Author: Richard W. FaisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cone
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Beam stiffness determined for thin walled truncated cones under bending loads.
Analytical and Experimental Investigation of End-plane Rotations of Truncated Cones Under Bending Loads
Author: Richard W. FaisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cone
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Beam stiffness determined for thin walled truncated cones under bending loads.
Futility Ending in Disaster
Author: Gaetano V. CavallaroPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462827446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 677
Book Description
As noted in Volume I (The Beginning of Futility) after the Allies had induced Italy to join them against the Central Powers, the Italian Army used the lives of its illiterate peasant fanti as coin advancing to finally endanger Austro-Hungarian defenses. By August, 1917, Viennas generals were convinced that with German help they had to counterattack while Gen. Eric Ludendorff was wary of giving assistance. Finally he was won over after hearing a bold and daring plan later known as blitzkrieg. Italian Intelligence warnings of an enemy offensive were discarded as it was too late in the year. On October 24,1917, Austro-German forces unleashed the first blitzkrieg battle of the century which the Italian Army as the Anglo-French in France in May 1940 could not handle. Using the four commandments of blitzkrieg (deception, infiltration, isolation , annihilation), they quickly advanced 100 miles through the confused Italian defenses halting at the Piave River and adjacent mountains. Unable to handle the assault, many disheartened troops had fled, but later, with heroic deeds, halted the enemy advance. Notwithstanding the great victory, Vienna was negotiating a separate peace with Lloyd George and President Woodrow Wilson both of whom who did not believe the Allies could win.
Marines In World War II - Saipan: The Beginning Of The End [Illustrated Edition]
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Author: Major Carl W. Hoffman USMCPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782892834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
On the outcome of the Battle of Saipain hung the fate of the Pacific War, if the Japanese were to lost this island then the Home Islands would finally be in range of serious American bombing. As the fanatical resistance of the Japanese was raised to fever pitch by the exhortations of the high command, whilst the Marines who had learnt hard lessons on assault landings knew that the capture of Saipan could shorten the war immeasurably; so was set one of the bloodiest battles of the entire Pacific Campaign. The Japanese fought with insane courage, leading to massed banzai charges and civilian suicides; matches by the gritty determination of the experienced Marines to conquer. Contains 103 photos and 24 maps and charts. “SAIPAN was one of the key operations in the Pacific War; key because it unlocked vast potentialities to the United States in projecting its might against the Japanese homeland; key because it opened the door of distance which had meant security to the Empire. Invasion of Saipan provided the supreme challenge in which the enemy was forced to select one of two alternatives: conserve his naval resources for a later decision, leaving uncontested this penetration of his inner defense; or lash out in a vicious, showdown fight. The fact that he chose the latter course, and suffered a resounding defeat, is now history. The conquest of Saipan was, among Pacific operations up to that time, the most clear-cut decisive triumph of combined arms of the United States over the Japanese. By June 1944, U. S. forces, long superior in quality of personnel and organization, were finally greatly superior in materiel with which to fight. Victory at Saipan made this apparent to all.”-C. B. CATES, GENERAL, U. S. MARINE CORPS., COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS.
Aeronautical Industry
Author: Aerial Age Weekly
Author: The American State Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Lawyers' Reports Annotated
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
The American Review of Reviews
Author: Albert ShawAero and Hydro
Author: Edmond Percy NoëlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Journey's End
Author: Kevin WilsonPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297858238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' Observer In February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The controversy that erupted shortly afterwards, and which continues to this day, has long overshadowed the other events of the bomber war, and blighted the memory of the young men who gave their lives to fight in the skies over Germany. Journey's End neither condemns nor condones the bombing of Dresden, but puts it in its proper context as part of a much larger campaign. To the young men who flew over Germany night after night there were other much more pressing worries: the V2 rockets that threatened their loved ones at home; the brand new German jet fighters that could strike them at speeds of over 600mph. They lived life at a heightened tempo during these final unforgiving months of the bomber war when no quarter was given on either side. As the climactic volume in Kevin Wilson's acclaimed bomber war trilogy, Journey's End chronicles the brutal endgame of a conflict that caused such devastation and tragedy on both sides.