Turning The Tide
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-6026-2 (ISBN)
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In 1942, the Western Allies needed to take the offensive against the Axis powers to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union and President Roosevelt ordered his military leaders to support the British in the Mediterranean. This led to the first USAAF units arriving in the Middle East as reinforcements for the British in July and as part of the Operation Torch landings in French Morocco and Algeria in November.
This is the story of how, in only 11 months, the USAAF grew from these small beginnings in to become the senior partner in North Africa, providing aircraft and crews the other Allies were unable to match. In those 11 months, the Axis forces that had controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean had been swept from the African continent and the island of Sicily.
Using first-hand accounts from pilots and other aircrew, renowned aviation historian Tom Cleaver describes how the USAAF units that landed in 1942 faced an intense baptism of fire 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.
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his work including the best-selling Osprey titles 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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16-page plate section in b&w |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4728-6026-8 / 1472860268 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4728-6026-2 / 9781472860262 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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