Название: Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Автор: Michael O'Leary
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Production Line to Frontline 4
ISBN: 1841760234
Год издания: 2001
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 148
Формат: PDF
Размер: 51,7 MB

Commissioned to replace the B-17, when production ended 18,475 Liberators had been made, making it the most produced American aircraft of World War II. This volume features a selection of rare company advertisements as well as detailed appendices of production details.

Название: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang
Автор: Michael O'Leary
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Production Line to Frontline 1
ISBN: 1855327031
Год издания: 1998
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 146
Формат: PDF
Размер: 62,9 MB

Regarded as the finest US fighter of the World War II, the Mustang was built in astonishing numbers - 7956 P-51Ds alone - as the might of America's overwhelming industrial base swung into line behind the nation's global war effort. This new series follows the great fighter types of the conflict from the raw metal phase, through construction and testing, to the combat theatres of Europe, the Middle East, China/Burma/India and the Pacific. Using official and private archival black and white and colour material, all the facts behind the Mustang's construction are revealed.

Название: Ridgewell's Flying Fortresses: The 381st Bombardment Group (H) in World War II
Автор: Ron MacKay
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Серия: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 0764310631
Год издания: 2000
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 255
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152,6 MB

In June 1943 the quiet English countryside around the village of Ridgewell in northwest Essex was transformed by the arrival of the 381st Bomb Group with its B-17 Flying Fortresses. The subsequent battle in the skies over Europe witnessed the 381st, in concert with their fellow-airmen with the Mighty Eighth, striking 297 times at Hitlers Fortress Europe and dropping over 22,000 tons of ordnance in the process. The cost to the group was 131 aircraft and over 1200 combat crew missing in action, sustained during the course of a fiercely contested struggle stretching over 1000 days.

Название: Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers 1921–45
Автор: Mark Stille, Tony Bryan
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 109
ISBN: 978 1841768533
Год издания: 2005
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 50
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2,1 MB

The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the 'Hosho'. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it experimented with its carriers, perfecting their design and construction. As result, by the time Japan entered World War 2 and attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in 1941, it possessed a fantastically effective naval aviation force. Carriers would roam the Pacific with near impunity, destroying their opponents at will. This book covers the design, development and operation of IJN aircraft carriers built prior to and during World War 2. Pearl Harbor, Midway and the first carrier vs carrier battle, the battle of the Coral Sea, are all discussed.

Название: The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War
Автор: James Miller
Издательство: Birlinn
ISBN: 1843410117
Год издания: 2003
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 86*2
Формат: PDF
Размер: 105,8 MB

During the two world wars, the chain of island groups - Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes and Iceland - linking Europe to North America, acquired great strategic significance. Operating from its main base at Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy and its allies sought to contain the German naval threat within the North Sea and protect the northern flank of maritime operations in the North Atlantic.

Автор: Kenneth P. Werrell
Название: Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development From Vietnam to Desert Storm
Издательство: Smithsonian Books
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 360
Язык: English
Размер: 89 MB

Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development From Vietnam to Desert Storm.

Автор: Edward Stokes Miller
Название: Civil War Sea Battles
Издательство: Combined Books
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Язык: English
Размер: 57 MB

Civil War Sea Battles.

Автор: Richard Hallion
Название: Storm Over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War
Издательство: Smithsonian Institution Press
Год: 1992
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 440
Язык: English
Размер: 75 MB

Storm Over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War.

Автор: Martin Stephen
Название: Sea Battles in Close-Up: World War 2
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Язык: English
Размер: 106 MB

Sea Battles in Close-Up: World War 2.

Название: Место службы – Владикавказ. Интернет-дневник офицера (2006—2010)
Автор: Алексей Меллер
Издательство: ИД «Сказочная дорога»
Год: 2012
Страниц: 530, 78 ил.
Язык: Русский
Формат: rtf, pdf
Размер: 12,4 Mb

В интернет-дневнике Алексея Меллера нашли отражение и реалии армейского быта, и состояние современной российской армии. Молодой офицер не только рисует картины армейской жизни, но и пытается разобраться в происходящих событиях, делает свои выводы.