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| Author | : Brian Cull |
| Publisher | : Grub Street Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2014-01-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1908117966 |
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This WWII history recounts how RAF pilots, outgunned by superior Japanese aircraft, nevertheless flew and fought their way to victory. In 1940, the Royal Air Force Purchasing Commission acquired more than 100 Brewster B-339 Buffalo fighter planes from the US. But when the aircraft were deemed below par for service in the UK, the vast majority were diverted for use in the Far East, where it was believed they would be superior to any Japanese aircraft encountered should hostilities break out there. This assessment was to prove tragically mistaken. When war erupted in the Pacific, the Japanese Air Forces proved vastly superior in nearly all aspects. Compounding their advantage was the fact that many of the Japanese fighter pilots were veterans of the war against China. By contrast, most of the young British, New Zealand, and Australian pilots who flew the Buffalo on operations in Malaya and in Singapore were little more than trainees. Yet these fledgling fighter pilots achieved much greater success than could have been anticipated. Buffaloes Over Singapore tells their story in vivid detail, complete with previously unpublished source material and wartime photographs.
| Author | : Brian Cull |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Download Hurricanes Over Singapore Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Hurricanes over Singapore is the companion volume to the successful Buffaloes over Singapore published in 2003. It continues the story of the RAF's gallant but futile attempt to stop the might of the Japanese invasion force in its quest to conquer not only Singapore, but also Sumatra and Java and all the other islands that constituted the Netherlands East Indies. The Hurricanes went into action over Singapore on 20 January 1942 and the last two aircraft made the final flight at Java on 8 March that year. During the intervening time the Hurricane pilots and ground crew - British, New Zealanders, Australians, Canadians, Dutch and Americans - gave their all, with many making the supreme sacrifice. The majority of survivors would spend the next 3 1⁄2 years as prisoners of the Japanese - and some of their heart-rending stories are detailed here. This expertly researched account, the most comprehensive to date, and accompanied by rare photographs, is told wherever possible by the pilots themselves, the majority of whom were young and inexperienced. Their efforts should not be forgotten and this book is a dispassionate tribute to those who fell in battle, those who died as prisoners and those who survived the trials and tribulations of imprisonment.
| Author | : Kari Stenman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2013-06-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472804562 |
Download Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although designed and built for the US Navy, the F2A fought in only one major US engagement, the battle of Midway, in which F2A pilots managed to shoot down a number of Japanese fighters. Soon replaced by the navy, the F2A was exported to Britain, where it was nicknamed the 'Buffalo' thanks to its stubby appearance. The British sent most of these fighters to the Far East where they were used in the defence of Singapore and Malaya. It was in the Winter War, however, that the F2A truly found a home. Calling the plane simply the Brewster, the Finnish flew it against the invading Russians. Overall 37 Finns achieved ace status flying the Brewster, and it was the Finnish fighter of choice until succeeded by the Bf 109 in 1943.
| Author | : Peter Davies |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2014-09-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317868609 |
Download Dangerous Liaisons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and also many other controversial pro-Nazi leaders in Western Europe, Scandanavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and also beyond. Delving into four different "types" of collaboration: political, financial, the Holocaust, and collaboration at a social level, he asks some difficult questions. The story of collaboration is brought up to date, assessing both the legacy and its contemporary parallels.
| Author | : Ralph F. Wetterhahn |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2019-11-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147666997X |
Download The Early Air War in the Pacific Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.
| Author | : Aurora Donzelli |
| Publisher | : National University of Singapore Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2020-09-25 |
| Genre | : Sociolinguistics |
| ISBN | : 9789813251144 |
Download One Or Two Words Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Toraja highlanders of Indonesia use the expression "one or two words" to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Taking off from this understatement, which signals the meaningfulness of transient acts of speech, One or Two Words offers an analysis of the shifting power relations between centers and peripheries in one of the world's most linguistically diverse countries. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Aurora Donzelli explores how people forge forms of collective belonging to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words, WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts of pigs and buffaloes, and the performance of elaborate political speeches and ritual chants. Donzelli describes the complex forms of cosmopolitan indigeneity that have emerged in the Toraja highlands during several decades of encounters with a variety of local and international interlocutors, and by engaging wider debates on the dynamics of cultural and linguistic change in relationship to globalizing influences, the book sheds light on a neglected dimension of post-Suharto Indonesia: the recalibration of power relations between national and local languages. One or Two Words will be of interest to scholars of language, politics, power relationships, identity, social change, and local responses to globalizing influences.
| Author | : Brian Cull |
| Publisher | : Grub Street Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781904943396 |
Download Diver! Diver! Diver! Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
V-1s were very difficult targets to intercept and shoot down. Nevertheless, many pilots became 'diver aces', one pilot alone accounting for 60 of these pilot-less aircraft. Every known kill is recorded in this book with many dramatic stories from the pilots themselves and eyewitnesses on the ground.
| Author | : Colin Smith |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 969 |
| Release | : 2006-05-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0141906626 |
Download Singapore Burning Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
| Author | : Graham Clayton |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2015-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1775530779 |
Download Last Stand In Singapore Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The story of 488 RNZAF Squadron during the fall of Singapore early in 1942. This gripping history has been written using the diaries, letters, photographs and personal reminiscences of members of 488 Squadron, who were based just outside Singapore City and valiantly kept planes in the air against Japanese attacks until just before the city was overwhelmed. The story of their day-to-day life at a time of crisis, their hard work and their valour is eye-opening. The remaining ground crew were granted passage on one of the last ships to leave the island, when the Japanese were just 1 kilometre from the city centre. The ship had accommodation for 23 passengers, yet there were approximately 3000 people crammed on board. The overcrowding was the least of their worries...
| Author | : Anushka Ravishankar |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 51 |
| Release | : 2008-03-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547529201 |
Download Elephants Never Forget Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Crraack! Flash! Boom! When a terrible storm scatters a group of elephants, one tiny member of the herd is left behind in the loud, chittering jungle. Where can he turn? The water buffalo look nice enough, but he couldn’t become a part of their herd . . . could he?
