john h woolnough (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. A clean tightly bound hardcover copy. Unmarked, gently read, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the boards. Dust jacket is tatty with pieces missing, but did its job protecting the book itself!

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 232 pages. The covers have some discoloring, fingerprint soiling; pages a little discolored; stamp inside; a sound binding. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; Inventory No: 226486.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1. edition. 264 pages, with photos Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900 8°, Orig-Cloth, dust jacket, nice copy.

264 pp. Photo illustrated. Publisher's hardcover with dust jacket. Spine just faintly slanted, dust jacket with minor shelf wear. Condition VG+ .

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Writing inside. Endpages and pages 6-7 offset by newspaper clipping. (world war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, pictorial works) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

(8th AF News: Hollywood, FL 1982). Illus, 12 x 9", boards, 224pp, a bit worn. 5th printing.

hardcover. Well-illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 4to, 380 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Folio, Fifth Impression, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, upper board blocked in colours, backstrip lettered in yellow, a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print (first published 1981). Large hardback copy in faux leather blue boards with yellow lettering to front and spine. No dustjacket as issued. 221pp. B/w photographs throughout. No inscriptions, no underlined or highlighted text, no notes in margins. Small mark to top corner of front pastedown where shop price sticker was removed, light wear to bottom edge of spine on rear cover. (1/3).

Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12.25 inches. 223, [1] pages. Illustrations. No dust jacket present. Name in ink inside the front cover with no unit information. VIII Bomber Command of the United States Army Air Forces was established early in 1942. It was the largest of the deployed combat Army Air Forces in numbers of personnel, aircraft, and equipment. The first combat operations began in July with first heavy bomber operations in August. Its bomber units were deployed in the UK, chiefly around East Anglia. From June 1943 it was the daylight bombing part of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. VIII Bomber Command was redesignated as Eighth Air Force on 22 February 1944. The Eighth Army Air Force (8 AAF) was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force in the European theater of World War II (1939/411945). The contents include Units assigned to 8th AF HQ and Units transferred to 12th AF, Fall 1943; VIII Sir Support Command; 1st Bomb Division; 2nd Bomb Division, 3rd Bomb Division, VIII AF Composite Command, VIII Fighter Command, VIII AF Service Command; Memphis Belle Saga, Nose Art Gallery; Reference Data and Miscellaneous Photographs. Within the Reference Data are Organizations Charts, Unit Location Guide, Airfield Occupants, Map Indexes and Station Locations Maps. LT John Woolnough Pilot 466th BG - 787th and 784th Bomb Squadron. He led his crew safely through a 30 mission tour. He retired as a USAF Lt. Colonel. Woolnough was founder of the 466th Bomb Group Association and the 8th Air Force Historical Society. The 8th AF engaged in operations primarily in the Northern Europe area of responsibility; carrying out strategic bombing of enemy targets in France, the Low Countries, and Germany; and engaging in air-to-air fighter combat against enemy aircraft until the German capitulation in May 1945. VIII Bomber Command launched its first raid in North-western Europe on 4 July 1942. Regular combat operations by the VIII Bomber Command began on 17 August 1942, when the 97th Bombardment Group flew the first VIII Bomber Command heavy bomber mission of the war from RAF Grafton Underwood. In Europe, Eighth Air Force was the first USAAF strategic air force, with a mission to support an invasion of continental Europe from the British Isles. Eighth Air Force carried out strategic daytime bombing operations in Western Europe from airfields in eastern England as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive. The Pointblank directive of June 1943 redirected the Allied strategic bombing effort against the German air force in order to reduce it to the point where it could not oppose the planned invasion of France in mid-1944. After redesignation as Eighth Air Force, it was assigned VIII Fighter and VIII Air Support Commands under its command. The plan was to use the US Strategic Air Forces in a series of coordinated raids, code-named Operation 'Argument' (popularly known as 'Big Week' ) and supported by RAF night bombing, on the German aircraft industry. Cold and clear weather was predicted for the last week of February 1944. On the night of 1920 February. the RAF provided sixteen squadrons of North American P-51 Mustangs and Supermarine Spitfires. In all, twelve aircraft factories were attacked. The B-24s hit the Gothaer Waggonfabrik (production of Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighters), the Fw 190 Arado Flugzeugwerke plant at Tutow and Heinkel's "Heinkel-Nord" headquarters at Rostock, which produced He 111 bombers. The Luftwaffe, conversely, was undertaking the sixth major raid of the "Baby Blitz" the following night (20/21 February), with only some 165 German aircraft sortieing against British targets. The raids on the German aircraft industry comprising much of "Big Week" caused so much damage that the Germans were forced to disperse aircraft manufacturing eastward, to safer parts of the Reich. On 22 March, over 800 bombers hit Berlin yet again, bombing targets through a thick rainy overcast causing more destruction. Because of the thick clouds and rain over the area the Luftwaffe did not attack the American bomber fleet, as the Germans believed that because of the weather the American bombers would be incapable of attacking their targets. Even so, the "pathfinder" bombers of the RAF Alconbury-based 482d Bomb Group proved very capable of finding the targets and guiding the bombers to them. On 1 May, over 1,300 Eighth Air Force heavy bombers made an all-out attack on the enemy's rail network, striking at targets in France and Belgium. On 7 May, another 1,000 bombers hit additional targets along the English Channel coast, hitting fortifications, bridges and marshaling areas. On D-Day, over 2,300 sorties were flown by Eighth Air Force heavy bombers in the Normandy and Cherbourg invasion areas, aimed at neutralizing enemy coastal defenses and troops. Major General Jimmy Doolittle's major influence on the European air war occurred when he made a critical change to the policy requiring escorting fighters to remain with the bombers at all times. American fighter pilots on bomber defense missions would primarily be flying far ahead of the bombers' combat box formations in air supremacy mode, literally "clearing the skies" of any Luftwaffe fighter opposition. This strategy cleared the Luftwaffe from Germany's skies throughout most of 1944. By mid-1944, Eighth Air Force had reached a total strength of more than 200,000 people. At peak strength, Eighth Air Force had forty heavy bomber groups, fifteen fighter groups, and four specialized groups. Hardcover (Leatherette with gilt lettering and logo).