Author: Everest Media, Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 45
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Pattle family was torn apart when World War I broke out. Jack Pattle, who was a military magistrate in South Africa, went off to fight against the Kaiser’s troops in South West Africa. It was four long years before he was able to see his children again. #2 The brothers were sent to the local school in Keetmanshoop, and for the first time in their lives, they were able to mix with children of German and Afrikaans descent. They were both given pellet guns, an indispensable part of a South African boy’s equipment. #3 Tom was a thousand miles from home, but he never felt homesick. He settled down quickly and made a lot of friends. He studied conscientiously, played games with gusto, and at the end of his first term was able to report that the school and the climate seemed to suit him. #4 Tom Pattle was a student at Grahamstown High School in 1931, when he decided to join the South African Air Force. He was invited to attend an interview at Air Force Headquarters in 1933, and was rejected. He began a course at a local commercial college to brush up his English grammar and other skills.
Author: E. C. R. Baker Publisher: ISBN: 9781913727017 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
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In terms of enemy aircraft shot down or destroyed, Squadron Leader Thomas 'Pat' Pattle was the greatest fighter pilot of the Second World War. A South African who flew with the RAF, Pattle was an airman of outstanding skills and leadership who became the Allies' top-scoring fighter pilot after winning scores of stunning victories in deadly aerial combat. But for years after the war ended, Pattle was virtually an unsung hero because the records of his extraordinary achievements were destroyed amid the turmoil of war. Compiled with the help of surviving pilots and members of the squadrons with which Pattle fought in the air over Greece, ACE OF ACES is a gripping and authoritative account of his amazing flying career, and the book which finally brought Pattle the recognition he so richly deserved.
Author: Patrick G. Eriksson Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445675676 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 526
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The experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, and diary and flying log book extracts, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published.
Author: Richard Townshend Bickers Publisher: Uniform Legends ISBN: 9781910500279 Category : Fighter pilots Languages : en Pages : 0
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Squadron Leader James Harry "Ginger" Lacey (1917-1989) was one of the top Royal Air Force pilots of World War II, shooting down twenty-eight enemy aircraft (plus another five classed as probables and nine damaged), a total that made him the second most-effective pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain. Originally published in 1962 and now available in a new illustrated edition, this book tells the story of Lacey's life and daring career in the air. In the process, Richard Townshend Bickers reveals what it was like not just for Lacey, but for all the young men charged with defending Britain's skies at the nation's most desperate hour. Bickers, who served as an office in the RAF himself and knew Lacey in his later years, brings to life the danger, adventures, risks, and achievements that made up the daily lives of RAF pilots during the war; his book will thrill any military or aviation buff.
Author: Adam Makos Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0425255735 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 402
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
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