World War II: Army (Edge: Action Force)
John Townsend
Language: English
Pages: 32
ISBN: 1445126273
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Inside Army: The armies of World War II - Jungle battles - Panzer attack - Infantry weapons - Dunkirk - Artillery weapons - D-Day - North Africa, plus much more! Get tough with some of World War II's fighting men and units. From battlefield frontlines to navalconvoys, from secret missions to aerial dogfights, Action Force brings together the people,weapons, vehicles, the stats and the facts in oneall-action World War II series. You want action packed? Read Action Force!
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Roosevelt in 1942. The OSS collected secrets about countries at war with the United States. In total, a team of 16,000 US agents worked behind enemy lines. At the end of the war, the OSS became the CIA. WOMEN SPIES Some of the most daring spies of World War II were women. Female spies were some times dropped by parachute into occupied Europe. They went as part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), set up by the British government in 1940. By disguising themselves as peasant women, the.
Of German aircraft crossing the English Channel and North Sea. This gave the Royal Air Force (RAF) time to send up fighter planes to attack the approaching bombers. MINIATURE RADAR By 1940, radar technology had advanced to the point where very small objects could be detected from long distances. Small radar antennae on Allied bombers greatly improved the accuracy of bombing raids on German cities. Aircraft could now detect objects as small as a submarine periscope, allowing ships or bombers.
Jones was a British scientist who played a crucial role in the Battle of the Beams. On Jones’s advice, the British began to counter the German radio signals with their own. Jones also suggested that pieces of metal foil falling through the air would create radar echoes and confuse the enemy. These falling clouds of foil became known as “chaff.” SECRET WEAPONS: HITLER’S MISSILES By 1941, Nazi leaders were becoming concerned about the rising losses of German planes and pilots on air raids.
300 escape attempts were made during the war, and 30 POWs succeeded in getting back to their home countries. TUNNELING TO FREEDOM Somehow, the prisoners at Stalag Luft III managed to keep their operation secret. When German guards eventually discovered one of the tunnels, the operation appeared doomed. But another of the tunnels was completed soon afterward and on March 24, 1944, 76 prisoners escaped. However, only three of them managed to evade recapture and get back home. RAID AT LOS.
Convincing people that German and Japanese aggression was a threat to the United States. After the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the public no longer needed convincing of this. Propaganda then turned to encouraging people to increase production and conserve resources for the war effort. IN THEIR OWN WORDS Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime prime minister, was famous for his stirring speeches to the nation on the radio. He helped to raise spirits and.