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Rocky Boyer's War: An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 658min

During 1944, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines, Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney, discarding pre-war doctrine, planned and ran an "air blitz" offensive. His 5th Air Force drove forward like a tank army, crash-landing in open country, seizing terrain, bulldozing new airfields, winning air control, and moving forward. At airfields on the front line, Rocky Boyer kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. Diaries were forbidden, but Rocky kept one-full of casualties, accidents, off-duty shenanigans, and rear-area snafus. He wrote about wartime camp life at Nadzab, New Guinea, the largest air base in the world, part Scout camp and part frontier boomtown. He knew characters worthy of Catch-22: combat flyers who played contract bridge, military brass who played office politics, black quartermasters, and chaplains who stood up to colonels when a promotion party ended with drunken gunplay and dynamite. This is a narrative of the war as airmen lived it. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008395/bk_tant_008395_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Desert Raiders (SAS Operation) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS face the might of Rommel's army and win? In the North African desert in 1941, the war is being won by the brilliant German commander General Rommel, and the British are in retreat on all fronts. A young British army lieutenant, David Stirling, believes that the only way to reverse this situation is to attack the enemy behind their own lines, using small groups of men who can insert by land, sea or air as required. The first of these men are dropped by parachute to attack enemy airfields in the Gazala area, but the raid is a disaster, with many lives lost. The following year, the survivors of that operation, now working hand in hand with the Long Range Desert Group, mount a series of spectacular raids in heavily armed jeeps against airfields in the Benghazi region, destroying nearly a hundred enemy aircraft, leaving the German army reeling and reversing the course of the war. Desert Raiders is the colourful story of the birth of the SAS, the most renowned regiment in the history of the British Army - forged with fire and steel in the vast, sun-scorched plains of the North African desert, pitting themselves against the might of the formerly invincible German army and gaining a reputation that would make them a legend in their own time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002290/bk_hcuk_002290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Beneath Another Sun , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min

Internationally bestselling author Robert Radcliffe’s World War II novel Beneath Another Sun tells the story of a young fighter pilot’s odyssey from England’s grass airfields to the jungles of Thailand. Based on true events, the journey covers fighter ops over Suffolk, Mediterranean convoys, the code breakers of Bletchley Park, and the surrender of Singapore, to climax with the living nightmare of the Burma-Thailand railway. An unsparing account of the brutality of war, Beneath Another Sun is also a powerful tale of courage, redemption and love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Mawson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020101/bk_acx0_020101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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First World Flight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1067min

In 1924, three years before Lindbergh flew to Paris, four young army airmen answered the call of General Billy Mitchell to save US aviation from destruction by the politicians by winning the race with a dozen other nations to make the first flight around the world. In primitive open-cockpit biplanes powered by unreliable engines and few airfields, they were given little chance of success or even survival. This is the untold epic story of American patriotism, valor, and can-do ingenuity which triumphed over adversity and led to aviation dominance for the balance of the century - and the forgotten heroes that made it happen. Over 15 years of research, including the first access ever to the private Donald Douglas collection of Aviation memorabilia including worldwide newspaper accounts, diaries and logs of the aviators, have gone into the writing of this remarkable story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094572/bk_acx0_094572_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo: Aviation Classics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 399min

In Ted W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Lawson gives a vivid eyewitness account of the unorthodox assignment that 85 intrepid volunteer airmen - the “Tokyo Raiders” - under the command of celebrated flier James H. Doolittle executed in April 1942. The plan called for 16 B-25 twin-engine medium bombers of the Army Air Corps to take off from the aircraft carrier Hornet, bomb industrial targets in Japan, and land at airfields in China. While the raid came off flawlessly, completely surprising the enemy, a shortage of fuel caused by an early departure, bad weather, and darkness took a heavy toll of the raiders. For many, the escape from China proved a greater ordeal. Peter B. Mersky provides new information on the genesis of the raid, places it in the context of the early operations against Japan, and updates Ted Lawson’s biography.The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181723/bk_acx0_181723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rising Sea: A Pat Walsh Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 249min

It's a battle for dominance in the South China Sea - and Pat Walsh takes on his most daring operation yet.Tensions between China and the United States near the breaking point. The Chinese Navy has flexed its muscle in a series of unprovoked strikes against U.S. military air patrols, and the time has come to end their global advance.Under the guise of treasure hunters, Pat Walsh and his team of CIA mercenaries conduct a series of deep-water dives to plant explosives along a fault line in the Palawan Trench. The resulting tsunami will take out the airfields along the reef islands and cripple the Chinese menace.But Pat never accounted for finding millions in sunken pirate treasure - or that someone would discover the true catalyst behind the devastation.Now he must keep an ancient treasure out of enemy hands and find a way to survive a Chinese government bent on revenge.Listen to this standalone adventure thriller of non-stop sea action that spans Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Europe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jake Hunsbusher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160343/bk_acx0_160343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min

James "Jim" Davis lived what he considered "an impossible dream" as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly 30 missions in the European Theatre during World War II. In this memoir, Davis offers heart-wrenching detail concerning the difficulties of qualifying for the U.S. Army Air Forces pilot program, the strenuous nature of the pilot training program, the anxiety caused by a wartime marriage, and the dangers of flying combat missions over Nazi Germany. From his struggles to become a pilot, to seeing death up close on his first mission, to his expected deployment to the Pacific Theatre in the fall of 1945, Davis takes the listener through a fast-paced and exciting narrative adventure. He piloted his B-24 on missions over 20 German cities, including Cologne, Hamburg, Metz, and Munich, and attacked enemy airfields, airplane factories, railroad marshalling yards, ship yards, oil refineries, and chemical plants. Listeners of his memoir will come away with a much greater appreciation for the difficulties and dangers of the air war in World War II. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Woods. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058521/bk_acx0_058521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mission to Argentina (SAS Operation) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS prevent the launch of Exocet missiles at the British Task Force? May 1982: as the British Task Force prepares to retake the Falkland Islands, a lone Sea King helicopter makes an apparently forced landing in the southernmost reaches of Chile. The only threat to the Task Force - and the enemy's only hope of ultimate victory - is Argentina's Super Etendard aircraft and their sea-skimming Exocet missiles. Since radar cannot be relied upon, the British must opt for a less conventional warning system. Before landing in Chile, the 'stray' Sea King drops a team of men into Argentina, where they are tasked with remaining hidden within sight of the airfields and within easy reach of the enemy's security patrols. Getting the men in is easy enough, but staying unobserved is another matter - and eventual escape will be next to impossible.... Mission to Argentina tells the electrifying story of this SAS operation from the inside - a heart-stopping thriller about the regiment equalled by no other: the SAS! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Mace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002291/bk_hcuk_002291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Africa 1941: Raiding Forces, Book 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 526min

In book nine of the Raiding Forces series, US Lieutenant Colonel John Randal returns in Africa 1941. Lieutenant Colonel Randal has established a clandestine base at Oasis X on the far side of the Great Sand Sea from which to launch hit-and-run gun jeep raids on isolated enemy positions, airfields, and fuel tank farms up to a 1,000 miles behind the lines with Desert Patrol, while his Sea Squadron carry out amphibious pinprick commando raids off a landing craft tank along the Mediterranean coastline.Raiding Forces is also tasked with raiding the Italian roadhouses located every 15 miles along the only blacktopped road Rommel has in Africa, which runs from Tripoli to Tobruk, the Via Balbia. Lieutenant Commander Ian Flemming, RN, recruits Raiding Forces to conduct "pinch operations" targeted against remote Africa Korps weather stations to capture code books, keys, and signal devices that can be used by MI6 to penetrate the ultra-secret German Enigma machines. In addition, he has to spring Colonel Dudley Clarke from a Spanish prison and rescue his men being held in two Italian POW camps. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Miles Meili, Shauna MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221451/bk_acx0_221451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Operation Backhander: 1944 Battle for Cape Gloucester , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 104min

A gripping insight into the war for New Guinea and the operation for Cape Gloucester.Determined to capture a pivotal island in their war against the Japanese, the US 1st Marine Division was faced with a challenging task: to land on the fortified peninsula of Cape Gloucester and capture its two vital airfields.Taking the peninsula and the island of New Britain would give them a vital stepping stone in their campaign to push the Japanese out of New Guinea and the Bismarck Sea. Struggling through difficult terrain and enemy ambushes, the marines fought their way to the heart of the peninsula and captured the airfields. Offering a fascinating insight into the often-gruesome battles which marked the Pacific Theater, Operation Backhander presents a captivating account of the Allies’ struggle against the Japanese army.A must-listen for fans of WW2 Pacific naval history books, this riveting book sheds light on the campaign to capture Cape Gloucester, giving a day-by-day look into the beach landings, the skirmishes, and the months-long operation to force the Japanese into retreat and take this pivotal stepping stone for themselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James McSorley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229086/bk_acx0_229086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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