Return of the Dambusters
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The Dambusters were the go-to forces for dangerous precision attacks: They bombed Hitler's prize battleship, Tirpitz, as well as rocket sites, weapon strongholds, and the dams at the heart of the industrial Ruhr; they targeted enemy leaders including Hitler and Mussolini; and they created a false fleet on D-day, which fooled the Germans. But they also suffered brutal losses, with 75 percent of 617 Squadron killed in action by the end of the war.
In this awe-inspiring audiobook, John Nichol, himself a former RAF flight lieutenant, retraces the path of 617 Squadron's most dangerous sorties, the ones largely lost to history. Including personal stories of the surviving Dambusters, Return of the Dambusters is a tense, poignant story of courage by men who braved death in the name of freedom.
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Jay A. Stout breaks new ground in World War II history with this gripping account of one of the war’s most highly decorated American fighter groups. Stout combines the storytelling gifts and careful research for a seasoned historian with the combat experience of a former fighter pilot to tell the remarkable story of the 352nd Fighter Group. This isn’t just the story of a single fighter group; it’s the story of how the United States won the air war over Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a fantastic, through, in depth, and personal history of the 352nd fighter group.
- De S. H. Moore en 02-23-21
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Jayhawk
- Love, Loss, Liberation and Terror over the Pacific
- De: Jay A. Stout, George L. Cooper
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper is one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just another flag-waving story of air combat, Jayhawk describes the war as it really was - a conflict with far-reaching tentacles that gripped and tore at not only the combatants, but also their families, friends, and the way they lived their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute must for any student of the Pacific Air War
- De Ginger en 10-07-20
De: Jay A. Stout, y otros
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Unsung Eagles
- True Stories of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II
- De: Jay A. Stout
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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The nearly half-million American air crewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men who - in the aggregate - actually won it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great look into what so many gave for & to us.
- De Duane en 08-02-21
De: Jay A. Stout
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Vulcan 607
- De: Rowland White
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 56
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Shoulder to shoulder with Strategic Air Command B-52s throughout the Cold War, the big delta-winged Vulcans of the Britain's V-bomber force faced down the Soviet threat to the West. In 1982, they were just months from retirement when they flew in anger for the first time. It was to be a record-breaking mission of breathtaking audacity: a single bomber launched from a remote island airbase to carry out what would be the longest-range air attack in history. An 8,000-mile round-trip.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, incredibly gripping and entertaining
- De MortonC en 09-10-24
De: Rowland White
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The Last Zero Fighter
- De: Dan King
- Narrado por: Drew Bott
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45
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Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of the pivotal battles of the Pacific War including; USS Panay, Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Rabaul, Port Darwin, Indian Ocean Raid, Ceylon, Midway, Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the kamikaze in the Philippines, the home defense and the dropping of the atomic bomb. Includes an introduction to the Japanese pilot training system for both officers and enlisted men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and humanizing story
- De courtney mckean en 07-03-23
De: Dan King
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Race of Aces
- WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky
- De: John R. Bruning
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" - the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker - offered a bottle of bourbon to the first US fighter pilot to break his record of 26 enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to call the "race of aces" as a way of boosting the spirits of his war-weary command.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Boring, confusing storyline, some technical details wrong
- De ATM en 04-09-20
De: John R. Bruning
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Operation Chastise
- The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wish He Had Stuck to the Core Story
- De John en 06-22-20
De: Max Hastings
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The Fighting Corsairs
- The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII
- De: Jeff Dacus
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943, when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the marines who lived, and died, during the toughest battles of the entire war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Fighting Corsairs
- De Thomas S. Connelly en 05-10-21
De: Jeff Dacus
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I Flew for the Führer
- The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot
- De: Heinz Knoke, Richard Overy - introduction
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid firsthand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs and is a fascinating counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting wish it had a bit more detail
- De Quinn Richter en 05-21-21
De: Heinz Knoke, y otros
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The Mighty Eighth
- The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
- De: Gerald Astor
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
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Europe has fallen. Pearl Harbor is in flames. Enter: the Eighth. In 1941 the RAF fought a desperate battle of survival against the Luftwaffe over Britain. Then, from across the Atlantic, came a new generation of American pilots, gunners, and bombardiers, a new generation of flying machines called the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-51 Mustang fighter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Listen with 1 problem
- De Matthew Schuller en 08-23-19
De: Gerald Astor
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Inferno
- De: Joe Pappalardo
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story of a not-so-heroic “hero”.
- De Bikeman476 en 08-09-22
De: Joe Pappalardo
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Enola Gay
- Mission to Hiroshima
- De: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor reader
- De Dee en 04-17-22
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
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Big Week
- The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle of attrition to neutralize the Luftwaffe as a fighting force prior to the cross-channel invasion, planned for a few months later. Officially called Operation ARGUMENT, this aerial offensive quickly became known as “Big Week,” and it was one of the turning-points of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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War in the Air: Sets stage with gripping narrative
- De Nashville Cat en 11-17-18
De: James Holland
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War's End
- An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
- De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, James A. Antonucci - contributor, Marion K. Antonucci - contributor
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a 25-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion.... The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent History
- De Bill en 02-19-25
De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, y otros
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Kangaroo Squadron
- American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II
- De: Bruce Gamble
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single US Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support, the squadron's pilots and combat crew endured tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the outfit, dubbed the Kangaroo Squadron, proved remarkably resilient and successful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 star History!
- De DON COOKE en 03-13-19
De: Bruce Gamble
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Luck of the Draw
- My Story of the Air War in Europe
- De: Frank Murphy, Chloe Melas, Elizabeth Murphy
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Murphy, Jonas Moore, Chloe Melas
- Duración: 12 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 70
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Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and a further 17,650 made the ultimate sacrifice. Luck of the Draw is more than a war story. It’s the incredible, inspiring story of Frank Murphy, one of the few survivors from the 100th Bombardment Group, who cheated death for months in a German POW camp.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Personal Accounting that the Narrator Destroyed
- De David Sajben en 03-09-23
De: Frank Murphy, y otros
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Harrier 809
- The Epic Story of How a Small Band of Heroes Won Victory in the Air Against Impossible Odds
- De: Rowland White
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. In response, Britain dispatches a naval Task Force. Eight thousand miles from home, its fate hinges on just 20 Sea Harrier fighters against the 200-strong might of the Argentine Air Force. Combining groundbreaking research with the pace of a thriller, Rowland White reveals the full story of the fleet's knife-edge fight for survival for the first time, and shows how the little jump jet went from airshow novelty to writing its name in aviation legend. And of how a small band of heroes won victory against impossible odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fast paced thriller
- De J.Brock en 01-28-22
De: Rowland White
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Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story
- North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
- De: Chuck Gross
- Narrado por: Gerry Burke
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. Soon after the war, Gross wrote down his adventures, while his memory was still fresh with the events. Rattler One-Seven (his call sign) is written as he experienced it, using these notes along with letters written home to accurately preserve the mindset he had while in Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Best Helicopter books I've listened to!
- De Chad en 02-12-14
De: Chuck Gross
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Return of the Dambusters
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- Lol
- 02-07-21
An excellent engaging read
A great read detailing the exploits of the storied 617 squadron.
Well researched, and engaging, highly recommended.
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- trillian wright-johnson
- 08-13-23
One of my favorite WW2 reads
Face it, you would rather read about an elite squadron rather than a middle of the road squadron (unless you are a serious or semi-serious historian. This book does not disappoint. Good balance between big picture and accounts of trying to get out of an aircraft going down. Does provide accounts of girlfriends, fear factor, pranks, superstition and the like. The four stars of the performance reflects a good reading, but not memorable
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