P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO write by John Stanaway. This book was released on 1998-06-05. P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The P-38 made its combat debut in Europe in mid-1942, the first American fighters being flown to the UK before heading further east to Twelfth Air Force units in North Africa. Its service in this theatre, and later over the heartland of Germany itself, earned the P-38 the nickname 'der gabelschwanzer Teufel' (the 'fork-tailed' devil). This volume traces the careers of many previously unknown aces within the USAAF in Europe, and helps redress the balance which has in the past seen all the 'glory' for the fighter victories in this theatre shared between the pilots of the P-47 and P-51. Some 17 pilots scored 7 or more kills on the P-38 in the ETO/MTO.
P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group
P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group write by Steve Blake. This book was released on 2012-07-20. P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the 82nd Fighter Group was organized in March 1942, most of its initial pilot cadre was comprised of newly graduated staff sergeant pilots of Class 42-C – enlisted men! They learned to fly the P-38 at Muroc, in California's Mojave Desert, and then moved to the Los Angeles area to continue their training and to serve as part of its air defence. In September 1942 the group was transported to the East Coast, from where it shipped out to Ireland on the Queen Mary. By this time all its remaining sergeant pilots had been commissioned. As of VE-Day the 82nd Fighter Group's score of confirmed aerial victories stood at 548 aircraft shot down, plus a huge amount of enemy materiel – including aircraft – destroyed on the ground and the sea. It had been awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The cost of this success was high, however, for around 250 of the group's pilots had either been killed in action or captured.
P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI
P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI write by John Stanaway. This book was released on 1997-04-15. P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The P-38 was used on virtually every front to which the USAAF were committed, but enjoyed its greatest successes in the Pacific and China-Burma-India (CBI) theatres. The speed, range and firepower of the P-38 made it the favourite of nearly all aircrew fighting in the Solomons, New Guinea and the Philippines, and over 1800 Japanese aircraft fell to its guns. From the first encounters at the end of 1942 until the Lightning scored the final Fifth Air force victories in August 1945, these pilots made the Pacific skies very much their own battleground.
P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI
P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI write by Carl Molesworth. This book was released on 2012-10-20. P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book details the colourful experiences of the elite pilots of the AAF's Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces in the 'forgotten' China-Burma-India theatre during WW2. Inheriting the legacy of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), units such as the 23rd FG 'held the line' against overwhelming Japanese forces until the arrival of the first P-38s and P-51s in 1944. The Warhawk became synonymous with the efforts of the AAF in the CBI, being used by some 40 aces to claim five or more kills between 1942-45. This volume is the first of four covering the exploits with the P-40 during World War 2.
P-38 Lightning Aces 1942–43
P-38 Lightning Aces 1942–43 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Aces 1942–43 write by John Stanaway. This book was released on 2014-07-20. P-38 Lightning Aces 1942–43 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first P-38s became operational with the 1st Fighter Group in April 1941, and the initial combat deployments were made in Alaska, the Southwest Pacific and North Africa during the latter part of 1942. Photographic reconnaissance versions of the P-38 were in action even sooner when F-4 (P-38E) models were rushed to frontline units a few months after Pearl Harbor. Often using modified field measures to equip aircraft and train pilots in this demanding fighter, early pilots wrote a remarkable record of accomplishments that displayed a high degree of courage and innovation. Every theatre in which the United States was involved saw deployment of the P-38, and more than 60 Lightning pilots were credited with at least five victories by the end of 1943. Featuring illustrations depicting P-38 models from the E to the H-5 previously not known to the general public, unpublished photographs and new data, this volume presents a comprehensive and innovative account of some of these lesser known aces.
