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Flak in World War II /

Historian Donald Nijboer relies on firsthand accounts, newly discovered files, photographs, diagrams and maps to reveal the forgotten contribution of flak guns in World War II, from doctrine and tactics to combat stories on the ground and in the air about what it was like to fly into the teeth of an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nijboer, Donald, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, [2018]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Antiaircraft artillery operations.
Antiaircraft guns > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Table of Contents:
  • World War I
  • the guns turn skyward 1914-1919
  • Between the wars
  • theory and practice collide
  • The AA battle over Europe 1939-1940
  • The Battle of Britain : AA Command's forgotten contribution
  • Protecting the fleet
  • Flak over Germany : defense in depth
  • Tactical air : flak over the battlefield
  • Battling the V-1 flying bomb
  • Armageddon in the Pacific.