by Paul Kennedy
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INTERNET SOURCES
http://www.cebudanderson.com/droptanks.htm The memoir of Donald W. Marner, a mechanic serving a Mustang squadron based in Suffolk in 1944–45.
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Credits
PHOTOS
The Casablanca Conference, January 1943 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Sinking British Merchant Ship (Getty Images)
Suda Bay (Imperial War Museum, London)
German Panzers in Ukraine, September 1941 (Ullstein Bild/The Granger Collection, New York)
Direct hit of B-17 over Germany (Jim Highland, 487th Bomb Group)
The Dieppe Raid, August 1942 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Tarawa, November 1943 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Battle of Midway, June 1942 (Getty Images)
Battle of El Alamein, September 1942 (Imperial War Museum, London)
SS Ohio arriving at Malta, August 1942 (Ian Marshall)
American soldiers landing in Casablanca, November 1942 (Getty Images)
The Cavity Magnetron (Imperial War Museum, London)
Vickers Wellington bomber (E G Bowen, Radar Days. Bristol Adam Hilger, 1987, p. 110)
HMS Mermaid (Private Collection)
The Hedgehog on the HMS Westcott (Imperial War Museum, London)
USS Bogue (United States National Archives)
Capt. F. J. Walker (Imperial War Museum, London)
The Leigh Light (Imperial War Museum, London)
PBY Catalina (Imperial War Museum, London)
USS Wasp loading Spitfires in the Clyde (Ian Marshall)
HMS Victorious joining USS Saratoga in Noumea Bay (Ian Marshall)
USS Essex, May 1943 (United States National Archives)
HMS Anson, Tyneside (Ian Marshall)
Rasputitsa in the Eastern Front (AKG-Images, London)
Battle of Kursk (AKG-Images, London)
Early T-34 tank (IB-Russian State Archives of Cine-Photo Documents)
Advanced T-34/85 tank (AKG-Images, London)
German Heinkel 111s (Imperial War Museum, London)
Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Getty Images)
RAF Lancaster bomber (Getty Images)
Wreck of battleship Tirpitz (Getty Images)
B-17 with fighter cover (United States Air Force Archives)
B-29 Superfortress (National Museum of the US Air Force)
Ronnie Harker (Rolls-Royce plc Archives)
Packard Merlin is lowered into a P-51 (Paul A. Ludwig, Development of the P-51 Long-Range Escort Fighter Mustang. Hersham, Surrey, Ian Allan Printing Ltd, 2003, p. 89)
Captain Pete Ellis (United States Marine Corps Archives)
Guadalcanal, September 1942 (Getty Images)
Major General Sir Percy Hobart (Imperial War Museum, London)
Hobart’s Funnies (Imperial War Museum, London)
Admiral Ben Moreell (United States Naval Institute)
Mulberry harbor, Arromanches, June 1944 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Messerschmitt Me 262 (Getty Images)
Me 262 with bombs (Manfred Jurleit, Strahljäger Me 262 im Einsatz. Berlin Transpress, 1993, p. 90)
Montgomery and Zhukov in Berlin (Getty Images)
German prisoners of war marching (Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archives at Krasnogorsk)
MAPS
“Location of Merchant Ships of the British Empire, November 1937” (original title “British Empire Shipping, 1937,” image F0516) © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced by permission of Royal Museums Greenwich
“The North Atlantic Air Gap and Convoys” based on a map from Convoy by John Winton (London: Michael Joseph, 1983). Adapted by permission of The Estate of John Winton
“Fighter Command Control Network, Circa 1940” based on a map from The Battle by Richard Overy. Adapted by permission of W. W. Norton and Penguin Books UK
“Increasing Escort Fighter Range” based on a map from Luftwaffe by Williamson Murray. Adapted by permission of The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America.
Anglo-American Armies Advance in Northern Africa and Southern Italy (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
The Rapid German Expansion in the East, July–December 1941 (Wikicommons)
Red Army Advances During Operation Bagration, June–August 1944 (Department of History, United States Military Academy)
British Landings in Madagascar, May 1942 (Sigrid von Wendel)
The Anglo-American Maritime Routes for Operation Torch, November 1942 (Sigrid von Wendel)
The D-Day Invasions, June 6, 1944 (Department of History, United States Military Academy)
The Japanese Empire’s Expansion at Its Peak, 1942 (Department of History, United States Military Academy)
The Four Options for Allied Counterattack Against Tokyo After 1942–1943 (Sigrid von Wendel)
The Geography of History: Allied Positional Assets in World War II (Sigrid von Wendel)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PAUL KENNEDY is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He earned his B.A. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. Since 1983, he has been the Dilworth Professor of History and director of international security studies at Yale University. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Kennedy is the author and editor of nineteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, followed by Preparing for the Twenty-first Century (1993) and The Parliament of Man (2006).