Flying Forts

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 0743434706
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The B-17 - The Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no such thunder in history -- nor ever will be again -- as the deep-throated roar of the mighty, four-engined B-17s that streamed across the skies in World War II. The long runways are silent now, the men and planes are gone. But out of the massive files of records available, and the memories of the men who flew, Martin Caidin has assembled this dramatic portrait of America's most formidable heavy bomber of the war. The B-17: The Flying Forts recreates a vanished era and a great and gallant plane -- a plane that could absorb three thousand enemy bullets, fly with no rudder, and complete its mission on two engines. A plane that American pilots flew at Pearl Harbor, Tunis, Midway, Palermo, Schweinfurt, Regensberg, Normandy, and Berlin, in thousands of missions and through hundreds of thousands of miles of flak-filled skies. A plane that proved itself in every combat theater as the greatest heavy bomber of World War II.

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345283085
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1979-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the B-17, her prewar trials, the pilots who flew her and her action packed role in World War II

Author : Martin Caiden
Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 : 9781596874732
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B-17 - THE FLYING FORTS written by Martin Caiden and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no such thunder in history -- nor ever will be again -- as the deep-throated roar of the mighty, four-engined B-17s that streamed across the skies in World War II. The long runways are silent now, the men and planes are gone. But out of the massive files of records available, and the memories of the men who flew, Martin Caidin has assembled this dramatic portrait of America's most formidable heavy bomber of the war. The B-17: The Flying Forts recreates a vanished era and a great and gallant plane -- a plane that could absorb three thousand enemy bullets, fly with no rudder, and complete its mission on two engines. A plane that American pilots flew at Pearl Harbor, Tunis, Midway, Palermo, Schweinfurt, Regensberg, Normandy, and Berlin, in thousands of missions and through hundreds of thousands of miles of flak-filled skies. A plane that proved itself in every combat theater as the greatest heavy bomber of World War II.

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553287806
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the B-17, its prewar trials, the pilots who flew it, and its action-packed role in World War II

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780760309339
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The B-17 Flying Fortress written by Robert Jackson and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete development and service histories of all variants from 1934 to 1945. Archival photos, line drawings, and color profile plates. Identifies the famed units that flew the bomber over Europe and the Pacific.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick A. Johnsen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress written by Frederick A. Johnsen and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 pioneered the concepts of strategic bombardment. This work gives technical detail along with little-known facts and stories, as well as accounts of missions, production, avionics, development and the people behind the development of the B-17.

Author : Thurman Shuller
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875657842
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight Surgeon written by Thurman Shuller and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Thurman Shuller’s war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O’clock High was based on Shuller during his time as Group Surgeon of the famed 306th Bomb Group at Thurleigh, England, where he struggled with finding medical solutions for high altitude frostbite, oxygen deprivation, combat fatigue, and a growing crisis of hopelessness among the air crews. Shuller campaigned for setting the maximum number of missions for air crews to fly in a combat tour and argued for the elimination of "Maximum Effort" missions that forced them back to base from furloughs and passes. Shuller’s diary brings his wartime experience back to life. His descriptions of the journey across the North Atlantic in the nose of a B-17 Flying Fortress are vivid and personal. His accounts about life among the British during the war bring a fresh look at the air war as it emerged from the pleasant meadowlands of East Anglia. Royalties for the book are being donated to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force (www.mightyeighth.org).

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Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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