5th Airforce

Author : Gerard Paloque
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782352501374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 5th Airforce written by Gerard Paloque and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 5th US Army Air Force was officially created on 5 February 1942 in the urgency following the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. At the outset, with limited means and equipped with obsolete materiel, its various units were tasked with defending Australia.

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Randy Baumgardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563113468
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifth Air Force written by Randy Baumgardner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting history of the WWII Pacific Air War fought by the Fifth Air Force, includes the V Bomber and V Fighter Commands; the 3rd, 7th, 19th, 22nd, 38th, 43rd, 90th, 312th, 345th, 380th, and 417th Bomb Groups; 8th, 27th, 35th, and 49th Fighter Groups, the 69th Tactical Fighter Squadron; 6th and 71st Reconnaissance Groups, and the 317th Troop Carrier Group. Hundreds of never-before-published war photos, index, association history and roster, biographies and photos of veterans.

Author : Walter Dumaux Edmonds
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915419
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942 written by Walter Dumaux Edmonds and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1951 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James P. Gallagher
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868498
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With the Fifth Army Air Force written by James P. Gallagher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing a personal side of World War II, this collection is an absorbing and highly personal photographic record of America's war in the Pacific. 250 duotones. 6 maps.

Author : Robert Stava
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764327773
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combat Recon written by Robert Stava and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From shipping strikes, to strafing runs on airfields, step back in time and into the violent days of World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based on Fifth Air Force photographer John Stava's collection, and undiscovered until the mid-1990s, captured here is a broad scope of the war in the Southwest Pacific, from mundane and ordinary moments to white-knuckle combat rides. Follow he and his 5th AF colleagues as they traverse the war from the turning point days of early 1943 in New Guinea with the 5th Air Force Advon Lab, to serving in the 17th Recon Bomber Group as a tail gunner in the liberation of the Philippines by spring of 1945.

Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Air Force in the War Against Japan written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Dooley
Publisher : PiKen Production
ISBN 13 : 0578165422
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relentless Pursuit written by Ken Dooley and published by PiKen Production. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, the United States was pathetically unprepared for war. The battle fleet intended to keep the Pacific Ocean an American lake lay in smoking ruins at Pearl Harbor. Ironically, the devastating Japanese surprise attack revealed the path to victory: above the sea, not on it. At the time, U.S. air power was inferior even to our now-crippled sea power. Somehow thousands of men, many of them too young to vote, were selected and trained to defeat an enemy who flew faster, more maneuverable airplanes. They fought under General George C. Kenney who commanded “The Forgotten Fifth Air Force,” a name resulting from the priority assigned to the war in Europe. Even today, books focusing on the European war far outnumber those devoted to the Pacific war. This book is about one group of men, the 39th Fighter Squadron of the Fifth Air Force. Rushed through training and flying planes greatly inferior to those flown by experienced Japanese pilots, they held their own with raw courage, determination and unflinching patriotism. As they received better airplanes, they pushed the Japanese back, but always at terrible cost. It took great courage to climb into those cockpits. Pilots lost over the sea and jungles were rarely found. Those captured by the Japanese were routinely tortured and beheaded. The war ended, but searing questions remained. Would justice ever be served for those pilots executed by the enemy? Until now that question was never fully addressed. With this book we explore the air war, crimes, investigations and punishments.

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combat Squadrons of the Air Force; World War II. written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of squadron histories has been prepared by the USAF Historical Division to complement the Division's book, Air Force Combat Units of World War II. The 1,226 units covered by this volume are the combat (tactical) squadrons that were active between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945. Each squadron is traced from its beginning through 5 March 1963, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the 1st Aero (later Bombardment) Squadron, the first Army unit to be equipped with aircraft for tactical operations. For each squadron there is a statement of the official lineage and data on the unit's assignments, stations, aircraft and missiles, operations, service streamers, campaign participation, decorations, and emblem.