Clash of Eagles: USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe in World War 2Making extensive use of the personal recollections of the participants involved, Bowman does an exceptional job of placing the reader at the scene, whether it's in the fuselage of a bomber at 20,000 feet, or ...
This is a true story that follows World War Two Hero Captain Edouard J. Jacques, a WWII Bombardier and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient, and his crew from childhood through thirty bombing missions over Germany with the 755th Squadron, 458 Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force from 1944 through...
Introduction by Bruce Bolinger For the last sixteen years I have been researching the aid given to downed Allied airmen by the Resistance during World War II in The Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Most of my research has concentrated on three subjects
This Army Air Force training film is the best look inside a World War 2 aerial gunnery school we have seen. Developed to be shown to trainees at the beginning of their course, its a thorough step by step preview of what to expect. Some of the many things you'll see: the role of th...
World War I: Lorraine; Champagne; Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; Oise-Aisne; St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. World War II: Air Combat, EAME Theater; Air Offensive, Europe; Algeria-French Morocco; Tunisia; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Anzio; Rome-Arno; Normandy; Northern France; Southern France; North Ap...
Tallboy bomb, the biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland, explodes underwater while being defused, in Swinoujscie, Poland, October 13, 2020 in this still image obtained from a video. Polish 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla/Poznan University of Technology/Handout via REUTE...
While I think of it, I subscribed to the “Air Force” magazine for you. Don’t send them to me or save them since I get it free. I took a final exam Sat. over 4 weeks work. It wasn’t so bad. John doramuir World War 2 Letters 1 Comment July 14, 2022 Supper and a show...
In that savage month of aerial warfare the Luftwaffe dealt the 8th AF bombers their worst mauling of the war, but also lost 22% of its pilots, a blow from which it never really recovered; the 56th flew a ramrod all the way to Berlin and back without meeting a single enemy fighter. ...
Actually, the information obtained in the two documents was accurate because at the end of World War II, Irv was briefly part of the 8th Infantry Division. Here’s why: when the war was over, the U.S. military in Europe needed to relocate more than 3 million service members, and get ...
The Crosley Pup CT-3 Truck, 1/4-ton 4x4, Extra Light: There were 37 CT-3s built by Crosley during World War Two. Serial Number 137 is at the Sam Werner Military Museum in Monteagle, TN. Serial number 133 is located at the National Museum of the 8th Air Force in Pooler, GA and ...