Bombers

Bombers
Author: Richard Lally
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781400046775

With thirty-eight pennants and twenty-six World Series victories, the Yankees aren’t just the most successful baseball team of all time, they’re the most successful franchise in the history of sports. InBombers, you’ll find stories about all the Yankees legends, including DiMaggio, Mantle, Maris, Martin, Jeter, and Williams. Yankees fans will love Bombers, but this is a book for all baseball fans, one that illuminates baseball history the way it happened on the field, in the stands, and in the hearts of players and fans.

Before They Were the Bombers

Before They Were the Bombers
Author: Jim Reisler
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476605548

Many histories of the New York Yankees only skim the early years in their rush to pick up with the 1919 season when Babe Ruth joined the team and go on to celebrate the careers of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford, and the team's World Series titles. But what about the Yankees before these big names? The early Yankees, who spent their first 12 years known as the Highlanders and were occasionally known as the Americans and the Invaders, get the attention they deserve in this work. It tells the story up until the sale of the Yankees in December 1914, beginning with 1903 when the team was formed from the remnants of the Baltimore Orioles. Led by future Hall of Famers "Wee" Willie Keeler, Jack Chesbro, and Clark Griffith, they were the most expensive major league team ever assembled--but they are remembered primarily for their terrible failures, which included losing a club-low 103 games in 1908 and finishing 55 games out of first place in 1912. Yes, the Yankees.

Crazy '08

Crazy '08
Author: Cait N. Murphy
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0061844322

Crazy ’08 is simply a delight, required reading for all fans of baseball in Chicago. — --Chicago Tribune “If you are any kind of fan, you ought to relish and revel in this wonderful book” — --Washington Times A penetrating look at the dead-ball era, when the game truly was the national pastime. A- — --Entertainment Weekly “picturesque details are what make...Crazy ‘08 such a fun and revealing journey through the early days of baseball.” — --Sports Illustrated “Entertaining and meticulously researched.” — Wall Street Journal “Beguiling” — Raleigh News & Observer “[A] rollicking tour... will fascinate students of baseball... cause today’s Cub fans to experience an unaccustomed feeling---pride...” — New York Times Book Review “[W]orthy to stand alongside The Glory of Their Times..., out in front.” — Raleigh News & Observer

Strategic Bombing by the United States in World War II

Strategic Bombing by the United States in World War II
Author: Stewart Halsey Ross
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476616116

The United States relied heavily on bombing to defeat the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, and air raids were touted as "precision" bombing in American propaganda. But was precision possible over cloud-covered Europe or a darkened Japanese countryside? Could the vaunted Norden optical bombsight in fact "drop bombs into pickle barrels" as advertised? Were the American aircrews well trained and well protected? How good were their airplanes? What were the results of the costly raids? This work sets suppositions against facts surrounding the United States' use of strategic bombing in World War II. Chapters cover the events leading up to World War II; the start of the war; the seers and the planners; the airplanes, bombs, bombsights, and aircrews; the planes Germany used to defend itself against American planes; the five cities (Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki) that experienced the most destruction; and the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of the damage done by aerial bombing. The book also probes the government's myth-building statements that supported America's view of itself as a uniquely humanitarian nation, and analyzes the role played by interservice rivalry--"battleship admirals" against "bomber generals."

Before I Forget

Before I Forget
Author: Brian Tesler
Publisher: Mind Advertising
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2006
Genre: East End (London, England)
ISBN: 0955451507

From The Battle of Britain to Bombing Hitler's Berchtesgaden

From The Battle of Britain to Bombing Hitler's Berchtesgaden
Author: Michael Bazin
Publisher: Air World
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1399066943

It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939. Britain had been at war with Germany for more than a month and for only the second time the Luftwaffe had dared to enter British airspace – and at last James ‘Jim’ Bazin’s chance had come. After joining the RAF in 1935, Jim was an experienced pilot when war broke out and he was eager to test his skills against the enemy. This first combat was the start of a career which saw Wing Commander Bazin, as he was to become, being posted to France with 607 (County of Durham) Squadron. He fought there until the last days of the Battle of France. In the course of the campaign, Bazin had battled his way to becoming an ace. He was also shot down behind enemy lines, but successfully evaded capture to return to his squadron and resume the fight. There was no respite for Bazin as he was once again in the air defending Britain’s skies in his trusty Hurricane as the Luftwaffe sort to destroy Fighter Command in the summer of 1940. With ten ‘kills’ to his name, Jim Bazin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in October that year. But merely driving off the Luftwaffe was not enough for him. He was posted to Inverness where he served as a Controller in 14 Group’s Operations Room, which gave him a taste for offensive operations. In time, Bazin volunteered to move to Bomber Command. He duly undertook a conversion course in 1943, eventually joining 49 Squadron as a Lancaster pilot to take the war to the very heart of the enemy. After commanding 49 Squadron, including taking part in Bomber Command’s support of the D-Day landings, Bazin was promoted to Wing Commander, leading 9 Squadron on many attacks on special targets such as U-boat pens, viaducts, refineries and, most notably, operating with the famous Dambusters against Hitler’s great battleship Tirpitz. Unrelenting in his efforts against the enemy, Jim Bazin was involved in operations against targets in Poland and Germany right up until the end of the war. This culminated in the last major RAF operation of the Second World War when, on 25 April 1945, Bomber Command attacked the Berghof, Hitler’s Alpine retreat, and other targets in Berchtesgaden. Jim Bazin was awarded the DSO in September 1945 – rightful recognition for a man who had done so much to bring about the defeat of the enemy.

The Bomber Redemtion August-September 2020

The Bomber Redemtion August-September 2020
Author: Ben Samuel
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 159858491X

This book tells a futuristic story of how drastic changes in American society influenced the character development of a man who had been a psychopathic youth. As a teenager, he had been a social outcast who set off bombs. Following circumstances, which led to a Moslem takeover of the United States, his continuing skills as a bomb-maker become instrumental in removing the occupiers from the country. To the few who knew him, he becomes a national hero. This book also describes acts of terrorism by American insurgents against the Moslem occupiers, their families, and sympathizers thus mirroring the situation the United States finds itself currently in with the terrorists of Iraq and Afghanistan To many faithful Moslems, Americans are seen as invaders who have occupied their lands. They see insurgents fighting against the governments that support the Americans as noble warriors trying to free their land. But Americans see these Iraqis as terrorists. History provides various examples of how acts of terrorism can be rationalized as justified by those in whose name they were committed, whether Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, or atheists. Some present-day Americans support doing the same to non-believers in democracy. They disregard the truth that it is one's frame of reference that defines who the "good guys" are and who the "bad guys" are. Native Americans, once regarded as savages and barbarians, are now seen by many non-Native Americans as the exploited victims of the civilized Christian Europeans. These supposedly well-meaning Christians tried to save the souls of the "uncivilized' heathens they encountered in the New World by killing them and destroying their homes. The author is a 79 year old war veteran confined to a wheelchair. Before suffering a stroke, he had been a psychologist in private practice and in hospitals, working with a variety of patients, including psychopaths. His present work is a follow-up on what happened to the maladjusted youth he had written about in a 1985 novel, called "Bomber " using the pen name of Ben Samuel. The author has had a longstanding interest in how one's society defines and judges behavior. He has written articles about this subject for professional journals. In 2005, he wrote a two-volume non-fiction work concerning social values, namely the interaction between money and health in America. Profits of this book are to go to Doctors Without Borders and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale

The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Morale Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1947
Genre: Bombing, Aerial
ISBN:

Examines the willingness and capacity of the Japanese to work and sacrifice to win the war, and how those attitudes changed as a result of the American bombing campaigns, including the atomic bombs, directed at the nation as a whole.