewer than 22,000 aeroplanes within a year and to field and maintain a force of 4,000 machines, all of the latest type, over the Western Front during 1918. This was to provide adequate air support for her own troops, as well as a way of using her industrial strength to bypass the squalor of the war in the trenches, and so bring an end to the stalemate of attrition into which the war had descended. However, by the time of the Armistice more than eighteen months later, just a few hundred American-built aeroplanes had reached the war fronts and several investigations into the causes of the failure of the project were already in progress. Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War examines the fascinating history of American aircraft manufacturing during the latter years of the First World War, in addition to investigating the causal factors of America’s lack of progress in the air.American Public Address
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Contrails
CONTRAILS Memoirs of A Cold Warrior Jack Jaacks writes a moving personal account of a Midwestern farm boy who dreamed of becoming a military officer and an Air Force Pilot.
Author: John William Jaacks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781483684307
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 253
View: 258
CONTRAILS Memoirs of A Cold Warrior Jack Jaacks writes a moving personal account of a Midwestern farm boy who dreamed of becoming a military officer and an Air Force Pilot. During the Cold War of the 1950's an attack against the United States by Russian bombers carrying nuclear bombs was believed to be a certainty. America built an Air Defense system to protect itself. Nearly 2000 fighter-interceptor aircraft and 5,000 pilots guarded the skies above America Like fighter pilots of generations before them, the U.S. Air Defense Command pilots flew into hostile skies and lived out the dreams of their youth. And, like their forefathers, many died in keeping America free. No Soviet bomber ever penetrated the U. S. Air Defenses. Jaacks flew the first jet Fighter-Interceptors, the Sabers, Starfires, Scorpions and Delta Daggers in Alaska, the continental U.S., Canada, and in Europe with the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Contrails describes the intensity of a life of an interceptor pilot and how Jaacks became a member of the elite cops of aviators that was the first line of defense against a Soviet nuclear attack against America.Air University Review
Beneficial Bombing
Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality, 76–81. See also Greer, Development of Air Doctrine, 9. 63. James J. Hudson, Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American ...
Author: Mark Clodfelter
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803234499
Category: History
Page: 400
View: 358
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movementto reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. InBeneficial BombingMark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy bomber as their solution to limiting the bloodshed. They were convinced that the airplane, used as a bombing platform, offered the means to make wars less lethal than conflicts waged by armies or navies. Clodfelter examines the progressive idealism that led to the creation of the U.S. Air Force and its doctrine that the finite destruction of precision bombing would end wars more quickly and with less suffering foreachbelligerent. What is more, his work shows how these progressive ideas emerged intact after World War II to become the foundation of modern U.S. Air Force doctrine. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, including critical documents unavailable to previous researchers, Clodfelter presents the most complete analysis ever of the doctrinal development underpinning current U.S. Air Force notions about strategic bombing.Poetic fragments for translation into Greek Verses Dramatic
When Trumpets Call
386 the worst month of the war: James J. Hudson, Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I, Syracuse: Syracuse University, ...
Author: Patricia O'Toole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780684864785
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 512
View: 507
An analysis of the final ten years of Theodore Roosevelt's life describes how he went on safari after leaving the White House, unsuccessfully strived for another presidential term, worked to support Liberty bonds when the U.S. entered World War I, and lost his son on Bastille Day. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.