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Author: John Foreman
Publisher: Red Kite / Air Research
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780954620158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference work will provide a vital tool for those researching the combats that took place over Europe, whether from the RAF or Luftwaffe view point.
Author: John Foreman
Publisher: Red Kite
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781906592073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference work will provide a vital tool for those researching the combats that took place over Europe, whether from the RAF or Luftwaffe view point.
Author: John Foreman
Publisher: Red Kite / Air Research
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780953806188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential reference series listing every combat claim submitted by RAF fighter pilots during World War Two. Part One covers the Fall of France and Battle of Britain, Part Two covers the period after the Battle of Britain when RAF Fighter Command went on the offensive over Occupied Europe.
Author: Ken Delve
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Published: 2021-04-21
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 178438383X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Luftwaffe had to be used in a decisive way in the Battle of Britain as a means of conducting total air war. Its size, technical equipment and the means at its disposal precluded the Luftwaffe from fulfilling this mission." - Adolf Galland How did the RAF beat the Luftwaffe during the Second World War? Was it actually the fact that they did not lose which later enabled them to claim victory – a victory that would have been impossible without the participation of the Americans from early 1943? This groundbreaking study looks at the main campaigns in which the RAF – and later the Allies – faced the Luftwaffe. Critically acclaimed writer Ken Delve argues that by the latter part of 1942 the Luftwaffe was no longer a decisive strategic or even tactical weapon. The Luftwaffe was remarkably resilient, but it was on a continual slide to ultimate destruction. Its demise is deconstructed according to defective strategic planning from the inception of the Luftwaffe; its failure to provide decisive results over Britain in 1940 and over the Mediterranean and Desert in 1941–1942; and its failure to defend the Reich and the occupied countries against the RAF and, later, combined Allied bomber offensive. Delve studies numerous aspects to these failures, from equipment (aircraft and weapons) to tactics, leadership (political and military), logistics, morale and others.
Author: Calista Digerolamo
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-14
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBattle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force (Luftwaffe) from July through September 1940, after the fall of France. Victory for the Luftwaffe in the air battle would have exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army, which was then in control of the ports of France only a few miles away across the English Channel. In the event, the battle was won by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fighter Command, whose victory not only blocked the possibility of invasion but also created the conditions for Great Britain's survival, for the extension of the war, and for the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. This is a history book based on a memoir of the RAF fighter-machine pilot found after his death, documenting the events of the battle in England, and the same level a look at the change in war years.
Author: Douglas C. Dildy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-07-09
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1472839153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only part of the story. The results of an air campaign cannot be measured in terms of territory captured, cities occupied or armies defeated, routed or annihilated. Successful air campaigns are those that achieve their intended aims or stated objectives. Victory in the Battle of Britain was determined by whether the Luftwaffe achieved its objectives. The Luftwaffe, of course, did not, and this detailed and rigorous study explains why. Analysing the battle in its entirety in the context of what it was – history's first independent offensive counter-air campaign against the world's first integrated air defence system – Douglas C. Dildy and Paul F. Crickmore set out to re-examine this remarkable conflict. Presenting the events of the Battle of Britain in the context of the Luftwaffe's campaign and RAF Fighter Command's battles against it, this title is a new and innovative history of the battle that kept alive the Allies' chances of defeating Nazi Germany.
Author: David Oliver
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780004722207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"RAF Fighter Command fought and won the most crucial battle of the Second World War. Had it failed in the summer of 1940 and the Luftwaffe won air superiority over southern Britain, the course of world history might have been very different. In August 1940, General Erwin Rommel, later commander of the famous Afrika Korps, was scheduled to lead his 7th panzer division ashore in Kent. Instead, Fighter Command's victory in the Battle of Britain ruled out any possibility of a German invasion across the Channel. And so Hitler turned east, launched his armies into Russia and transformed the course of the war." "Sixty years on, the number of survivors of the Battle of Britain, and of Fighter Command's subsequent campaigns, is sadly dwindling. Aviation historian David Oliver has interviewed many veterans in the course of his research. His new history of the wartime RAF is based on eyewitness testimony as well as a lifetime's study of the Second World War in the air."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: John Ray
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2012-11-25
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 190927075X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuly 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Roval Navy, stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expected German invasion. But the Luftwaffe's ill-prepared and last-minute assault on the RAF was met by a carefully planned system of fighter intervention, the defensive strategy devised by Hugh Dowding, Commander-in-Chief, RAF Fighter Command. Dowding fought and won Britain's most vital victory, the Battle of Britain. Yet he was dismissed in October 1940. Why?The full story of Dowding's struggle to victory is revealed in this masterly new study by Second World War historian John Ray. Dowding was under daily attack from rivals in the RAF and at the Air Ministry, who wanted a different approach to air defence, despite the severity of the threat and Dowding's success. John Ray tracks the course of the Battle and the internal arguments that threatened Dowding's position and RAF supremacy; this new perspective, matching the ebb and flow of bitter argument in the corridors of power with the drama of war in the air, makes for an engrossing study in RAF history and reveals the truth behind the Battle of Britain.
Author: Norman Franks
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2016-10-14
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1473847230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extensive history of the Royal Air Force’s Circus offensive against Nazi Germany in World War II, by the author of Jasta Boelcke. Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by large numbers of fighters, tried to force the Luftwaffe into battle. Much air combat ensued, but it was not until Germany invaded Russia in June, 1941, that operations were stepped up in an effort to take pressure off Stalin’s Russian Front. Two major German fighter groups, JG26 and JG2, were, however, more than able to contain the RAF’s operations, generally only intercepting when conditions were in their favor. As author Norman Franks describes, over-claiming combat victories by pilots of both sides is amazing, and several of the top aces had inflated scores. Fighter Command, however, lost massively even though they believed they were inflicting equal, if not better, losses on the Luftwaffe. This battle of attrition was virtually a reverse of the 1940 battles over England, and pilots who had to bail out over France, were lost completely. The book covers the 100+ Circus operations and their accompanying fighter sweeps in detail, while also mentioning lesser operations where the RAF were concerned. The tactics employed by both sides are examined and show how each fighter force quickly adapted to changing conditions tempered by experiences gained in air combat.
Author: Norman L. R. Franks
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
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