Aerial Victories of the Jet Era

Aerial Victories of the Jet Era
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781411665989
ISBN-13 : 1411665988
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Aerial Victories of the Jet Era by : Arthur Wyllie

This is a complete list of every pilot who has acheived an aerial victory from 1950-2000. It covers Korea, Viet Nam, Lybia and the Persian Gulf. An excellent companion to WWII Victories of the Army Air Force.

Stranded III: Coming Home

Stranded III: Coming Home
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781304502162
ISBN-13 : 1304502163
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Stranded III: Coming Home by : Arthur Wyllie

This is book three in the Stranded trilogy. Once again Eric and Alana must return to the savage little planet of Plusar to aid Ryan in battling the evil forces trying to take over the planet. This time, however, several new and unexpected twists occur that were not expected.

Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam

Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781428990487
ISBN-13 : 1428990488
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam by :

In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.

Air Corps News Letter

Air Corps News Letter
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 974
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105008375458
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Air Corps News Letter by :

Flying Tigers

Flying Tigers
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Publisher : Warbird Books
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9780692734735
ISBN-13 : 0692734732
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Flying Tigers by : Daniel Ford

During World War II, in the skies over Burma and China, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down--fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night.This May 2023 revision has never-before-published information about Chennault's early years. "Admirable," wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd of Ford's original text. "A readable book based on sound sources. Expect some surprises." Flying Tigers won the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award of Excellence in the year of its first publication.

A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force

A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : UCBK:C062021095
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force by : Stephen Lee McFarland

Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.

MiG Alley

MiG Alley
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781472836069
ISBN-13 : 1472836065
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis MiG Alley by : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. Packed with first-hand accounts and covering the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, MiG Alley brings the war vividly to life and the record is finally set straight on a number of popular fabrications. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.

Fighting Hitler's Jets

Fighting Hitler's Jets
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Publisher : Zenith Press
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9780760343982
ISBN-13 : 0760343985
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Fighting Hitler's Jets by : Robert F. Dorr

Fighting Hitler's Jets is the personal story of the American fighter pilots who defeated the German Luftwaffe in the spring and summer of 1944, only to find themselves up against Adolf Hitler's Wunderwaffen, or “wonder weapons.”

MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War

MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 9781472812575
ISBN-13 : 1472812573
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War by : István Toperczer

At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) were equipped with slow, old Korean War generation fighters – a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s – types that should have offered little opposition to the cutting-edge fighter-bombers such as the F-4 Phantom II, F-105 Thunderchief and the F-8 Crusader. Yet when the USAF and US Navy unleashed their aircraft on North Vietnam in 1965 the inexperienced pilots of the VPAF were able to shatter the illusion of US air superiority. Taking advantage of their jet's unequalled low-speed maneuverability, small size and powerful cannon armament they were able to take the fight to their missile-guided opponents, with a number of Vietnamese pilots racking up ace scores. Packed with information previously unavailable in the west and only recently released from archives in Vietnam, this is the first major analysis of the exploits of Vietnamese pilots in the David and Goliath contest with the US over the skies of Vietnam.

Air Combat

Air Combat
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9781101206164
ISBN-13 : 1101206160
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Air Combat by : Robert F. Dorr

In Air Combat, veteran and military author Robert F. Dorr has collected dozens of interviews from combat veterans who have experienced what it’s like to face the enemy in the skies above, from the first days of World War II to the current war on terror. Each story tells a first-hand account of what it’s like to be in the thick of the fight, describes the history, strengths, and weaknesses of each man’s plane in detail, and offers readers a rare glimpse into the minds and hearts of those who dare to fight in the air. From the savage dogfights of World War II to the high-tech missile duels of today, those who wage war in the skies—and the machines they fly—are a breed apart. Pushing themselves to the cutting edge of speed and skill, their battleground is among the clouds—where every fight you survive is a victory. These are their stories—in their own words.