Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 (Osprey Combat Aircraft 13)The third volume in the trilogy of Combat Aircraft titles devoted to de Havilland's 'wooden wonder', this book focuses on the Mosquito photo-recce variants, and their users. The design's superb performance, and ...
World War II Military Aircraft is a mini encyclopedia of the most important and influential aircraft that were used during the Second World War. This pocket com…
A legend in its own right, the Ilyushin-2 Shturmovik is the number one anti-tank aircraft in the world, having destroyed more enemy tanks than any other aircraft during the war. It also holds the record as the most produced aircraft, with over 36,000 units built during the war. It was...
During the turn of the nineteenth century, Italy was at the forefront of aerial warfare after having first used aircraft in a combat reconnaissance role on October 23rd 1911. This was followed shortly by the first aerial bombing in history on November 1st the same year. Italy was also among ...
WEDNESDAY, 13 JANUARY 1943ZI - ZONE OF INTERIOR (11AF): In the Aleutians, three bombers and four fighters are in the air. The weather reconnaissance aircraft returns west of Kiska due to high winds.Constantine Harbor is patrolled until weather forces aircraft to return....
The first plan to use parachute forces by American units was developed during World War I. On 17 October 1918, Brigadier General William P. (Billy) Mitchell, a later proponent of strategic aerial bombing, conceived the idea of dropping an American division by parachute from bomber aircraft into...
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War is an awful miserable thing. I wish it had never started. Even as I write this letter in a fox hole, shells and bullets are whizzing all around. Some of the shells are falling pretty close. If I ever come home, I’ll never want to talk about some of the things I’ve seen ...
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morale. While the struggle for western Crete was raging, German reconnaissance planes reported that a few British planes had returned to Iraclion airfield on May 23, and that reinforcements were arriving by sea in the eastern part of the island....