However, we’re talking about World War II aviation here, and in that vein, there was another quartet of standout players, whose performance and versatility were so far above their contemporaries that it demands to be called out. Those aircraft were the American Martin B-26 Mar...
American Bomber Aircraft Development in World War II. By Bill Norton. Manchester UK: Crecy, 2012. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Pp. 224. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-85780-330-2 This book ...
Second World War,World War 2 Bataan,Corregidor- the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945 Battle of Britain- the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the...
As Arthur Herman wrote in his book Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, U.S. businesses at the time were still “geared around producing tanks and planes, not clapboard houses and refrigerators.” Some economists even predicted a new crisis of mass ...
Conclusion These, then, are my choices as the greatest bombers of World War II. Fourteen aircraft from five nations that were not only widely produced and employed, but which also had a significant impact on the course of the war.
World War II exposed a glaring paradox within the United States Armed Forces. Although more than 1 million African Americans served in the war to defeat Nazism and fascism, they did so in segregated units. The same discriminatoryJim Crowpolicies that were rampant in American society were reinforce...
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When Studs Terkel titled his 1984 oral history of the American experience in World War Two The Good War, he meant it ironically. Terkel’s book is full of accounts of G. I.s and civilians who could still, decades afterward, think of themselves as casualties. Thanks, however, to Tom Brok...
above him the pilot, and behind the pilot to his right the flight engineer. Unlike American heavy bombers, the Lancaster and Halifax had only a single pilot, with a fold-down seat for the flight engineer to help the pilot on takeoff or in case of emergency. Australian War Memorial photo ...
The Battle of Midway in early June 1942 marked the turning point of World War II in the Pacific as American aircraft sank four Japanese carriers.