Curtis LeMay:Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Airpower in World War II
- Erstausgabe 2007, ISBN: 9781594160394
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
NY: US Army Education and Information Division, 1945. Front cover: "Freeman of London and friend": When General Dwight Eisenhower rode from Temple Bar to Guildhall where he was … Mehr…
NY: US Army Education and Information Division, 1945. Front cover: "Freeman of London and friend": When General Dwight Eisenhower rode from Temple Bar to Guildhall where he was made a Freeman of London, Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder was with Ike as the carriage passed the British crowds; Slightly cover and edge-worn.; Feature stories include: Pacific Combat by Pfc. Justin Gray; First Election in Ten Years by Sgt. James Dugan; W.I.V.E.S. by Cpl. Hyman Goldberg; You Americans by Sgt. Barrett McGurn; Ike Goes Cockney by Sgt. James Dugan; Sports; The Fight Game's Future by Cpl. Tom Shehan: Yanks in the ETO: News from home, Mail Call; 24p., including back cover.. British Edition. Illustrated, Stapled Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Photos; Drawings. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. News Magazine., US Army Education and Information Division, 1945, 3, (London), Cassell & Co., (2001).. First Edition; 4to; pp. 233; illustrated endpapers, numerous b/w illustrations, maps, appendices, references, bibliography, index; stiff illustrated wrapper, a fine copy., (London), Cassell & Co., (2001)., 0, Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. Very good. Cover has some sticker residue.. 24 p. Maps (color). Illustrations. U.S. Army Center of Military History Publication, 72-3. This is one of the series of works that commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the United States Army in the Second World War. This work focuses on the US Army's disastrous campaign in the Philippines, 1941-2. The fate of the defenders was sealed when the Japanese crippled the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 & destroyed US air assets in the Philippines a few hours later. This left the defenders of the islands isolated in the heart of a Japanes dominated Pacific with little chance of resupply or reinforcement., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1992, 3, London : Ebury , 2007. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical decription; 661 pages. Physical description; ix, 661 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Germany's Hitler -- Japan's militarism -- Appeasement and Phoney war -- Battle of the Atlantic 1939-40 -- Fall of France and Dunkirk -- Winston Churchill -- Battle of Britain and the Blitz -- North Africa and the Balkans -- Battle of the Atlantic 1940-41 -- Barbarossa -- Pearl Harbor -- Fall of Malaya and retreat from Burma -- Battle of the Atlantic 1942-43 -- Battle of the Pacific 1942-43 -- Victory in North Africa -- Stalingrad and the Eastern Front -- Strategic bombing: Royal Air Force -- The Holocaust -- Casablanca and Tehran -- Anglo-American relations -- Economic and scientific warfare -- Home front -- Occupation and resistance -- Strategic bombing: US Army Air Force -- The Italian campaign -- D-Day in Normandy -- Battle of the Pacific 1944-45 -- Return to Burma -- Western Europe -- Yalta and Poland -- Fall of Berlin -- Enduring the unendurable -- Settling accounts -- Falling out: views in 1970-72 -- Reflections. Subjects; World War II, (1939-1945). World War II, (1939-1945) ; Personal narratives. Genres; Biography. Illustrated. Nonfiction. Personal narratives. Television programs., London : Ebury, 2007, 0, Paperback / softback. New. The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. "AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL." At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history, as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii. In a little over two hours, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, propelling the U.S.'s entry into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the epic true story of the high-stakes operation undertaken sixteen months later to avenge that deadly strike - a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S. base on Guadalcanal. Expertly crafting this "hunt for Bin Laden"-style WWII story, New York Times bestselling author Dick Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the climactic clash in the South Pacific skies - frontline moments loaded with xenophobia, spycraft, sacrifice and broken hearts. Lehr goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find Admiral Yamamoto, on April 18, 1943, and then chronicles in dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him. He focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot from the tiny hamlet of Enid, Mississippi who was tasked with conceiving a flight route, literally to the second, for the only U.S. fighter plane on Guadalcanal capable of reaching Yamamoto hundreds of miles away - the new twin-engine P-38 Lightning with its fabled "cone of fire." Given unprecedented access to Mitchell's personal papers and hundreds of private letters, Lehr reveals for the first time the full story of Mitchell's wartime exploits up to the face-off with Yamamoto, along with those of key American pilots Mitchell chose for the momentous mission: Rex Barber, Thomas Lanphier Jr., Besby Holmes, and Ray Hine. The spotlight also shines on their enemy target -Admiral Yamamoto, the enigmatic, charismatic commander in chief of Japan's Combined Fleet, whose complicated feelings about the U.S.-he studied at Harvard-add rich complexity. In this way Dead Reckoning offers at once a fast-paced recounting of a crucial turning point in the Pacific war and keenly drawn portraits of its two main protagonists: Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, and John Mitchell, the architect of the Yamamoto's demise. Dead Reckoning features black-and-white photos throughout., 6, London: Arms and Armour, 1994. Near Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with 64 pages of photos. Maps. Appendices. Select bibliography. Index. History of the action at Okinawa that focuses on the naval fighting. From the Dust Jacket: "Using official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, Simon Foster has produced a dramatic narrative that fully reflects the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, Kamikaze assaults and battleship bombardments. Although the cost was indeed high, the success of [code-name Operation] 'Iceberg' convinced the Japanese that the Allies would not stop short of invading the mainland, convinced the Allies that such an invasion was inevitable -- but also convinced President Truman that the atomic bomb must be used against Japan." Continued: "Okinawa -- even more than Guadalcanal, Leyte and Iwo Jima -- this 60 mile long island in the Ryukus island chain typified the nature of the savagely fought Pacific War. The invasion of Okinawa by the Americans in April 1945 was the climax of the campaign against the Japanese that had begun more than three years earlier. It was the largest and most complex amphibious operation undertaken by the Americans in World War Two --and the most fiercely contested action in all the 'island-hopping' campaigns that had taken the Americans to the shores of Japan. Okinawa lies only 325 miles from the Japanese mainland and hence would make a superb staging post from which the B-29 bomber fleets could pound Japanese cities, and from where the inevitable and costly invasion of Japan itself could take place. Its capture was vital. So too, for the Japanese, was its defence, as part of the Absolute National Defence Zone, and the 32nd Army was created specifically to turn the island into a fortress. Together with the British Pacific Fleet, the American Task Force 58 launched the invasion -- code-named `Iceberg' -- on 1 April, and there followed 81 days of continuous fighting as the Japanese allowed the Americans to get a beachhead before following a policy of absolute resistance over every yard of the island. Attrition became the nature of the conflict -- by the end of the campaign for the island in June, Allied casualties were close to 50,000 men, with 22 ships sunk, more than 250 damaged, and over 500 aircraft lost. Few if any of the defending Japanese surrendered: the 77,000 strong 32nd Army had ceased to exist. This lively new study of the action at Okinawa emphasizes the naval fighting which was at the heart of the remarkable US operation. Only via absolute command and defence of the seas around Okinawa could the vast Task Force be supplied and maintained as an efficient fighting force. It is a tribute to the logistics support operations that such a large formation could be sustained and win a vital struggle." Keywords: WW2. WWII. Naval operations. Military history. . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hard Cover. Publisher's blue boards/Jacket not priced or clipped. Illus. by Burton, Peter (maps). 8vo. 192pp. + 64 pages of photos., Arms and Armour, 1994, 0, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Buff colored cloth boards. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows faint fading to spine; in a clear mylar sleeve. Illustrated. Index. 563 pages. 9 x 5.8 inches. World War II diary of General Douglas MacArthur's personal pilot, Weldon ''Dusty'' Rhoades., Texas A&M University Press, 1987, 4.5, A fascinating history of a remarkable aircraft."Edward Jablonski"An eloquent tribute." Publishers Weekly"Superb. . . . an excellent history." General John T. Chain, Jr. USAFAmong the most sophisticated aircraft flown during World War II, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress was designed to replace the B-17 as the primary long-range bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces. With its distinctive glazed nose and long, thin wings that provided both speed at high altitude and stability at takeoff and landing, the Superfortress was the first operational bomber with a pressurized crew cabin and featured advanced radar and avionics. Armed with remote-controlled machine gun turrets and a 20,000 pound bomb load, it was the first USAAF bomber capable of mastering the vast distances of the Pacific Theater of World War II. The prototype flew in September 1942 but a series of post-production modifications delayed the bomber's first mission until April 1944. Superfortresses began attacking Japan in daylight with conventional ordnance from high altitude, but their mission was redirected in March 1945, with massive low-level formations dropping incendiary bombs! at night on Japanese cities. The ensuing firestorms, followed by the complete destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs dropped from two specially modified "silverplate" B-29s, forced Japan to cease fighting., 0<
