Author: David Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897476461
Category : Military trucks
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Michael Franz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: David Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military trucks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: David Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989554787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: David Doyle
Publisher: Visual History Series
ISBN: 9780986112737
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: N. Jack Kleiss
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062692364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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Hailed as "the single most effective pilot at Midway" (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of Midway, including two aircraft carriers, helping turn the tide of the Second World War. This is his extraordinary memoir. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "AN INSTANT CLASSIC" —Dallas Morning News On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan’s Imperial Navy, which six months earlier had ruthlessly struck Pearl Harbor. The greatest naval battle in history raged around him, its outcome hanging in the balance as the U.S. desperately searched for its first major victory of the Second World War. Then, in a matter of seconds, Dusty Kleiss’s daring 20,000-foot dive helped forever alter the war’s trajectory. Plummeting through the air at 240 knots amid blistering anti-aircraft fire, the twenty-six-year-old pilot from USS Enterprise’s elite Scouting Squadron Six fixed on an invaluable target—the aircraft carrier Kaga, one of Japan’s most important capital ships. He released three bombs at the last possible instant, then desperately pulled out of his gut-wrenching 9-g dive. As his plane leveled out just above the roiling Pacific Ocean, Dusty’s perfectly placed bombs struck the carrier’s deck, and Kaga erupted into an inferno from which it would never recover. Arriving safely back at Enterprise, Dusty was met with heartbreaking news: his best friend was missing and presumed dead along with two dozen of their fellow naval aviators. Unbowed, Dusty returned to the air that same afternoon and, remarkably, would fatally strike another enemy carrier, Hiryu. Two days later, his deadeye aim contributed to the destruction of a third Japanese warship, the cruiser Mikuma, thereby making Dusty the only pilot from either side to land hits on three different ships, all of which sank—losses that crippled the once-fearsome Japanese fleet. By battle’s end, the humble young sailor from Kansas had earned his place in history—and yet he stayed silent for decades, living quietly with his children and his wife, Jean, whom he married less than a month after Midway. Now his extraordinary and long-awaited memoir, Never Call Me a Hero, tells the Navy Cross recipient’s full story for the first time, offering an unprecedentedly intimate look at the "the decisive contest for control of the Pacific in World War II" (New York Times)—and one man’s essential role in helping secure its outcome. Dusty worked on this book for years with naval historians Timothy and Laura Orr, aiming to publish Never Call Me a Hero for Midway’s seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2017. Sadly, as the book neared completion in 2016, Dusty Kleiss passed away at age 100, one of the last surviving dive-bomber pilots to have fought at Midway. And yet the publication of Never Call Me a Hero is a cause for celebration: these pages are Dusty’s remarkable legacy, providing a riveting eyewitness account of the Battle of Midway, and an inspiring testimony to the brave men who fought, died, and shaped history during those four extraordinary days in June, seventy-five years ago.

Author: David Doyle
Publisher: MMD-Squadron Signal
ISBN: 9780897478472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The highly effective "Long Tom" heavy field gun could fire a 100 lb shell over 14 miles (24 km). Officially known as the "155mm gun M1A1 with M1A1 carriage and M5 limber," these famous artillery pieces, alongside their related 8-inch howitzer M1 versions, formed the backbone of U.S. Army heavy field artillery units during both World War II and Korea. These towed artillery weapons initially used the Mack NO 7-1/2-ton 6x6 as a prime mover, which was also augmented by the M4 high-speed tractor during the later stages of World War II. Eventually Long Toms were upgraded to the M125 10-ton 6x6 prime mover and proved to be remarkably mobile for towed heavy artillery. With their superior combinations of long range, pin-point accuracy, and massive firepower, these remarkable WWII artillery pieces served well into the Cold War-era. Featuring 227 archival photos, this new 80-page book documents the development and combat deployments of these iconic WWII weapons, as well as their essential caissons and heavy prime movers.--

Author: Christian Remington
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781465344823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Jochen Vollert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Thomas L. Jentz
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Over 20 years of research went into the creation of this history of the development, characteristics, and capabilities of the Panther.