[PDF] The Mighty Eighth In Colour eBook

Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :

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Includes aircraft and crews from every U.S. Eighth Air Force base operational in Britain in WWII. The author is a leading historian.

Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780304357086

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A must-have classic. Mostly taken by members of “Mighty” Eighth Air Force, this wonderful selection portrays the American aircraft and their crews deployed to Britain in 1942. The daring and danger of those days comes across in a uniquely personal perspective, in photos of bases, aircraft in action and on the ground, nose art, and airfields and countryside from high above. Nearly 600 photos, arranged alphabetically by home base. “A brilliant gallery of memories.”—Hobby Merchandiser.

Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1998-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781854094735

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The splendor of the mighty Eighth Squadron's silver birds, and the legends who flew them, come alive on page upon spectacular page. Seventy-five luscious color paintings by talented British and American military artists, accompanied by the commentaries of the leading historian of American aviation, Roger Freeman, capture every aspect of pilot and plane: sleek dives, breathtaking bombing raids, and precious moments of rest. You'll see a fighter's view of a quaint French town marred by steel tanks marching down its streets, yet still flying the flag of its allies, and the return of the Memphis Belle -- that most famous of all Flying Fortress aircraft. And one image graphically captures a dramatic dash in which a desperate German airman deliberately slices into an American plane with his propeller. (The U.S. pilot bailed out safely.) Triumph and tragedy alike axe vividly captured for historians, veterans, and battle buffs to treasure for years to come. Selected by the Military Book Club.

Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781854095312

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The US 8th Air Force was based in the UK from 1942 onwards, spread exclusively across East Anglia and operating from over 40 locations. The remains of some of these sites can still be found and a few are still airfields. The 8th flew intensive bomber and fighter sorties over Europe. Over 2000 aircraft, mostly B-17s, B-26s and P-47s, involving 150,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high-altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual Allied success.

Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782008330

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The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.

Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher : Ihs Global Incorporated
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780710600387

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A day by day operational record of the United States 8th Air Force which was based in the United Kingdom during World War II.

Author : Jerry Scutts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782006753

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Unquestionably the best American fighter of World War 2, the North American P-51 Mustang served in large numbers with the USAAF's Eighth Air Force from late 1943 until VE Day, and was the mount of most aces in-theatre. Charged with the responsibility of escorting huge formations of B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers on daylight raids deep into Germany, the P-51 pilots of the various fighter groups within the 'Mighty Eighth' went head to head with the cream of the Luftwaffe's fighter squadrons for control of the skies over the Third Reich. Aircraft of the Aces 1, 19 and 24 are also available in a single volume as 'Aces of the Mighty Eighth'.

Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1472800524

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The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.

Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780304358465

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Putting into the air the largest striking force ever committed to battle was a highly complex task and remains one of the great achievements of the war. With more than three hundred photographs and dozens of line drawings, this book relates the procedures and the improvisations that lay behind the success of this mighty air force. Over 1,700 aircraft at a time, involving 15,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual allied success.