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January 8, 2024

The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939-1945

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English | March 22, 2022 | ISBN: 1526799790 | 440 pages | MOBI | 60 Mb
For the first time, this book tells the story of how naval air operations evolved into a vital element of the Royal Navy’s ability to fight a three-dimensional war against both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. An integral part of RN, the Fleet Air Arm was not a large organization, with only 406 pilots and 232 front-line aircraft available for operations in September 1939. Nevertheless, its impact far outweigh its numbers; it was an RN fighter that shot down the first enemy aircraft of the war, and an RN pilot was the first British fighter "ace" with 5 or more kills. The Fleet Air Arm’s rollcall of achievements in northern waters went on to include the Norwegian Campaign, the crippling of Bismarck, the gallant sortie against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as they passed through the Channel, air attacks on enemy E-boats in the narrow seas, air cover for the Russian convoys, air attacks that disabled Tirpitz, and strikes and minelaying operations against German shipping in the Norwegian littoral that continued until May 1945. By the end of the war in Europe the FAA had grown to 3243 pilots and 1336 aircraft.

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January 4, 2024

The British Pacific Fleet The Royal Navy’s Most Powerful Strike Force (2024)

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Free Download David Hobbs, "The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy’s Most Powerful Strike Force"
English | 2011 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 1848320485 | EPUB | 103,0 mb
August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action. How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity, diplomacy and dogged persistence all played a part. As much a political as a technical triumph, the BPF was uniquely complex in its make-up: its C-in-C was responsible to the Admiralty for the general direction of his Fleet; took operational orders from the American Admiral Nimitz; answered to the Government of Australia for the construction and maintenance of a vast base infrastructure, and to other Commonwealth Governments for the ships and men that formed his fully-integrated multi-national fleet. This ground-breaking new work by David Hobbs describes the background, creation and expansion of the BPF from its first tentative strikes, through operations off the coast of Japan to its impact on the immediate post-war period, including the opinions of USN liaison officers attached to the British flagships. The book is the first to demonstrate the real scope and scale of the BPF s impressive achievement.

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January 4, 2024

Fleet Air Arm Aircraft of World War 2 British-built types used by the Royal Navy (Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive) (2024)

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Free Download Mike Hooks – Fleet Air Arm Aircraft of World War 2: British-built types used by the Royal Navy (Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive)
Kelsey Publishing Group | 2013 | ISBN: 1907426515 | English | 108 pages | PDF | 104.3 MB
This is the sixth edition of Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive and we now look towards British-built aircraft of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm – it is intended that American types used by the FAA will be included in a later volume. As before, we do not give full details of every type which have been covered in many books, but only basic data for each type. Once again, we bring you some of the fi nest images from the war years, supplemented by other illustrations from our archives along with period cutaway drawings where these are available. The archive includes some 40,000 fi ve-inch glass-plate negatives and around 50,000 35mm strips taken by The Aeroplane and Flight photographers – a large proportion of the archive dating from 1909 to the 1960s was gifted from Flight to The Aeroplane.

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November 21, 2023

Vinitysoft Vehicle Fleet Manager 2023.11.21.0 Multilingual

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Your fleet of vehicles is the lifeblood of your organization. Why trust the management of that fleet to fleet management software that hasnt been designed with your specific needs in mind? We are proud to present one of the most comprehensive and detailed vehicle fleet management software suites available today Vinity Softs Vehicle Fleet Manager.

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