Author: A.R. Kingsford
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A.R. Kingsford flew with 100 Squadron, the unit that dropped the first bomb at night on Germany and, on November 11, 1918, the last one. One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squadron at Lincoln, where he flew against Zeppelins which had been sent from across the North Sea on night bombing raids. Kingsford joined 100 Squadron in France early in 1918. He had an active career with this famous squadron up until the end of the war. Full of incident and adventure, Night Raiders of the Air is a first-person account by this young Commonwealth volunteer on his experiences during the war against Germany.
Night Raiders of the Air
Author: A.R. Kingsford
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A.R. Kingsford flew with 100 Squadron, the unit that dropped the first bomb at night on Germany and, on November 11, 1918, the last one. One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squadron at Lincoln, where he flew against Zeppelins which had been sent from across the North Sea on night bombing raids. Kingsford joined 100 Squadron in France early in 1918. He had an active career with this famous squadron up until the end of the war. Full of incident and adventure, Night Raiders of the Air is a first-person account by this young Commonwealth volunteer on his experiences during the war against Germany.
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A.R. Kingsford flew with 100 Squadron, the unit that dropped the first bomb at night on Germany and, on November 11, 1918, the last one. One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squadron at Lincoln, where he flew against Zeppelins which had been sent from across the North Sea on night bombing raids. Kingsford joined 100 Squadron in France early in 1918. He had an active career with this famous squadron up until the end of the war. Full of incident and adventure, Night Raiders of the Air is a first-person account by this young Commonwealth volunteer on his experiences during the war against Germany.
Night Raiders of the Air
Author: Alfred Reginald Kingsford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Night Raiders of the Air. Being the Experinces of a Night Flying Pilot, Etc
Author: A. R. KINGSFORD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Night Raiders of the Air
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Beskriver piloters oplevelser under 1. verdenskrig.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Beskriver piloters oplevelser under 1. verdenskrig.
Night Raiders of the Air ; Being the Experiences of a Night Flying Pilot
Author: A. R. Kingsford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Night Riders
Author: Henry Cleveland Wood
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The author has masterfully crafted a captivating historical fiction with a vivid depiction of the current Tobacco Crisis in Kentucky, where tensions run high and people band together as 'The Night Riders' to fight against what they believe is an unjust tax imposed by the Toll Gate System. The story follows the characters as they engage in heated protests, mirroring the current struggles of the tobacco-growing community. With fast-paced, real-life events and compelling characters, the reader will be on the edge of their seat as the drama unfolds.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The author has masterfully crafted a captivating historical fiction with a vivid depiction of the current Tobacco Crisis in Kentucky, where tensions run high and people band together as 'The Night Riders' to fight against what they believe is an unjust tax imposed by the Toll Gate System. The story follows the characters as they engage in heated protests, mirroring the current struggles of the tobacco-growing community. With fast-paced, real-life events and compelling characters, the reader will be on the edge of their seat as the drama unfolds.
The Night Riders
Author: Henry Cleveland Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Review of Current Military Literature
Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Night Fighter
Author: H. E. Bates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526721020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
It is no surprise that the Air Ministry chose an author of H.E. Bates' talents to portray the battle over the night skies of Britain whilst the war against Germany was still to reach its conclusion. For his rich prose excites and inspires as much as it informs. Bates opens his stirring story by analyzing the comparative efforts of the RAF and the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the decision by the Germans to turn to attacking British towns and cities, first during daytime, then, as losses mounted, at night. At first, the RAF's night fighters achieved only limited success, with the ground stations and the pilots unable to track down the intruders in the dark. But that was soon to change. The volunteers of the Royal Observer Corps became increasingly adept at identifying the movement of enemy planes by sound alone and to help the antiaircraft batteries defending London, lines of sound locators were established which measured the course and speed of the intruders to be measured, enabling the batteries to calculate the point and time that the enemy would cross the barrage line. It was a similar method of radiolocation that enabled the RAF's night fighters to hunt down the enemy bombers and to make the British night skies a deadly battleground for German machines. Whilst antiaircraft guns accounting for most of the enemy aircraft destroyed over Britain in the early months of the Blitz, as the war progressed the RAF's night fighters became increasingly effective as new technologies were adopted that enabled pilots to locate their enemies. H.E. Bates tells a tale of harrowing scenes of destruction in London, Coventry and across Britain delivered by an 'unseen' and seemingly unstoppable enemy, that gradually evolves into one of success and victory - and it is written with the consummate and concise prose of a master raconteur.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526721020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
It is no surprise that the Air Ministry chose an author of H.E. Bates' talents to portray the battle over the night skies of Britain whilst the war against Germany was still to reach its conclusion. For his rich prose excites and inspires as much as it informs. Bates opens his stirring story by analyzing the comparative efforts of the RAF and the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the decision by the Germans to turn to attacking British towns and cities, first during daytime, then, as losses mounted, at night. At first, the RAF's night fighters achieved only limited success, with the ground stations and the pilots unable to track down the intruders in the dark. But that was soon to change. The volunteers of the Royal Observer Corps became increasingly adept at identifying the movement of enemy planes by sound alone and to help the antiaircraft batteries defending London, lines of sound locators were established which measured the course and speed of the intruders to be measured, enabling the batteries to calculate the point and time that the enemy would cross the barrage line. It was a similar method of radiolocation that enabled the RAF's night fighters to hunt down the enemy bombers and to make the British night skies a deadly battleground for German machines. Whilst antiaircraft guns accounting for most of the enemy aircraft destroyed over Britain in the early months of the Blitz, as the war progressed the RAF's night fighters became increasingly effective as new technologies were adopted that enabled pilots to locate their enemies. H.E. Bates tells a tale of harrowing scenes of destruction in London, Coventry and across Britain delivered by an 'unseen' and seemingly unstoppable enemy, that gradually evolves into one of success and victory - and it is written with the consummate and concise prose of a master raconteur.
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description