• Carrier Pilot: One of the greatest pilot's memoirs of WWII - a true aviation classic.

    ‘It has everything a war memoir should have’ LEN DEIGHTON‘OF ALL THE AIRCRAFT I HAD EVER SEEN, THESE WERE THE MOST WICKED-LOOKING BASTARDS. THE CORSAIR LOOKED TRULY VICIOUS …’In 1942 Norman Hanson learnt to fly the Royal Navy’s newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots it also proved to be a lethal weapon.Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desparate and determined enemy, Kami... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01MQGD6AF
    • ASIN: B01MQGD6AF
    • Manufacturer: Silvertail Books

  • Tail-End Charley: Stories from an American fighter pilot in World War II

    On his nineteenth birthday, James E. Brown tries to fake to his flight instructor that he has flown before. On his twenty-first birthday, Brown is on his way home after logging eighty-five missions in a P-47 fighter over Italy, France, and Germany.Brown’s stories surrounding his training and combat experiences in World War II reveal brushes with death, continuous peril and, ultimately, a coming of age for a young man whose freshman year in college becomes instead a heroic engagement with one of the fiercest enemies his country has ever encountered.Ever dutiful to the mother who tells him to ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B06XXLLVMG
    • ASIN: B06XXLLVMG

  • A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt figh... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0425255735
    • UPC: 884836574146
    • ASIN: 0425255735
    • ISBN: 0425255735
    • Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

  • Sagittarius Rising

    ‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment of good looks . . . this prince of pilots . . . had a charmed life in every sense of the word’ – George Bernard Shaw Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00FOGG3E2
    • ASIN: B00FOGG3E2
    • Manufacturer: Frontline Books

  • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

    John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary fighter aircraft -- the F-15 and F-16. Still others think of Boyd as the most influential military theorist since Sun Tzu. They know only half the story. Boyd, more than any other person, saved fighter aviation from the predations of the Strategic Air Command. His manual of fighter tactics c... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316796883
    • ASIN: 0316796883
    • ISBN: 0316796883
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • Stuka Pilot

    Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich’s most prestigious medal which was specially created for Rudel by Hitler himself, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.Shot down over 24 times, Hans Rudel is credited with destroying over 500 tanks, 2,000 ground targets, the Russian battleship Marat, two cruisers and a destroyer, and was so successful against Russian forces that Joseph Stalin put up a 100,000 rouble ransom on his head... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1908476877
    • ASIN: 1908476877
    • ISBN: 1908476877
    • Brand: Brand: Black House Publishing Ltd
    • Manufacturer: Black House Publishing

  • The Last Zero Fighter

    Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of the pivotal battles of the Pacific War including; USS Panay, Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Rabaul, Port Darwin, Indian Ocean Raid, Ceylon, Midway, Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Kamikaze in the Philippines, the home defense and the dropping of the atomic bomb. The book is 348 pages includes 78 photos (many from the veterans' own albums), 9 original maps and illustrations. Includes an introduction to the Japanese pilot training system for both o... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B008LO3VIU
    • ASIN: B008LO3VIU
    • Manufacturer: Pacific Press

  • Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II

    In 1941, as Nazi hordes swept east into the Soviet Union, a desperte call went out for women to join the Russian air force. The result—three entire regiments of women pilots and bombers—was a phenomenon unmatched in World II. Through interviews with these courageous pilots, the author uncovers their story. Soon to be a major motion picture.

    • ASIN: 0897332881
    • ASIN: 0897332881
    • ISBN: 0897332881
    • Brand: Myles, Bruce
    • Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press

  • Tippy: Tales of Flying Sergeants (Enlisted Fighter Pilots in WWII)

    How did a backwoods, "Enlisted" Marine mechanic become a P-51 - Ace Pilot in WWll? Loosely based on an “Enlisted Marine” mechanic who flew a P-51 aircraft during WWII. (Normally, only Commissioned Officers were pilots.) These "enlisted" pilots fought like hellions in air battles in the European and South Pacific theaters against greater trained enemy pilots and superior aircraft. They showed tenacity, guts, and heart in a belief they could stem the tide of tyranny. They crammed their bodies into tiny aircraft, and then hurled themselves across the skies, to protect America!I wrote Tippy a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00RU3NNZE
    • ASIN: B00RU3NNZE

  • Daughters of the Night Sky

    A novel—inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army—about a woman’s sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war.Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she’s dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband—a sensitive artist who fears for her safety—can dissuade her from doing her part as a proud daughter of Russia.... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B06XTQ4YD1
    • ASIN: B06XTQ4YD1
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot

    The parents of James Leininger were first puzzled and then disturbed when their two-year-old son began screaming out chilling phrases during recurrent nightmares, such as, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" The centerpiece of a loving family of three, James was a happy, playful toddler who had only just begun stringing together sentences. Determined to understand what was happening to their son, Bruce and Andrea set off on a journey of discovery that was to rock them to their core. For the more they researched the arcane comments and fragmented details little James revealed, the more t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0446509345
    • ASIN: 0446509345
    • ISBN: 0446509345
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • Sketches of a Black Cat - Expanded Edition: Story of a night flying WWII pilot and artist

    (Paperback available in B&W or Full Color - click both format arrows - or Color Kindle) “They painted our planes black, we wondered about that, then they put flame arrestors on our engines. We were told the cabin would be completely blacked out, the cockpit windows were darkened, and we would be doing mainly night work…” LCDR Howard Miner, VP-54This coming-of-age story follows the exploits of a WWII Navy seaplane pilot who became one of the first to fly night missions. From boxes of journals, photos, and artwork comes a true story filled with colorful descriptions of exotic locations, se... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1535055286
    • ASIN: 1535055286
    • ISBN: 1535055286
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

    The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War Two, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian Donald Miller and soon to be a major HBO series.Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0743235452
    • ASIN: 0743235452
    • ISBN: 0743235452
    • Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Moon Above, Moon Below (Moon Brothers WWII Adventure Series Book 1)

    France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle to trap and destroy the still-potent German armies defending Normandy. But the Allies face another formidable obstacle of their own making: a seething rivalry between generals leads to a high-level disregard for orders that puts the campaign in the Falaise Pocket at risk of devastating failure—or spectacular success. That campaign unfolds through the eyes of two American brothers—one an idealistic pilot, the other a fatalistic tanker—as they plunge headlong into the confusion and indiscrimi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01IO1PK9C
    • ASIN: B01IO1PK9C

  • Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II


    • ASIN: 0802128394
    • ASIN: 0802128394
    • ISBN: 0802128394
    • Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press

  • Blunting the Spear: Why Good People Get Out - USAF Retention of Best Officers from Combat Air Forces, Fighter, Bomber, Remotely Piloted Aircraft, UAV, UAS Communities, Avoiding Pilot Shortages - eBook

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this provocative book analyzes the United States Air Forces retention of the "best" rated officers from the combat air forces. Specifically, it addresses the retention of pilots

    • UPC: 603922174

  • Aviator Helmet Hat Russian Steampunk WW2 Bomber Airplane Fighter Pilot Costume

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    • Model: 22744
    • Color: Multicolor
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  • 1940s Defense Bond and Stamp Poster from WW2 with Fighter Pilot Saying You Buy Em We Fly Em Print Wall Art

    Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery

    • UPC: 855933402
    • Color: Multicolor
    • Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24

  • Male WW2 Fighter Pilot Adult Costume

    Costume designed in the UK by Orion Costumes, a company that pride themselves on inventive and inspiring party costumes, whatever the style and whoever the customer. From the truly hilarious to the beautifully chic, there’s

    • UPC: 370382786
    • Color: Brown
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  • 1940s Defense Bond and Stamp Poster from WW2 with Fighter Pilot Saying You Buy Em We Fly Em Framed Print Wall Art

    Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. Using the finest materials, our framing craftsmen will

    • UPC: 825429012
    • Color: BrownEspresso
    • Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24

  • US Air Force Sergeant Studies An Reconnaissance Photo Of A Communist Gun Position His Reports On Red Flak Are Used In Briefing Fighter-Bomber Pilots On How Best To Approach Heavily Defended Targets Ko

    U.S. Air Force Sergeant Studies An Reconnaissance Photo Of A Communist Gun Position. His Reports On Red Flak Are Used In Briefing Fighter-Bomber Pilots On How Best To Approach Heavily Defended Targets. Korean War was

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    • Model: EVCHISL038EC126
    • Color: RedMulticolor
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    Do You Want Your Universal 12" Screen To Look Different Than The Rest? You’re in the right place because we’ve got exactly what you’re looking for! This Alien Invasion skin is the perfect way to

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  • Erich Hartmann: Best Fighter Pilot of All Time | Tooky History

    The Second World War: The Fighter Aces

    The Greatest Air Aces Ever - Erich Hartmann