Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Turning The Tide (MP3-Download)

The USAAF in North Africa and Sicily Ungekürzte Lesung. 1 Min.
Sprecher: Ragland, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II. In 1942, the Western Allies needed to take the offensive against the Axis to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union. With planning for a cross-Channel invasion beset by logistical and operational difficulties, in May 1942 President Roosevelt ordered his military leaders to prepare to support the British in the Mediterranean. This led to the first USAAF units arriving in the Middle East in July, firstly as reinforcements for the British and later as part of the Operation Torch landings in French Morocco and Algeria in November. In little over ten months from the summer of 1942, the USAAF in North Africa grew from nothing to a senior partner, providing aircraft and crews the other Allies were unable to match. The Axis forces that had controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean had been swept from the African continent – thanks in no small part to the efforts of the USAAF. Using first-hand accounts from pilots and other aircrew, Tom Cleaver describes how the USAAF units that landed in Morocco were forced to learn their own lessons in combat with veteran Luftwaffe units, and how the experience gained in the skies over North Africa and Sicily was invaluable in developing the air forces that would dominate the skies over Europe in the latter years of the war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Osprey Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472860248
• Artikelnr.: 70746153

Autorenporträt

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps
Foreword by Richard P. Hallion
Author's Preface
Chapter One: The Mad Dash
Chapter Two: 1942 - The Lowest Year
Chapter Three: First in the Blue
Chapter Four: El Alamein
Chapter Five: Opponents
Chapter Six: Airwar over Casablanca
Chapter Seven: Race to Tunisia
Chapter Eight: Bomber Boys
Chapter Nine: Kasserine Pass
Chapter Ten: Tunisgrad
Chapter Eleven: Pantelleria
Chapter Twelve: Air War over Sicily
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Rezensionen

This is a story of high drama and high heroism, told by a master of military aviation history. Once again, Tom Cleaver has given us a work that both informs and entertains, and which makes a substantial and lasting contribution to military aviation historiography.