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Night cats & Corsairs : the operational history of Grumman and Vought night fighter aircraft, 1942-1953 / by Carey, Alan C.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) and index.
Subjects: Night fighter planes; Radar in aeronautics; Hellcat (Fighter planes); Corsair (Fighter plane); Tigercat (Fighter plane); Night fighter planes; Aeronautics, Military; World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953;
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The Defense of the Reich : Hitler's nightfighter planes and pilots / by Held, Werner.(CARDINAL)719168; Nauroth, Holger.(CARDINAL)719169;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Night fighter planes; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Fighting the night : Iwo Jima, World War II, and a flyer's life / by Hendrickson, Paul,1944-author.(CARDINAL)353684;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.Prologue: amarillo goodbye -- Beginnings. Long ago in Kentucky ; The road to South Field on Iwo Jima (1) ; The road to South Field on Iwo Jima (2) -- There. Clear pictures ; Where Leo E sat ; Eighty-three years later, not quite to the day;- Of James Dickey and my father ; The short unhappy life of The Merry Widow ; The last living airman of the 549th ; June-July 1945 ; The all-American life and mysterious death of Larry Garland (and the crew of Black Widow #42-39426) -- Epilogue: "sing me back home before I die.""In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author's father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents, one of the countless numbers of American family members shouldering the burden of being left behind. Joe Paul, the son of a Depression-poor Kentucky sharecropper, was fresh out of high school in 1937 when he enlisted in mechanic school in the peacetime Army Air Corps. Eventually, he was able to qualify for flight school. After marriage, and with the war on, the young officer and his bride crisscrossed the country, airfield to airfield, base to base: Santa Ana, Yuma, Kissimmee, Bakersfield, Orlando, La Junta, Fresno. He volunteered for night fighters and the newly arrived and almost mythic Black Widow. A world away, the carnage continued. As Paul Hendrickson tracks his parents' journey, together and separate, both stateside and overseas, he creates a vivid portrait of a hard-to-know father whose time in the war, he comes to understand, was something truly heroic, but never without its hidden and unhidden psychic costs. Bringing to life an iconic moment of American history, and the tragedy of all wars, Fighting the Night is an intense and powerful story of violence and love, forgiveness and loss. And it is a tribute to those who got plunged into service, in the best years of their lives, and the sacrifices they and their loved ones made, then and thereafter"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Hendrickson, Joseph P. (Joseph Paul), 1918-2003.; Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-; United States. Army Air Forces. Night Fighter Squadron, 549th; United States. Army Air Forces; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Fighter pilots; Black Widow (Night fighter plane);
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Dogfights [videorecording] : night fighters
Hellcats in the night -- P-61 Black Widow -- F3D Skyknight vs. MiG-15 -- Operation Allied Force -- A night patrol.At the beginning of World War II, no planes were designed for night fighting. The first part of the documentary recounts the story of Fred "Buck" Dungan, a Navy Hellcat fighter pilot who intercepted a Japanese formation over Guam after a bombing mission. Radar meant to be used at night was developed during World War II. Also during World War II, planes were specifically created for night fighting. Now all military planes are capable of night fighting.Not rated.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Dungan, Fred "Buck".; Airplanes; Radar; World War, 1939-1945.;
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Air combat / by Hansen, Ole Steen.(CARDINAL)635511;
Describes the tactics of air combat, famous flying aces, and the fighter planes that were used in World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the Gulf War.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Air warfare; Aeronautics, Military;
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Dogfights. by Lihani, Rob,director.(DLC)no2003017908; Connelly, David,1979-author.(DLC)nr2004005327; Crowley, Phil.(DLC)no2002066042; Arts and Entertainment Network.(DLC)nr 92019436 ; Digital Ranch (Firm),producer.(DLC)nr2003007687; History Channel (Television network),producer.(DLC)no 96037384 ; New Video Group,distributor.(DLC)no 95055790 ;
Narrator, Phil Crowley.Originally broadcast on The History Channel in 2007.Fighter aircraft face off in some of the most intense battles in the history of warfare in this documentary television series. This season features first-hand accounts of the flying aces themselves, combined with rare archival footage and state-of-the-art CGI graphics. Each air battle is recreated in stunning detail, putting viewers in the cockpit, facing the enemy to relive 17 of modern history's greatest battles.DVD; Dolby Digital stereo., Subatomic Digital.
Subjects: Documentary; War (Nonfiction); Documentary television programs.; Fighter plane combat; Air warfare; Fighter pilots.; Fighter planes.; Fighter plane combat; Military aeronautics; Fighter pilots.; Fighter planes.;
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Dogfights. [videorecording] /
Produced by Digital Ranch for The History Channel ; director, Rob Lihani ; writer, David Connelly.Narrator, Phil Crowley.Originally broadcast on The History Channel in 2007.Fighter aircraft face off in some of the most intense battles in the history of warfare in this documentary television series. This season features first-hand accounts of the flying aces themselves, combined with rare archival footage and state-of-the-art CGI graphics. Each air battle is recreated in stunning detail, putting viewers in the cockpit, facing the enemy to relive 17 of modern history's greatest battles.DVD; Dolby Digital stereo., Subatomic Digital.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Fighter plane combat; Air warfare; Fighter pilots.; Fighter planes.; War television programs.;
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Warthog : flying the A-10 in the Gulf War / by Smallwood, William L.,author.(CARDINAL)722182;
Terror in the night -- The airplane -- The initial deployment -- New tactics -- The night hogs are born -- Boredom and its antidotes -- From defense to offense -- The first day -- Scud hunting -- Warthogs to the rescue -- Night hogs in action -- Deep interdiction -- Luck runs out -- The wild west show -- The RFOA-10G -- Tragedy over the Medina -- Guard -- The ground war -- The bitter end -- Glossary -- Appendix: the A-10 pilots of Operation Desert Storm.Describes the characteristics of the A-10 Warthog, recounts its role in the Persian Gulf War, and shares the impressions and experiences of Gulf War pilots
Subjects: Persian Gulf War, 1991; Eagle (Jet fighter plane);
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The ME 262 Stormbird : from the pilots who flew, fought, and survived it / by Heaton, Colin D.(CARDINAL)668679;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-299).Too little, too late -- On the drawing board -- Test flights -- In the field -- Competition and innovation -- The stormbird takes wing -- A questionable political decision -- First encounters -- Challenges of the jet -- Night and day -- Fighting the fighters -- Fighting the bombers -- Kommando Mowotny -- The death of Nowotny -- Kommando Nowotny carries on -- Victories in the face of defeat -- Allied forces fight back -- The last death throes of JG-7 -- Galland and the squadron of experts -- The loss of Steinhoff -- Back in the air -- Galland's last mission -- The end of the war and JV-44 -- Operations Lusty and Paperclip : the post-war scramble for jets -- Appendix 1 : "My last mission / by Joe Petersbur -- Appendix 2 : German ranks and medals -- Appendix 3 -- Additional ME 262 data.
Subjects: Biographies.; Germany. Luftwaffe. Jagdgeschwader 7; Messerschmitt 262 (Jet fighter plane); Fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945;
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American fighter aircraft of World War II, 1941-45 / by Ward, Edward,Author(DLC)no2022041117;
American Fighter Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the fighter aircraft types deployed by the USAAF and US Navy from 1941 to 1945.   Organized chronologically, this book includes all-time greats, such as the highly-adaptable P-51 Mustang bomber escort, the carrier-based F6F Hellcat--which outperformed the legendary Japanese A6M Zero fighter--and the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, with its distinctive twin-boom design; as well as lesser-known types, such as the Boeing P-26 Peashooter, the high-altitude Republic P-43 Lancer, and the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, the USAAF's only operational jet fighter during the war. The entries are accompanied by exhaustive captions and specifications. The guide is illustrated with profile artworks and three-views, as well as two-page dynamic artworks of some of the more famous aircraft in service, such as the P-40 Warhawk ground-attack variant, the twin-engine P-61 Black Widow night-fighter, and the robust P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber.
Subjects: Airplanes, Military; Air warfare.; Fighter planes.; World War, 1939-1945; Aeronautics, Military;
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