The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939–1945 (Pocket Manual)
by Chris McNab
Airborne assault was one of the great innovations of the 1930s and 1940s, adding a new ‘vertical’ dimension to infantry warfare. By the onset of World War II in 1939, Germany, Italy, and Russia were already advanced in their development of paratrooper units. Germany in particular demonstrated the tactical shock of paratroopers in Western Europe in 1940 and, most spectacularly, in Crete in 1941, galvanizing the UK and the United States to expand and train their own airborne forces, which they unl...
B-47 in Action
Conference Proceedings (Conference proceedings, Vol 419)
Mi 14 PL, Mi 14PS, Mi 14 PL/R (Polish Wings, #14)
by Mariusz Kalinowski
This latest book in the Polish Wings series tells the story of the Mil Mi-14, a Soviet anti-submarine helicopter derived from the earlier Mi-8. The NATO code name for this helicopter is HazeA". It includes scale plans, photographs and drawings from official technical manuals, plus superb colour illustrations of camouflage and markings, walk-around colour photographs and archive images.
Racing Ace: the Fights and Flights of 'kink' Kinkead Dso, Dsc*, Dfc*
by Julian Lewis
Samuel 'Kink' Kinkead won two DSCs with the Royal Naval Air Service, two DFC with the fledgling RAF and the DSO in Russia.A brilliant pilot, post-war he was a long range aviation pioneer and leading racing ace selected for the international Schneider Trophy in Venice in 1927. Tragically he was killed aged just 31 in 1928 attempting to shatter the World Air Speed record. He is honoured by several memorials, at Cranwell, the RAF Club in Piccadilly, at Fawley and a permanent exhibition in the Kin...
This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism. Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as cowboys—and their planes compared to sett...