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Three Aviation History Books by Martin Caidin
Requirements: ePub or Mobi Reader, 8.9 MB
Overview: Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.
Caidin began writing fiction in 1957, and authored more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books as well as more than 1,000 magazine articles. He also wrote numerous works of military history, particularly on the subject of aviation. One of his novels, ''Cyborg,'' inspired the 1970's television series ''The Six Million Dollar Man,'' starring Lee Majors. Another novel, ''Marooned,'' was the basis for a 1969 film with Gregory Peck. His other books include ''Black Thursday,'' ''Zero!,'' ''The Long Night,'' ''Overture to Space,'' ''Almost Midnight'' and ''The Last Dogfight.'' He collaborated with Harry Combs on ''Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers'' and wrote screenplays and magazine articles.
Caidin was an accomplished pilot as well, and bought, restored, and flew a 1936 Junkers Ju 52.
Genre: Non-Fiction | World War Two > Military Aviation
Fork-Tailed Devil The P38: This is the astonishing-and true-story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and from North Africa to Northern Europe.
Here is the thrilling story of pilot and plane in development and in combat, as they swept the skies of Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific. A magnificent story told by one of America's greatest historians of military aviation, Martin Caidin.
B-17 The Flying Forts: There is no such thunder in history, nor ever will be again, as the deep-throated roar of the mighty, four-engined B-17s that streamed across the skies in World War II. The long runways are silent now, the men and planes are gone. But out of the massive files of records available, and the memories of the men who flew, Martin Caidin has assembled this dramatic portrait of America's most formidable heavy bomber of the war. The B-17: The Flying Forts recreates a vanished era and a great and gallant plane -- a plane that could absorb three thousand enemy bullets, fly with no rudder, and complete its mission on two engines. A plane that American pilots flew at Pearl Harbor, Tunis, Midway, Palermo, Schweinfurt, Regensberg, Normandy, and Berlin, in thousands of missions and through hundreds of thousands of miles of flak-filled skies. A plane that proved itself in every combat theater as the greatest heavy bomber of World War II.
Black Thursday: The battle fought on Black Thursday stands high in the history of American fighting men. It will be long remembered, like the immortal struggles of Gettysburg, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, of Midway and the Bulge and Pork Chop Hill.
In all these battles one stands out among all the others for unprecedented fury, for losses suffered, for courage. This was the battle on Black Thursday, Mission 115 of the VIII Bomber Command from bases in England to the savagely defended German city of Schweinfurt. It was a battle in which we suffered unprecedented losses, and a battle that we cannot in honesty remember as having produced the results we had hoped for, or that hurt the enemy’s war effort as much as we had believed.
Yet it is an aerial struggle remembered with great pride, for it demanded the utmost in courage, in skill, in carrying on the fight in the face of bloody slaughter. All these things, and more, make up the story of Black Thursday.
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Requirements: ePub or Mobi Reader, 8.9 MB
Overview: Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.
Caidin began writing fiction in 1957, and authored more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books as well as more than 1,000 magazine articles. He also wrote numerous works of military history, particularly on the subject of aviation. One of his novels, ''Cyborg,'' inspired the 1970's television series ''The Six Million Dollar Man,'' starring Lee Majors. Another novel, ''Marooned,'' was the basis for a 1969 film with Gregory Peck. His other books include ''Black Thursday,'' ''Zero!,'' ''The Long Night,'' ''Overture to Space,'' ''Almost Midnight'' and ''The Last Dogfight.'' He collaborated with Harry Combs on ''Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers'' and wrote screenplays and magazine articles.
Caidin was an accomplished pilot as well, and bought, restored, and flew a 1936 Junkers Ju 52.
Genre: Non-Fiction | World War Two > Military Aviation
Fork-Tailed Devil The P38: This is the astonishing-and true-story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and from North Africa to Northern Europe.
Here is the thrilling story of pilot and plane in development and in combat, as they swept the skies of Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific. A magnificent story told by one of America's greatest historians of military aviation, Martin Caidin.
B-17 The Flying Forts: There is no such thunder in history, nor ever will be again, as the deep-throated roar of the mighty, four-engined B-17s that streamed across the skies in World War II. The long runways are silent now, the men and planes are gone. But out of the massive files of records available, and the memories of the men who flew, Martin Caidin has assembled this dramatic portrait of America's most formidable heavy bomber of the war. The B-17: The Flying Forts recreates a vanished era and a great and gallant plane -- a plane that could absorb three thousand enemy bullets, fly with no rudder, and complete its mission on two engines. A plane that American pilots flew at Pearl Harbor, Tunis, Midway, Palermo, Schweinfurt, Regensberg, Normandy, and Berlin, in thousands of missions and through hundreds of thousands of miles of flak-filled skies. A plane that proved itself in every combat theater as the greatest heavy bomber of World War II.
Black Thursday: The battle fought on Black Thursday stands high in the history of American fighting men. It will be long remembered, like the immortal struggles of Gettysburg, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, of Midway and the Bulge and Pork Chop Hill.
In all these battles one stands out among all the others for unprecedented fury, for losses suffered, for courage. This was the battle on Black Thursday, Mission 115 of the VIII Bomber Command from bases in England to the savagely defended German city of Schweinfurt. It was a battle in which we suffered unprecedented losses, and a battle that we cannot in honesty remember as having produced the results we had hoped for, or that hurt the enemy’s war effort as much as we had believed.
Yet it is an aerial struggle remembered with great pride, for it demanded the utmost in courage, in skill, in carrying on the fight in the face of bloody slaughter. All these things, and more, make up the story of Black Thursday.
Download Instructions:
https://www83.zippyshare.com/v/xPMkrdoe/file.html
Mirror:
https://userscloud.com/mzqrk6c3slt3
Zippyshare link only updated 5/31/2021
Enjoying my posts? Please feel free to say "Thank You"!>>>
Replacement files no longer available due to data loss during recent computer upgrade. April 8, 2022