Author: Don Blanding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Pilot Bails Out
Author: Don Blanding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Pilot's Information File
Author: United States. Army Air Forces War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Bailout Over Normandy
Author: Ted Fahrenwald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A suspenseful WWII page-turner and an enormously witty tale of camaraderie and collusion, Ted Fahrenwald's memoir takes you behind the scenes to offer unique insights into the daily courage and intrigues of the French Resistance and various Allies as they battled the vicious German occupiers-and suffered the violent retribution that was often the result. At 22, Ted was a daredevil pilot on his 100th mission when he bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day. Parachuting into the Nazi-infested farmland of Normandy, he was immediately picked up by the Maquis, the rural guerrilla arm of the Resistance. His wily and gregarious personality, high-school French, and backwoods skills helped him forge deep and lifelong friendships with these heroic patriots. Ted joined them on their night-time raids and relished their frequent parties fueled by home-brewed Calvados brandy. But he was determined to rejoin his squadron in England, so he left his helpers to hike north through heavily occupied forests toward the Channel Coast and the advancing Allied liberation armies. Captured by the Wehrmacht, interrogated as a spy, and interned in a POW camp, he made a daring escape just before his scheduled deportation to Germany. Being drafted by the unruly Maquis and captured by the German army didn't diminish Ted's talent for spotting the ironic humor in even the most aggravating situations-nor his penchant for extracting his own improvised and sometimes hilarious version of justice.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A suspenseful WWII page-turner and an enormously witty tale of camaraderie and collusion, Ted Fahrenwald's memoir takes you behind the scenes to offer unique insights into the daily courage and intrigues of the French Resistance and various Allies as they battled the vicious German occupiers-and suffered the violent retribution that was often the result. At 22, Ted was a daredevil pilot on his 100th mission when he bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day. Parachuting into the Nazi-infested farmland of Normandy, he was immediately picked up by the Maquis, the rural guerrilla arm of the Resistance. His wily and gregarious personality, high-school French, and backwoods skills helped him forge deep and lifelong friendships with these heroic patriots. Ted joined them on their night-time raids and relished their frequent parties fueled by home-brewed Calvados brandy. But he was determined to rejoin his squadron in England, so he left his helpers to hike north through heavily occupied forests toward the Channel Coast and the advancing Allied liberation armies. Captured by the Wehrmacht, interrogated as a spy, and interned in a POW camp, he made a daring escape just before his scheduled deportation to Germany. Being drafted by the unruly Maquis and captured by the German army didn't diminish Ted's talent for spotting the ironic humor in even the most aggravating situations-nor his penchant for extracting his own improvised and sometimes hilarious version of justice.
The Light Airplane Pilot's Guide to Stall/spin Awareness
Author: Rich Stowell
Publisher: Rich Stowell, Master CFI-A
ISBN: 9781879425439
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher: Rich Stowell, Master CFI-A
ISBN: 9781879425439
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Lightning Down
Author: Tom Clavin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250151279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser’s journey into hell began. Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can’t-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250151279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser’s journey into hell began. Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can’t-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival.
Pilots' and Flight Engineers' Training Manual for the Superfortress, B-29
Author: United States. Army Air Forces. Office of Flying Safety
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : B-29 (Bomber)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : B-29 (Bomber)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Flight Handbook, USAF Series C-47/C47A Aircraft , Navy Model R4D-1/R4D-5 Aircraft
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
B-36 Peacemaker Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
Author: Air Force
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0981652611
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
En instruktionsbog (Flight Manual) for B-36 Peacemaker.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0981652611
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
En instruktionsbog (Flight Manual) for B-36 Peacemaker.
Aircraft Armament
Author: Louis Bruchiss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Naval Aviation News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description