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North American P-51 Mustang: A Photo
Chronicle Larry Davis. This book begins with
Mustang production in early 1941 and covers
all types in its variety of markings and warfronts.
Size:8.5”x11”•200bw/colorphotos•112pp.
ISBN:0-88740-411-1•soft•$19.95
Corsair: The Saga of the Legendary Bent-
Wing Fighter-BomberWalterA.Musciano.This
book describes the development of the legendary
F4U Corsair, and follows it into battle fromGuadal-
canal to the Indian Ocean, Central Pacific Ocean,
Korea, Africa, and Central America, and throughout
its lengthy military career into Korea. Also included
are chapters on the most decorated Corsair pilots,
surviving examples, detailed appendices, detailed
line schemes and maps.
Size:8.5”x11”•800color/bw images•400pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3232-6•hard•$79.99
Vega Ventura: The Operational Story of
Lockheed’s Lucky Star John C. Stanaway.
Fashioned from the Lockheed Model 18 airliner,
the Ventura went on to fight on nearly every WWII
battlefrontasapenetrationbomber,anti-submarine
patrol aircraft, reconnaissance bomber, and even
nightfighter.
Size:8.5”x11”•200bw/colorphotos•112pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0087-3•soft•$19.95
The Boeing XF8B-1 Fighter: Last
of the Line Jared A. Zichek. The Boeing
XF8B-1 “Five-in-One” fighter was the last
piston engine fighter built by Boeing and
nearly the last fighter built by the company
until its merger with McDonnell Douglas in
1997. This book contains an authoritative
text along with 100s of rare photos, draw-
ings, color profiles, artist’s impressions,
and extensive extracts from manuals.
Size:11”x8.5”•700bw/colorphotos•376pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-2587-6•hard•$59.95
Black Sunday: Ploesti! Michael Hill. Tidal
Wave! August 1, 1943. The legendary low-level
raid on Ploesti, Rumania by the 376th, 93rd, 44th,
389th and 98th Bomb Groups, is described by
author/historian Mike Hill in this large format book.
Size:9”x12”•350bwphotos•256pp.
ISBN:0-88740-519-3•hard•$59.99
U.S. ACES, BIOGRAPHIES, AND MEMOIRS
Fighter Aces of the USA: New Revised and
Expanded Edition Toliver & Constable. The
most complete book ever published on American
fighter aces, and includes dozens of aces’ combat
accounts, plus capsule biographies. Evolution of
aircraft, tactics and armament is seen through the
eyes of the 1400 elite Americans who earned the
coveted title “Ace.”
Size:9”x12”•850bwphotos•400pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0348-1•hard•$59.95
Gabby: A Fighter Pilot’s Life Gabreski &
Molesworth. Drawing on private documents and
photos, Gabreski, along with writer Molesworth,
tells his thrilling eyewitness story with a candor
and a vivid style that will earn this brave pilot a
whole new generation of admirers.
Size:8.5”x11”•200bw/colorphotos•176pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0442-9•hard•$45.00
Herky! The Memoirs of a Checker Ace
Herschel H. Green. The dramatic life story of one
of the legendary USAAF fighter pilots of WWII. By
the time Green was grounded by orders of higher
headquarters, he was the leading ace of the 15th
Air Force with eighteen aerial victories.
Size:8.5”x11”•150bwphotos•192pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0073-3•hard•$45.00
Happy Jack’s Go Buggy: A Fighter Pilot’s
Story Jack Ilfrey. Fly with Ilfrey in his P-38 as he
and his unit become the first group of American
aircraft to fly from the USA to England. Thrill to
the stories of aerial combat over North Africa as
Ilfrey becomes one of America’s first WWII aces.
Size:8.5”x11”•190bw/colorphotos•128pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0664-2•hard•$35.00
Eighty-One Aces of the 4th Fighter Group
Frank Speer. The 4th Fighter Group, armed with
P-51s and aggressive, seasoned pilots, battled
the Luftwaffe in the air and on the ground, achiev-
ing an impressive score of 1,016 German planes
destroyed, the highest score of all Allied Groups.
Size:8.5”x11”•150color/bwphotos•144pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3374-3•hard•$59.99
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Au-
tobiography of James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle
with C.V. Glines. Pilot, scholar, daredevil, general,
Doolittle was one of America’s greatest heroes.
Now, for the first time, here is his life story as only
Doolittle himself can tell it.
Size:6”x9”•72bwphotos•622pp.
ISBN:978-0-88740-737-6•hard•$29.99
Serenade to the Big Bird: A New Edition of
the Classic B-17 TributeBertStiles.Aftercom-
pleting a tour of duty in B-17s, Stiles transferred to
a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was
killed in action. His book portrays the tragedy of
war, and specifically the loss to the world of a fine,
sensitive, talented writer who had only a short time
to prove his merit.
Size:6”x9”•25bwphotos•160pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-1396-7•hard•$29.99
The Clay Pigeons: A B-17 Pilot’s Story
of WWII E. Helene Sage. This book is centered
around the author’s father’s WWII diary. Sage was
a B-17 pilot who flew twenty-nine missions out
of Thurleigh, England, as a member of the 8th Air
Force, 306th BG, 367th BS (“The Clay Pigeons”).
Size:6”x9”•100color/bwphotos•160pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3951-6•hard•$35.00
Whistling Death: The Test Pilot’s Story of
the F4U Corsair Boone T. Guyton. Whistling
Death is the true story, by the test pilot, of the rush
to produce the F4U Corsair, the Navy fighter that
brought America air superiority over the Japanese
Zero in WWII. Guyton, an experimental test pilot
at Chance Vought during and after WWII, flew
105 types of aircraft in forty-five years as a pilot.
Size:6”x9”•40bwphotos•288pp.
ISBN:978-0-88740-732-1•hard•$29.99
Paddles! The Foibles and Finesse of One
WWII Landing Signal Officer John A. Harper.
One young naval officer’s brief WWII career as
a carrier Landing Signal Officer. It begins with
conversion of a twenty-one year old ensign from
fighter gunnery instructor to senior Landing Signal
Officer in just fourmonths,and followshim through
twenty-seven months of fast paced air operations
in the naval air combat environment.
Size:6”x9”•30bwphotos•336pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0077-6•hard•$24.95
Flying Tiger: A Crew Chief’s Story: The
War Diary of an AVG Crew Chief Losonsky &
Losonsky. The war diary of a Flying Tiger American
Volunteer Group crew chief from the 3rd Pursuit
Squadron. This book contains Losonsky’s war
diary, which is supplemented with interviews and
dialogue, and over 200 photos.
Size:8.5”x11”•200photos•112pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0045-8•hard•$35.00
With Chennault in China: A Flying Tiger’s
Diary Robert M. Smith. Written by a radio operator
who served as a member of the AVG (American
Volunteer Group) throughout their existence,
this fascinating, intimate story of Chennault’s
“Flying Tigers” is loaded with original photos and
numerous first-hand accounts from the author’s
personal diary.
Size:6”x9”•110bwphotos•176pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0287-6•hard•$29.95
Flying Tiger to Air CommandoChuck Baisden.
This is an enlisted man’s story of over twenty years
of service to his country. From enlistment in the
Army Air Corps at age nineteen as a Private to his
retirement at age forty-four as a Master Sgt., his
unusual tale will interest all aviation, history, and
gunnery buffs.
Size:6”x9”•100bwphotos•160pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0690-1•hard•$24.95
U.S. UNIT HISTORIES
Fighter Units & Pilots of the 8th Air Force
September 1942–May 1945 Kent Miller.
This extremely detailed two-volume set gives
an overall statistical summary of 8th Air Force
fighter operations during WWII, presented in
an easy to read format.
Volume 1: Day-to-Day Operations,
Fighter Group Histories
Size:9”x12”•170bwphotos•536pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1241-3•hard•$59.95
Volume 2: Aerial Victories, Ace Data
Size:9”x12”•170bwphotos•400pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1242-1•hard•$59.95
The 8th Air Force: Victory and Sacrifice - A
WWII Photo History John W. Lambert. This
volume provides an historical perspective of the
air campaign over Western Europe, utilizing photos
and detailed captions to depict the deadly nature of
aerial combat some six decades ago.
Size:8.5”x11”•270bw/colorphotos•160pp.
ISBN:0-7643-2534-5•hard•$39.95
Fairwing–Brazil: Tales of the South
Atlantic in World War II. John R. Har-
rison, PhoM2/c-USNR. This compilation
of anecdotes, photographs, and maps
is presented to provide the reader with a
perspective on the experiences of U.S.
service personnel who were lucky enough
to serve in Brazil against the Axis Powers
during WWII.
Size:11”x81/2”•304 images•400pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-4665-1•hardcover•$45.00
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