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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Description
A minute-by-minute account--researched from almost a hundred eyewitnesses, cockpit voice recordings, and official documents--which amounts to a definitive reconstruction of the most intense, dawn-to-dark aerial action in the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Buddy hadn't always been on this specific career path. He was an ordinary farm boy from Iowa when the Japanese bombing at Pearl Harbor devastated an entire nation. Buddy, like so many other young men, decided to fight for his country and his family. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps. As Buddy adjusted to life in the military and trained to become a fighter pilot, each moment was faithfully recreated for his family back home. He wrote honestly about...
4) Drone warrior: an elite soldier's inside account of the hunt for America's most dangerous enemies
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1989].
Language
English
Description
American paratroopers have always been a special breed of warrior. Geronimo focuses on human drama plus strategy clashes that took place within the Allied airborne command. The story ranges from North Africa to Sicily, from the jungles of the Philippines to the beaches of Normandy.
6) Taxi dancer
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on an elite corps of jet pilots who flew controversial and highly dangerous bombing raids over North Vietnam. Captain Barney South has flown ninety hazardous missions. He has already used up more than his fair share of luck. With ten more missions to go, he doesn't need the brand of flak he's been getting from the brass, who have more use for dead heroes than live troublemakers. And now they're offering him a long shot the most important...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, "--Amazon.com.
8) Wings
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Will a chance meeting in a time of war change her life forever? Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval -- even marry a man she doesn't love. While Allie has nearly resigned herself to that fate, Lt. Walter Novak -- fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women -- takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. Walt and Allie meet and begin a correspondence that...
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Covers, among others: Curtiss P-36; Lockheed P-38 Lightning; Bell P-39 Airacobra; Curtiss P-40; Republic P-47 Thunderbolt; North American P-51 Mustang; Northrop P-61 Black Widow; Bell P-63 Kingcobra.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot. In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Collected by one of the forty-nine members of class 44-W-2, Jean Hascall Cole's interviews with her former classmates document their valuable contribution to the history of women, aviation, and the military. Women Pilots of World War II presents a rare look at the personal experiences of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) by recording the adventures from one of eighteen classes of women to graduate from the Army Air Forces flight training...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The bomber campaign against Germany is one of the most contentious of World War II. Was anything achieved by the deaths of thousands of German civilians-many of them women and children? Or were all means justified against Nazi Germany? Acclaimed military historian Robin Neillands examines every detail of the allied campaign led by British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris: the strengths and fundamental flaws, the technical difficulties...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In 1940 seven Americans volunteered for the British Royal Air Force in time to fly and fight in the Battle of Britain. Within a year, by the time the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States abruptly into World War II, 243 other Americans flew for the Royal Air Force in three Eagle Squadrons, units that in early 1942 became the nucleus of the United States Army Air Force's 4th Fighter Group. American combat in the European and Mediterranean...
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