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Turning The Tide: The USAAF in North Africa

Autor Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mai 2024
Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II. In 1942, the Western Allies needed to take the offensive against the Axis to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union. With planning for a cross-Channel invasion beset by logistical and operational difficulties, in May 1942 President Roosevelt ordered his military leaders to prepare to support the British in the Mediterranean. This led to the first USAAF units arriving in the Middle East in July, firstly as reinforcements for the British and later as part of the Operation Torch landings in French Morocco and Algeria in November. In little over ten months from the summer of 1942, the USAAF in North Africa grew from nothing to a senior partner, providing aircraft and crews the other Allies were unable to match. The Axis forces that had controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean had been swept from the African continent - thanks in no small part to the efforts of the USAAF.Using first-hand accounts from pilots and other aircrew, Tom Cleaver describes how the USAAF units that landed in Morocco were forced to learn their own lessons in combat with veteran Luftwaffe units, and how the experience gained in the skies over North Africa and Sicily was invaluable in developing the air forces that would dominate the skies over Europe in the latter years of the war.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472860255
ISBN-10: 147286025X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16-page black and white plate section
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Osprey Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Tom Cleaver is a highly respected aviation author who has written a quartet on the history of aviation in the Pacific War. This is his second book on Air Force operations in the European theater.

Notă biografică

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his work including the best-selling Osprey titles The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Cuprins

[Subject to confirmation)Author PrefaceChapter One: The Mad DashChapter Two: 1942: The Lowest YearChapter Three: First in the BlueChapter Four: El AlameinChapter Five: OpponentsChapter Six: Airwar over CasablancaChapter Seven: Race to TunisiaChapter Eight: Bomber BoysChapter Nine: Kasserine PassChapter Ten: TunisgradChapter Eleven: PantelleriaChapter Twelve: Air War over SicilyBibliographyGlossaryIndex