Tag: Airborne

Free Download T Moffatt Burriss, "Strike and Hold: A Memoir of the 82nd Airborne in World War II"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 1574882589, 1574883488 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 4.1 mb
This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World War II. He saw a great deal of combat on Sicily, at Salerno, on Anzio Beach, in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and during the drive into Germany. This book portrays World War II as seen vividly through the eyes of the young American citizen-soldier.

Free Download US Airborne Tanks, 1939-1945 by Charles C Roberts Jr
English | March 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1526785021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 21 Mb
This book explores the design and deployment of American airborne tanks from the earliest concepts to their actual use.

Free Download Guidance Information Processing Methods in Airborne Optical Imaging Seeker by Tianxu Zhang
English | EPUB | 2019 | 377 Pages | ISBN : 9811369933 | 133.3 MB
This book covers all main aspects of guidance information processing technologies for airborne optical imaging seekers, including theoretical models; image pre-processing; automatic target detection, recognition and tracking; and embedded real-time processing systems.

Free Download American Eagles: The 101st Airborne’s Assault on Fortress Europe 1944/45 (Americans Fighting to Free Europe) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNB2K261 | 2023 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Charles Whiting
Narrator: Dallas Britt
Of the 6,600 paratroopers of the 101st ‘Screaming Eagles’ Airborne Division who parachuted into France in the early hours of 6 June 1944-D-Day-some 3,500 were listed as missing by midnight that same night. Yet it was only the beginning of their ‘rendezvous with destiny.’ American Eagles is the remarkable true story of the United States 101st Airborne Division. From their rigorous training in ‘Old Jolly’ (England) to their first operational jump in Normandy, Charles Whiting tells the story of this ‘Band of Brothers’, who fought, suffered, and died in the eleven-month campaign that followed.

Free Download Britain’s Airborne Forces of WWII: Uniforms and Equipment by Mark Magreehan
English | May 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1526779463 | 346 pages | PDF | 39 Mb
The Second World War saw huge advancements in military tactics and technology occurring at an unprecedented pace. One such development was the employment of forces able to deploy at short notice by parachute across the globe, utilizing the opportunities created by the advancements in aeronautical technology. These forces were created to deliver an in-depth shock effect, and few have attracted more attention than Britain’s famed Parachute Regiment. This formation was born from the humble beginnings of a fledgling unit drawn together from the British Army and Royal Air Force after Winston Churchill called for a new capability to be created following German airborne successes in the opening stages of the Second World War.

Free Download Bruce Quarrie, "German Airborne Divisions: Blitzkrieg 1940-41"
English | 2004 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 1841765716 | PDF | 13,6 mb
The German Army of World War II was the first to fully realise the benefits of using airborne troops alongside armoured formations. German Airborne Divisions became an integral part of the blitzkrieg operations that overran much of Western Europe during 1940 and 1941, from the historic raid on the Belgian fortress of Eben-Emael to the pyrrhic victory over British and Commonwealth forces on the island of Crete. This title looks at the creation, evolution, and early operational deployment of the German airborne forces (‘Fallschirmtruppe’), through highly detailed orders of battle, TOEs and examinations of crucial aspects such as doctrine, training, command and control, and the concept of vertical envelopment.

Free Download Operation Colossus: The First British Airborne Raid of World War II by Lawrence Paterson, Maj Gen Adrian Freer
English | June 24, 2020 | ISBN: 1784383783 | 342 pages | PDF | 7.97 Mb
Lawrence Paterson’s groundbreaking new book is a detailed account of the now legendary Operation Colossus, the first British airborne raid of the Second World War, which took place in Basilicata, Italy on 10 February 1941.

Free Download George Koskimaki, "Hell’s Highway: Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September – November 1944"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1612000738, 193203305X | EPUB | pages: 504 | 4.7 mb
Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the "Screaming Eagles" part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands.