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Author
Publisher
Dead Reckoning
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend, known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches"--
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Frank "Jammer" Davis is called upon by French officials to investigate the reasons why a brand new C-500 plane dropped from the sky, killing the two pilots on board, and is shocked to discover links between the crash and a series of suicide bombing attacks on oil refineries around the world.
4) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on December 21, 1943: an American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17, and a German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
" 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 sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the Navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. While much...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Colonel Leo K. Thorsness was a Wild Weasel pilot in the Vietnam War, targeting enemy missile sites. On a 1967 mission, when his wingmen ejected from their burning aircraft, Thorsness initiated attacks on enemy planes and other daring maneuvers in order to protect them. Two weeks later, he was shot down and would become a P.O.W. for the next six years."--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Examines how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane...
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