Название: Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor
Автор: John Burton
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2006
Страниц: 369
Формат: pdf
Размер: 15.3 MB
Язык: английский

While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia. From Wake Island to Burma, the Empire of Japan opened the largest front in the history of warfare: an aircraft-driven invasion of colonial possessions throughout the Far East that crumbled the entire Western imperial legacy of the nineteenth-century.

Название: 7.2-Inch Multiple Rocket Launcher M17
Издательство: United States. War Department
Год: 1945
Страниц: 63
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11,66 MB
Язык: английский

This Technical Manual is published for the information and guidance of personnel concerned with the operation and care of the 7.2-inch Multiple Rocket Launcher M17. It also contains information required to identify and handle the rockets used with this launcher and, in addition, information for the installation of the launcher, which must be performed by ordnance personnel.

Название: On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War
Автор: Vincent O'Hara, W. David Dickson
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2014
Страниц: 352
Формат: pdf
Размер: 12,7 MB
Язык: английский

An international team of naval historians and scholars has pooled their expertise for this definitive reference on how the great navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union.

Название: El mar de Grau y la Marina de Guerra del Peru
Автор: Percy Cayo Cordova, Raul Palacios Rodriguez, Rene Moster
Издательство: Marina de Guerra del Peru; Delroisse
Год: 1979
Страниц: 161
Формат: pdf
Размер: 31.01 MB
Язык: английский, испанский

El mar de Grau y la Marina de Guerra del Peru.

Название: Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich
Автор: Stephen G. Fritz
Издательство: The University Press of Kentucky
Год: 2004
Страниц: 416
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11.15 MB
Язык: английский

At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower turned US forces toward the Franconian region of Germany, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units before they could escape into the Alps. Opposing this advance were German forces headed by SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon, a committed National Socialist who advocated merciless resistance. Caught in the middle were the people of Franconia.

Название: Pershing's Lieutenants: American Military Leadership in World War I
Автор: David T. Zabecki
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472838637
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Размер: 5,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Pershing's Lieutenants details the history of the key leaders working for and with the American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General John J. Pershing, several of whom went on to become important figures in World War II.

Название: The Underwater War: Submarines 1914-1918
Автор: Edwyn Gray
Издательство: Charles Scribner's Sons
Год: 1972
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 276
Размер: 36,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

When, in 1620, the Dutchman Cornelis Drebbel sailed up the Thames in the world's first submarine and 'calmly dived under the water while he kept the King and several thousand Londoners in the greatest suspense', no one in the watching crowd could have foreseen where his invention would lead.

Название: Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Автор: Joe Pappalardo
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250264235
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 22,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.

Название: Japan Triumphant: The Far East Campaign 1941-1942 (Images of War)
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 192
Размер: 127 Mb
Язык: English

Japan Triumphant: The Far East Campaign 1941-1942

Название: S-3 Viking in Action (Squadron Signal 10230)
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 90
Размер: 62 Mb
Язык: English

S-3 Viking in Action (Squadron Signal 10230)