Название: Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
Автор: Tom Clavin
Издательство: ‎St. Martin's Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 320
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 24.1 MB

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.

Название: Logistics: The Key to Victory
Автор: Jeremy Black
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military/Naval Institute Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 240
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

All commanders know that an army (or navy) cannot operate without supplies, yet most aspects of war studies emphasize strategy, tactics, weaponry, and command. Jeremy Black fills a gap in war studies with logistics as a huge subject at the center of all conflict, globally and historically. All are considered, including theoretical and practical factors of supply, from classical, ancient, early and medieval times, to modern eras of industrial warfare, especially with oil and steam, and scientific and technical advances-- even cyber warfare and smart weapons.

Название: Bomber Command Pilot: From the Battle of Britain to the Augsburg Raid: The Unique Story of Wing Commander J S Sherwood DSO, DFC*
Автор: Gerald Sherwood
Издательство: ‎Air World
Год: 2021
Страниц: 248
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 14.3 MB

John Sherwood was commissioned into the RAF as a pilot officer on leaving school in 1936. In mid-1940, he was posted to a frontline bomber squadron. He went on to undertake a full tour of thirty sorties against enemy targets during the summer of 1940, earning himself a Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in what has become known as the ‘Battle of the Barges’. Sherwood flew Manchesters on a further series of eventful bombing missions against the enemy, earning a Bar to the DFC in recognition of his determination and leadership. It was in the new Lancasters that Sherwood, by then a Squadron Leader, undertook his most daring mission. This was Operation Margin, the attack upon the M.A.N. diesel engine works at Augsburg in Bavaria on 17 April 1942. This involved a flight of some 600 miles in broad daylight with no fighter escort, flying at less than 250 feet in order to avoid enemy radar.

Название: Air Battle for Moscow 1941–1942
Автор: Dmitry Degtev, Dmitry Zubov
Издательство: Air World
Год: 2021
Страниц: 248
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 16.8 MB

In October 1941, Operation Typhoon and the battle for Moscow began. According to Hitler's plan, it was to be the ‘last offensive’, after which nothing could stop Germany from conquering Britain and the rest of Europe – but first he had to overcome the Soviets and especially their air force. Air Battle for Moscow is the first detailed description of one of the most vital, yet little known, air battles of the Second World War. The battle for Moscow opened with the flights of long-range reconnaissance aircraft, which photographed Moscow and the Kremlin. Then, on 22 July 1941, Operation Clara Zetkin, the Luftwaffe’s aerial assault on Moscow, began. But the Luftwaffe was opposed by the ‘Stalin's Falcons’, the elite 6th Air Defence Corps, which defended the Soviet capital with a determination which saw bitter duels to the death and horrendous casualties on both sides.

Название: From Lightnings to MiGs: A Cold War Pilot's Operations, Test Flying & an Airspeed Record
Автор: Squadron Leader Russ Peart
Издательство: Air World
Год: 2021
Страниц: 272
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 49.1 MB

It was supposed to be just a training flight. The two Soviet-manufactured MiG 21s, each with two practice bombs and four air-to-ground rockets, were lined up on the runway in Bangladesh at the height of the Cold War, when air traffic control suddenly reported an incursion by Indian Air Force Jaguars. Though ill-equipped for combat, the two MiGs were scrambled.

Название: Osprey Combat Aircraft 35 - Lancaster Squadrons 1944–45
Автор: Jon Lake
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 57,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The RAF's most successful heavy bomber of World War II (1939-1945), the Avro Lancaster formed the backbone of Bomber Command during the large-scale night bombing campaign against occupied Europe. Produced in massive numbers (over 7300 up to VE-Day), the first examples entered squadron service on Christmas Eve 1941, and tasted combat the following March.

Название: Osprey Combat Aircraft 34 - PV Ventura/Harpoon Units of World War 2
Автор: Alan C. Carey
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 40,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Osprey's examination of the PV Ventura/Harpoon Units and of their participation in World War II (1939-1945). A development of the successful Lockheed 'medium twins' of the late 1930s, the PV Ventura/Harpoon family of patrol bombers saw widespread service with both the US Navy/Marine Corps and the TAF and Commonwealth from October 1942 onwards.

Название: Разведчики
Автор: Томан Н.
Издательство: Издательство Детской литературы
Год: 1952
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 322
Размер: 23,1 Мб
Язык: русский

В сборник рассказов советского писателя Николая Томана вошли: "На прифронтовой станции", "Что происходит в тишине", "Взрыв произойдет сегодня" и "Секрет "королевского тигра".

Название: Битва на Калке 31 мая 1223 г.
Автор: Голыженков И.
Цикл/серия: Великие сражения Русской истории
Издательство: Изограф
Год выпуска: 1994
ISBN: 5-87113-010-0
Страниц: 49
Формат: pdf
Размер: 12,2 Mb
Язык: Русский

Иллюстрированный рассказ о жестоком побоище. На реке Калке (возможно, Калец или Кальчик, впадающий в Азовское море) русское войско сошлось с доселе невиданным противником, о котором в летописи сказано: «Никто точно не знает, кто они, и откуда появились и каков их язык и какого они племени».

Название: Air Forces Monthly Special - US Nany Airpower
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Key Publishing
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 100
Размер: 100,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Wherever there has been trouble in the world, from the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ to face-offs against rogue nations seeking nuclear ambitions, the carriers of the US Navy have never been far off the coast, or far from the headlines. US Navy Airpower is a 100-page special dedicated to the US Navy’s air operations from around the world.