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Phantom in Combat puts you in the cockpit with the missile-age aces
as they fight for their lives in the skies of Vietnam and the
Middle East.\nStarting with a brief account of the forging of this
deadly weapon, Phantom in Combat moves to the wars, campaigns and
single engagements in which it was used to such telling effect.
Leading USAF ace Steve Ritchie speaks more in sorrow than anger of
the politically inspired rules that so frustrated him and his
comrades in Vietnam. The story of the gruelling dogfight that made
Randy Cunningham and Willie Driscoll the U.S. Navys only aces is
redolent of the sweat, toil and terror of high-speed air fighting.
And combat reports from some of Israels anonymous aces speak
laconically of victories, losses, hairs-breadth escapes, and, above
all, the Phantoms ability to give and take enormous
punishment.\nProviding a rich background to this testimony is a
wealth of rare material, including:\n- Battle-damage and gun-camera
photographs\n- Recently declassified U.S. Navy tactical diagrams\n-
Photo-sequence showing the destruction of an F-4 by a North
Vietnamese missile.\n- Official analysis of the USAFs most
successful MiG-trapping operation, led by the famous General Robin
Olds.\n- Complete listing of USAF and USN air-to-air victories in
Vietnam.\nHere is the human face of modern air warfare, described
by the commanders and crews who earned for the Phantom its
reputation as the worlds finest fighting aircraft.
Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the Future tells the dramatic story
of the Me 262\s combat career as a fascinating chain of events in
which planning, luck, and even blind stupidity played important
roles. Even by today\s engineering standards, magnificent is the
only word to describe the effort to bring the plane\s jet engines,
which eclipsed the performance of all contemporary aircraft, from
the laboratory to production in an amazingly short time.\nArrow to
the Futrue also tells the story of the people who flew the Me262 in
combat. Their complete accounts bring their missions to life and
set the plane in the historical context of the war. The German
narratives are complemented by the accounts of Americans who flew
against the Me 262 - for instance, the team of crack USAAF pilots
known as "Watsons\s Whizzers," who literally stole a fleet of jet
aircraft from German airfields at the end of the war.\nAlso
described are the postwar efforts to test and preserve the Me 262.
Included is a description of the efforts to obtain one of these
aircraft for display at the National Air and Space Museum, and the
painstaking efforts by the team at the Smithsonian\s Paul E. Garber
Facility for Preservation, Restoration, and Storage to restore the
Me 262 to its pristine condition.\nThis new reprint edition is
lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including
operational photos from World War II, color views of the cockpit,
and interior and exterior shots of the restored Me 262. In addition
to the striking photographs, there are expert technical drawings,
cutaway illustrations, and equipment and conversion tables.
\nWalter J. Boyne is the author of many books including The
Smithsonian Book of Flight, The Leading Edge, Boeing B-52: A
Documentary History and Phantom in Combat, as well as the novels
The Wild Blue, Trophy for Eagles and Air Force Eagles.
Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the
West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and
aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the
10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots
flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist
adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until
the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were
finally opened. Packed with first-hand accounts and covering the
full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, MiG Alley brings
the war vividly to life and the record is finally set straight on a
number of popular fabrications. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly
threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete
story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.
From various wars spanning two centuries to examinations of how our
country's modern armed forces are coping with new threats that are
more dangerous than anything they've faced before, these articles
represent the best of the best; incisive, thoughtful, and probing
opinions and information, written by the people who have lived and
breathed the various topics and civilians who have made it a
lifelong endeavor to study our nation's military. Contributors
include New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, former
Army War College professor and author Martin Blumenson, Gulf War
veteran and chief of military history at the Center of Military
History Brigadier General John S. Brown, and Commander Stephen
Flynn of the US Coast Guard, the nation's leading expert on port
and container security. Article subjects in this volume include:
*Smart weapons and hi-tech wars to come
*The role of United States Army Chaplains tending to German War
Criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.
*A chillingly logical hypothesis that could be the next step in
terrorism--mating cruise missiles with biological warfare.
*And much more
It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her nuclear arsenal and set two superpowers on a treacherous course of nuclear escalation.
And a war that eventually brought peace. But a peace fraught with delicate tensions, disputed borders, and a legacy of further bloodshed.
The Two O'Clock War is a spellbinding chronicle of the international chess game that was played out in October 1973. It is a story of diplomacy and military might that accounts for many of the dilemmas faced in the present-day Middle East.
This is a war that Israel never thought was possible. Surprised by the fury and excellent execution of the Arab onslaught, and perhaps more than a little complacent, Israel suddenly found itself on the point of losing a war because of a lack of ammunition, planes and tanks. The United States, after much vacillation, finally elected to help Israel, beginning a tremendous airlift (code name: Operation Nickel Grass) which incurred the wrath of the Arab states, and their sponsor, the Soviet Union.
Fortunately the airlift came just in time for Israeli ground forces to stabilize their positions and eventually turn the tide in the Sinai and Golan Heights. And it was all made possible by an operation that dwarfed the Berlin Airlift and the Soviets' simultaneous efforts in Egypt and Syria.
The Two O'Clock War is bound to become the definitive history of a war that quite literally approached Armageddon.
From the most important leaders and the most courageous victories
to the earliest machines of flight and the most advanced Stealth
technology, this book presents a fascinating look at 50 turbulent
years of Air Force history. Three 8-page photo inserts, one in
color.
In an overview of naval campaigns from 1939 to 1945, a military
historian and author of Clash of Wings explains how sea power
changed the course of World War II. From the Atlantic to the
Pacific to the North Sea and the Mediterranean, Walter Boyne weaves
together dramatic battle scenes with skillful analyses of
strategies and tactics to present a wide-ranging look at all of the
naval forces operating in every theater of the Second World War.
In depth descriptions and photographs of the aircraft of 21 nations
presented with a unique human dimension that goes behind the
machines to the people involved. Invaluable for specialists,
accessible to enthusiasts, International Warbirds: An Illustrated
Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914–2000 puts the most
legendary fighter aircraft of the 20th century developed outside
the United States on vivid display. It offers 336 illustrated
"biographies" of the most significant warplanes used in squadron
service from World War I to the Balkan conflict, including numerous
models from Great Britain, France, Russia, and Japan, as well as
notable machines from Israel, Canada, China, India, Brazil, and
other nations. Entries span the history and scope of military
aircraft from bombers and fighters to transports, trainers,
reconnaissance craft, sea planes, and helicopters, with each
capsule history combining nuts-and-bolts technical data with the
story of that model's evolution and use. Together, these portraits
offer an exciting, well-researched tribute to visionary designers
and builders as well as courageous pilots and crews across the
globe, and tell a vivid tale of how air power became such a
decisive factor in modern warfare.
Shattering long-held myths and misunderstandings, author Brayton Harris traces the development of the submarine through an era in which writers of fiction saw the merits better than most professionals-until the Germans almost won World War I. He covers the professional and political arrogance that delayed antisubmarine development for so long that German submarines almost won World War II as well, and examines post-war progress toward the truly awesome submarine of today.
Along the way, Harris explores the shifting moral issues of "unrestricted" naval warfare, outlines the hundred-year search for an effective underwater power plant that culminated in the nuclear reactor, and raises important questions about the future. A fascinating exploration of the steps and stumbles during development, a rousing tribute to those who fought and died, and a powerful study of the submarine's impact on America, The Navy Times Book of Submarines is an unparalleled source for understanding the great "hunters of the deep.
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