Flying Forts
Title | Flying Forts PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Caidin |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | |
Release | 1979-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780345283085 |
The history of the B-17, her prewar trials, the pilots who flew her and her action packed role in World War II
The B-17 - The Flying Forts
Title | The B-17 - The Flying Forts PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Caidin |
Publisher | ibooks |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 2010-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0743434706 |
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.
B-17 - THE FLYING FORTS
Title | B-17 - THE FLYING FORTS PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Caiden |
Publisher | iBooks |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 2011-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781596874732 |
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.
The B-17 Flying Fortress
Title | The B-17 Flying Fortress PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Jackson |
Publisher | Motorbooks International |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780760309339 |
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.
B-17 Combat Missions
Title | B-17 Combat Missions PDF eBook |
Author | Martin W. Bowman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | B-17 bomber |
ISBN | 9781853677540 |
The B-17 Flying Fortress is, along with the British Avro-Lancaster, the most famed heavy bomber of World War II. More than 12,000 B-17s were built and the planes were the mainstay of the Eighth Air Force's campaign of daylight precision-bombing raids on targets in Germany and the occupied territories. Unsurprisingly, given the B-17s pre-eminent role in the war, many books have been published on the aircraft and the men who flew in them. These fall into two categories. On one hand there are the largely text-only books recounting the experiences of the airmen who flew B-17 missions (most famously, Brian D. O'Neill's Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, and John Comer's Combat Crew); on the other are the many illustrated books that focus mainly on the plane's technical development and capabilities. Uniquely, B-17: Combat Missions combines the two approaches, describing in detail both the technical role of each crew-member, and following this up with extensive first-hand reports, many drawn from previously unpublished oral histories, showing what it was like to be, for example, a ball-turret gunner or a co-pilot. Equipment is described in detail, as is what it was like to use it. Throughout the book, the text is accompanied by newly commissioned and archive photos. In the introductory and final chapters, daily life is described for the airmen when not flying on missions. Photos of magazines, posters and other items of memorabilia evoke the atmosphere of the time, complementing the vivid picture drawn of the brave men of the US Eighth in action in the 'wide blue yonder'. AUTHOR: Martin Bowman is the author of eighty-six books on USAF/USN and RN/RAF operations. For many years he has been a frequent contributor of photographic and written articles to Flight International, Rolls-Royce Magazine, and Aeroplane Monthly. Major General Lewis E. Lyle (USAF Retd) led the 379th bomb group in World War II. SELLING POINTS: * The first fully illustrated book to combine operational and design information with first-hand accounts of combat missions * More than 200 photographs * Newly researched oral histories featured throughout
B-17 Flying Fortress
Title | B-17 Flying Fortress PDF eBook |
Author | H. P. Willmott |
Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1983-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780130567130 |
Describes America's most famous bomber in World War II, and explains how the plane influenced the outcome of the war and its role in the devastation of Germany by the Allies
Flying Forts
Title | Flying Forts PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Caidin |
Publisher | Bantam Books |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1990-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780553287806 |
The history of the B-17, its prewar trials, the pilots who flew it, and its action-packed role in World War II