Catálogo de libros: Guerra: fuerzas aéreas

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  • Eagles Rampant Rising
    Charles J. Biddle / Charles JBiddle / Quentin Roosevelt
    Life and death in the skies above the battlefields of FranceThere are few books written by the dauntless young pilots who fought the first real war of the air when powered aircraft bombed, strafed, observed or fought in life or death dogfights over the battle lines. This special Leonaur edition contains two riveting accounts of the early conflict in the clouds by American pilot...
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    23,88 €

  • J.A.P.
    Edward Landers
    JAP is a story about a young man who somehow, through a series of accidents intentions, mistakes and drive became a Naval Aviator, no mean feat by any accounts. Having survived the grim reaper several times during his eight years of flying on active duty with the Navy he has come to believe, sort of, that he is a good aviator and can take care of just about anything that arises...
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    19,28 €

  • Pilot Training Manual for the B-25 Mitchell Bomber
    Army Air Forces Hq / United States Army
    This is a full color reprint of the official and restricted training manual issued in November 1944. With photographs and line drawings throughout. ...
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    33,99 €

  • Air Force Roles and Mission
    U. S. Office of Air Force History / USOffice of Air Force History / Warren A. Trest / Warren aTrest
    Originally published in 1988. From the foreword: 'The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of three-dimensionality in war: surface forces now became prey for attackers operating above and below the earth and its oceans. The aerial weapon, prophesied for centuries, became a reality, as did air power projection forces. This insightful book by Warren A. Trest traces the doctr...
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    24,48 €

  • We Wanted Wings
    Air Education Training Command / Bruce Ashcroft / Office of History and Research
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    23,29 €

  • The Advisory Years to 1965 (the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia Series)
    Martin Blumenson / Office of Air Force History / Robert F. Futrell / Robert FFutrell
    Tells the story of the Air Force’s involvement in the region from the end of the second World War until the major infusion of American troops into Vietnam in 1965. During these years, and most noticeably after 1961 , the Air Force’s principal role in Southeast Asia was to advise the Vietnamese Air Force in its struggle against insurgents seeking the collapse of the Saigon gover...
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    37,23 €

  • The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance
    CIA History Staff / Donald E. Welzenbach / Gregory W. Pedlow
    Please include this as the description: 'On May 1, 1960, the news that the Soviet Union had downed a CIA high-altitude spy plane added the names 'U-2' and 'Francis Gary Powers' to the convoluted narrative of Cold War espionage. Yet this celebrated episode was only one aspect of an extraordinary history of covert, high-tech intrusion of secret U.S. aircraft into other nations' a...
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    66,59 €

  • Vietnam to Western Airlines
    Bruce Cowee
    This oral history of the air war in Vietnam includes the stories of more than thirty pilots who all had one thing in common-after returning from Southeast Asia and separating from the service, they were hired as pilots by Western Airlines. As the chapters begin, Bruce Cowee tells his story and introduces us to each pilot. The interesting theme is that all of these men served in...
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    30,42 €

  • The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance
    CIA History Office / Donald E. Welzenbach / Gregory W. Pedlow
    Please include this as the description: 'On May 1, 1960, the news that the Soviet Union had downed a CIA high-altitude spy plane added the names “U-2” and “Francis Gary Powers” to the convoluted narrative of Cold War espionage. Yet this celebrated episode was only one aspect of an extraordinary history of covert, high-tech intrusion of secret U.S. aircraft into other nations’ a...
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    39,99 €

  • An Erking Good Life
    Ken J. Rutterford
    Erk - a male member of the RAF of the lowest rank. An Erk was a bloke that could be found clambering all over an aircraft. The aircraft he called a Kite. Without the work that was performed by Erks, the aircrews could never have flown. If he was an engine bod, then he would take on an oily, greasy appearance. He came in all shapes and sizes and was known to be very fond o...
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    28,44 €

  • Tactical Airlift (the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia)
    Office of Air Force History / Roy L. Bowers / Roy LBowers
    Originally published in 1983. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Presents the United States Air Force’s use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the decision of President Truman to assist the French in 1950 to the end of United States involvement in 1975. ...
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    47,87 €

  • Training to Fly
    Air Force History & Museums Program / Rebecca Hancock Cameron
    First published in 1999, this book is an institutional history of flight training by the predecessor organizations of the United States Air Force. The U.S. Army purchased its first airplane, built and successfully flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright, in 1909, and paced both lighter-and heavier-than-air aeronautics in the Division of Military Aeronautics of the Signal Corps. Amer...
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    42,49 €

  • Sierra Hotel
    C. R. Anderegg
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    50,59 €

  • Setup
    Air University Press / Earl H. Tilford / Earl HTilford
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    24,55 €

  • Sierra Hotel
    Air Force History &. Museums Program / C. R. Anderegg / Richard P. Hallion
    Originally published in 2001. From the foreword: 'In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C. R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast...
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    19,35 €

  • History of the Air Corps Tactical School 1920-1940
    Robert T. Finney / Robert TFinney / Us Air Force History &. Museums Program / Us Air Force History &Museums Program
    From the foreword: 'In the 1930s the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the birthplace and nurturing ground for American air doctrine. The work undertaken at the school became manifest in the skies over Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific in the Second World War. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared America for w...
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    25,40 €

  • To Save a City
    Roger G. Miller / Roger GMiller / Us Air Force History &. Museums Program / Us Air Force History &Museums Program
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    25,47 €

  • Luck on the Wing
    Elmer Haslett
    A first hand account of combat in the air by an American ObserverThe Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provided powered and manoeuvrable flight. There are few memoirs written by those engaged in the air war, so all are essential from an historical perspective and most are riveting. This was a ...
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    32,44 €

  • Luck on the Wing
    Elmer Haslett
    A first hand account of combat in the air by an American ObserverThe Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provided powered and manoeuvrable flight. There are few memoirs written by those engaged in the air war, so all are essential from an historical perspective and most are riveting. This was a ...
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    20,59 €

  • Above the Battle
    Vivian Drake
    The young R. F. C pilot’s air war above the Western FrontIt seems incredible that just over 100 years ago no country counted an air-force among its armed services. Pilots were drawn from other branches of the military and the early airmen were not referred to as ’the cavalry of the air’ for no reason. The First World War introduced aerial bombing of troops, transport, manufactu...
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    30,75 €

  • Above the Battle
    Vivian Drake
    The young R. F. C pilot’s air war above the Western FrontIt seems incredible that just over 100 years ago no country counted an air-force among its armed services. Pilots were drawn from other branches of the military and the early airmen were not referred to as ’the cavalry of the air’ for no reason. The First World War introduced aerial bombing of troops, transport, manufactu...
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    18,89 €

  • Almost a Boffin
    EE Vielle
    To continue to live life to the full at 100 years old is quite amazing! In this exhilarating, exciting and at times emotional book EE (Tubby) Vielle takes us through a life which involved several different careers. His early childhood memories draw you into a forgotten world. The threat of hunger during the Great Depression led him away from university to the RAF and flying 150...
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    20,90 €

  • Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945
    Chicago DODO Chapter Tuskegee Airmen / Kenneth Rapier
    Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945 shares the memories of 22 original Tuskegee Airmen and their experiences as African American combat aviators during World War II. Filled with photographs, combat records, mission reports, official correspondence, newspaper clippings, and the personal annotations of the original document owners, Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945 provides a singularly unique re...
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    50,43 €

  • Brothers at Daybreak.
    World War II B-24 crew beats the odds over Pacific waters.Brothers at Daybreak tells the intimate story of 11 boys who got together in 1944 to fight World War II from the air above the vast Pacific Ocean. The young members of Pilot Frank Jeter’s flight crew took their role in defeating the Japanese one mission and one day at a time. They stuck together to face the constant thre...
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    23,13 €

  • Command of the Air
    Charles a. Gabriel / Giulio Douhet
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    68,83 €

  • Command of the Air
    Giulio Douhet
    Reprint of the 1983 translation by staff of the United States Office of Air Force History. 3 ...
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    34,14 €

  • Eagles of the RAF
    National Defense University Press / Philip D. Caine
    Orginally published in 1991. From the foreword: 'Although the United States did not enter World War II until the end of 1941, US citizens fought and died in the war long before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Among them were the pilots of the Eagle Squadrons, three fighter squadrons of Britain's Royal Air Force manned by young US flyers risking their lives in another nation...
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    34,07 €

  • Lucrative Targets
    Air Force History and Museums Programs / Perry D. Jamieson
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    28,79 €

  • Piercing the Fog
    Air Force History and Museums Program
    From the foreword: WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. Piercing the Fog tells the intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organiz...
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    54,00 €

  • Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War
    Air University Press / David N. Spires
    First published in 2002. From the foreword: 'This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during t...
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    54,53 €


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