1939-1945 - Aerial operations
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$7.99 Read moreIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1481449397
- Language: English
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Knife’s Edge: South Pacific Carrier Battles from the Eastern Solomons to Santa Cruz
$41.95 Read moreWhile the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife… [more below]
- Author: Stern, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682475689
- Language: English
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My Darling Boys: A Family at War, 1941-1947 Volume 23
$34.95 Read moreMy Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir
- Author: Allison, Fred H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419064
- Language: English
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Pby Catalina: Consolidated’s Flying Boat in WWII
$24.99 Read moreThe PBY Catalina, designed and produced by Consolidated Aircraft, whose production was supplemented by that of Boeing Canada, Canadian Vickers, and the Naval Aircraft Factory, was the most widely used… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #58
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366459
- Language: English
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Under a War-Torn Sky
$12.99 Add to cartWounded and alone behind enemy lines, a young pilot must find his way to freedom in this gripping, beloved novel
When Henry Forester is shot down during a bombing run over France, the World War II pil… [more below]- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0786817534
- Language: English
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Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper’s 35 Combat Missions Over Germany
$24.99 Read moreAt 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper’s defer… [more below]
- Author: Cullen, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367064
- Language: English
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Baa, Baa Black Sheep
$11.00 Read moreHere, in his own words, is the true story of America’s wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all–the fight to survive.
The World War II air war in the Pacif- Author: Boyington, Gregory
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0553263501
- Language: English
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World War II Pilots: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartAir raid The world’s great powers are at war again. This is the Second World War, but it is history’s first war in which airplanes play a major role. You want to fly and you want to fight. Will you: … [more below]
- Series: You Choose Books (Paperback)
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 162065718X
- Language: English
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1481449389
- Language: English
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Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend–with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1557509948
- Language: English
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Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
$29.99 Read moreLate in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refug… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Charles E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 168451262X
- Language: English
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d
- Author: Mansfield, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 149308108X
- Language: English
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Lake Michigan’s Aircraft Carriers
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aircraft carrier training during WWII.
Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qu
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Somers, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0738532088
- Language: English
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Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner’s Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
$18.99 Add to cartJoe Pappalardo’s Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military ca
- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1250264251
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$38.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0316309850
- Language: English
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Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
$20.00 Add to cartIn a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to… [more below]
- Author: Frank, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141001461
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartNovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes–only to be met by … [more below]
- Author: Heimann, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033259
- Language: English
