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Pub. Date
[2011], c2003
Language
English
Description
By the mid-1960s the U.S. Air Force had built itself into a nuclear monolith, capable of delivering doomsday weapons with hordes of missiles and huge bombers - exactly the wrong tools for military and political morass that was the rapidly expanding war in Vietnam. By the end of the war, restraints were lifted from the Air Force, allowing it to advance technologically and become one of the mightiest military forces in the world. From the Cold War to...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Shot Down is a compelling story of our B-17 aircrews that flew, fought, and died over Europe to save a continent from tyranny and oppression. There were over 56,000 downed airmen in World War II. Lt. Howard Snyder and the crew of the Susan Ruth were one of those crews that went down over Europe... --General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, retired, 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force." -- back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Titled after the wartime nickname for the part of North Korea that was the epicentre of a bitter struggle for air superiority over the Korean Peninsula, MiG Alley offers an in-depth analysis of the US Air Force's war in Korea, packed with interesting and exciting personal stories based on first-person testimony from both American and Soviet sources. Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy...
6) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, President Harry Truman is forced to confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. This is the story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow, leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Brings you into the cockpit of the lethal, fast-paced world of fighter pilots...Fascinating." -- Sara Vladic "Extraordinary...A must-read." -- US Navy Captain Dan Pedersen "A heart-pounding narrative of the courage, sacrifice, and tragedy of America's elite fighter pilots." -- James M. Scott "Vivid and gripping...Confirms Bruning's status as the premier war historian of the air." -- Saul David The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens,...
Pub. Date
[2013], c1967
Language
English
Description
Experience America's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States. This propaganda film was released by the U.S. Information Agency and focuses on American involvement in the Vietnam War. This historical recording may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war... In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Tomahawk Warriors, a crew of nine who perished in a 1944 B-17 Flying Fortress crash in England, was a mystery of WWII until explained in this book. It would have lain in partial obscurity if it were not for the author's initial involuntary involvement. As a child, he witnessed what would become a dogged determination in his lifetime later to tell this story. By securing the Secret Declassified Operational Records, he resolved several mysteries...
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