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An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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A portrait of American fighter pilot John Boyd examines his distinguished military career during the Korean War and his postwar efforts to transform the American military with his revolutionary theories of conflict.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
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"The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave new definition to "hell-raising"on the ground and in the skies. Pappy himself was a living legendhe personally shot down 28 Japanese planes, and won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. He broke every rule in the book in doing...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The first American woman combat jet pilot and Arizona Senator presents a motivational life guide that explains how she overcame formidable boundaries by following a set of key principles based on making courage a choice.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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A biography of top fighter pilot and squadron commander Robin Olds--who arrived in Vietnam in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, both Navy pilots during the Korean War in 1950, come from different backgrounds: Hudner is a white New Englander, a son of privilege; Brown is an African American son of a sharecropper from Mississippi. When the two men join forces in Fighter Squadron 32, they forge a deep friendship at a time when racial inequality was prevalent in America. An unwavering commitment binds Tom and Jesse to each other...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Presents the story of a Vietnam War POW, from his training to become a jet pilot, at the age of eighteen and the mission during which he was shot down and captured through his harrowing six-year incarceration within the "Hanoi Hilton."
For middle-grade readers, the true story of a pilot in the U.S. Air Force who received the Medal of Honor for his great acts of aerial valor. Lieutenant Colonel Leo K. Thorsness was a Wild Weasel pilot in the Vietnam...
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Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Five Nickels is the true story of Captain Steve Phillis, a decorated Air Force A-10 fighter pilot killed under heroic circumstances while trying to save his downed wingman on their thirtieth Desert Storm combat mission. On February 15, 1991, Captain Steve Phillis was leading his wingman, Lieutenant Rob Sweet, on their thirtieth combat mission of Desert Storm flying the A-10 Warthog. They were tasked with attacking Iraq’s vaunted Medina Division...
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Publisher
Iowa State University Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
New Guinea Skies is the personal story of a World War II fighter pilot stationed in the South Pacific. Built around the framework of the author's 1943-44 war diary, this book chronicles his life from boyhood on an Indiana farm through pilot training and into wartime action as a member of the Thirty-ninth Fighter Squadron - the first squadron equipped with the P-38 Lightning aircraft that could challenge Japan's Zero for air supremacy. The Thirty-ninth...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "ONE OF THE BEST AIR-COMBAT MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME"* BY "ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED PILOTS IN AIR FORCE HISTORY"† 151 combat missions 21 hard kills on surface -to -air missile sites 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor 1 Purple Heart First into a war zone, flying behind enemy lines to purposely draw fire, the wild weasels are elite fighter squadrons with the most dangerous job in the Air Force One of the greatest...
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