Martin W Bowman: 29 books
We Were Eagles Volume One
The Eighth Air Force at War July 1942 to November 1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time. It was a small operation involving six US crews in Boston medium bombers, but was nonetheless a harbinger of things to come. The first heavy bombardment group of B-17s had crossed the Atlantic in June...
Fighter Bases of WW II US 8th Army Air Force Fighter Command USAAF 1943-45
P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang Squadrons in East Anglia, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This book covers the bases used during the Second World War by the American fighter units that flew in support of the 8th Air Force’s heavy bomber forces.
The long-range Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustangs escorted the Mighty Eighth’s Flying Fortresses and Liberators on their deep penetration...
by Martin W. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Guy Gibson’s 617 Squadron was founded for one reason only – Operation Chastise – the raid on the Ruhr dams. Using Barnes Wallis’ revolutionary bouncing bomb, the hand-picked crews trained day and night over British reservoirs, perfecting the techniques required to deliver the new weapon to...
Legend of the Lancasters
The Bomber War from England 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This book is a riveting account told in ten big chapters of the young RAF crews who flew Lancasters in RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe in April 1945. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF aircrew and German night fighter crews who...
The Reich Intruders
RAF Light Bomber Raids in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
This is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito aircraft that carried out many daring daylight and night-time raids on vitally important targets in Nazi occupied Europe and Germany. These were not the famous thousand...
Lancaster
Reaping the Whirlwind
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The narrative description and condensed history of the Lancaster’s construction, combat career and post-war service, bought together to tell the complete, concise history of the world’s most famous aircraft of all time and undoubtedly the finest bomber of World War 2. A superlative colour section...
US Eighth Air Force in Europe
Eager Eagles 19410 Summer 1943 Going Over, Gaining Strength- Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Using narrative accounts and new insights this book catalogues the dramatic and first-hand oral testimonies of the US Army Air Corps' bomber crews of the newly created Eighth Air Force that became stationed in East Anglia in 1942.
It begins with shock of the unannounced Japanese attack on Pearl...
by Martin W. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The versatile "wooden wonder" of World War II, with stories of the pilots and navigators who carried out daring wartime operations The Mosquito was for many the perfect synthesis of power and beauty and arguably the most versatile of all Allied aircraft built during World War II, and this...
Bombers Fly East
WWII RAF Operations in the Middle and Far East
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Highlights include several chapters on the Mediterranean air forces, with special emphasis placed on the brave but futile attempts of the South African Air Force Liberator crews in Italy to supply Polish patriots during the Warsaw uprising. Individual chapters covering various aspects of the war in...
by Martin W Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The US Air Force then realized that the Navy had an aircraft that was far better than any tactical aircraft in their inventory and ordered 543 F-4C variants....
We Were Eagles Volume Three
The Eighth Air Force at War June to October 1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Volume 3 of We Were Eagles covers the turning of the tide, when the air war was redirected to bombing communications targets in northern France in support of the 6 June D-Day invasion and the eventual breakout by Allied forces from the beachheads. Once the Normandy battle was won, missions were resumed...
Duxford and the Big Wings 1940-45
RAF and USAAF Fighter Pilots at War
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs during 1940-45. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF, German and American ‘Eagles’ who fought in the skies over England in the Battle...
We Were Eagles Volume Four
The Eighth Air Force at War November 1944 to May 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Volume 4 of We Were Eagles reaches the climax of the daylight bomber war which saw the Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s push back the boundaries and huge fleets of bombers penetrate further into the diminishing Reich. The war dragged on and it was obvious hostilities would not end by Christmas 1944....
by Martin W. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A pocket-sized, stunningly illustrated guide to one of the most famous military operations of all time—D-DayJune 6, 1944 is a day that is emblazoned in history; the first day of the Allied Operation Overlord—the mass invasion of Normandy. Planned for many months and executed swiftly, these landings...