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  • Going Downtown

    The War Against Hanoi and Washington

    by Jack Broughton ...
    GOING DOWNTOWN: The War Against Hanoi and Washington by Jack Broughton. A combat aviation classic. “Going Downtown” was the term American combat pilots used to denote the almost daily and invariably dangerous combat missions against the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, and its environs. To Colonel Jack Broughton, a veteran of the Korean War, former leader of the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    by Jack Broughton,Richard P. Hallion ...
    In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War

    by Dan Hampton ...
    At the height of the Cold War, America’s most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert program aimed at eliminating an impossible new threat. Half never returned. All became legends. From New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes one of the most extraordinary untold stories of Vietnam War aviation history.Vietnam, 1965: On July 24 a USAF F-4 Phantom jet was suddenly blown from the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • When Thunder Rolled

    An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam

    by Ed Rasimus ...
    Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber in his engaging account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968, more than 330 F-105s were lost—the highest loss rate in Southeast Asia—and many pilots were killed, captured, and wounded because of the Air Force’s disastrous tactics. The descriptions of Rasimus’s one ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Loud and Clear

    The Memoir of an Israeli Fighter Pilot

    by Iftach Spector ...
    A recently retired Israeli Air Force general and its second-highest-scoring fighter ace, Iftach Spector is one of Israel’s living legends. He was the leader of the flight that attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. After the 1967 and 1973 wars, in which he commanded a squadron of fighter-bombers, he rose to head the IAF’s Training and War Lessons Section and later became its the Chief of Operations. He ... Read more

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  • A Nightmare's Prayer

    A Marine Harrier Pilot's War in Afghanistan

    by Michael Franzak ...
    Winner of the 2012 Colby Award and the first Afghanistan memoir ever to be written by a Marine Harrier pilot, A Nightmare’s Prayer portrays the realities of war in the twenty-first century, taking a unique and powerful perspective on combat in Afghanistan as told by a former enlisted man turned officer. Lt. Col. Michael “Zak” Franzak was an AV-8B Marine Corps Harrier pilot who served as executive ... Read more

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  • Scream of Eagles

    The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots and How They Took Back the Skies Over Vietnam

    by Robert K. Wilcox ...
    The mission:Become the most skilled, highly-trained, and deadliestfighter pilots in the world.The place: TOP GUNIn the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 -- a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. TOP GUN. Utilizing actual enemy fighter planes in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fighter Pilot

    The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds

    by Christina Olds, Robin Olds, Ed Rasimus ...
    Fighter Pilot is the memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, Robin Olds.Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lords of the Sky

    Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16

    by Dan Hampton ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to presentINCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPSLords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive" (Michael Korda) aviation history of fighter pilots and aircraft and their extraordinary influence on modern warfare, masterfully written by "one of the most decorated pilots in Air ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Once A Fighter Pilot

    by Jerry Cook ...
    * The true adventure tales of a U.S. Air Force fighter who flew more than 400 combat hours while on duty in Vietnam* Provides a rare insider's glimpse into the world of the flying elite, detailing their education, training, emotions, and day to day experiences* Poignant, sometimes funny, brutally honest, always exciting, and an eye-opening look at one of the most tumultuous eras in U.S. history. ... Read more

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  • Viper Pilot

    A Memoir of Air Combat

    by Dan Hampton ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF 21ST-CENTURY AIR COMBAT, BY "ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED PILOTS IN AIR FORCE HISTORY" (NEW YORK POST)151 combat missions21 hard kills on surface -to -air missile sites4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor1 Purple HeartFirst into a war zone, flying behind enemy lines to purposely draw fire, the wild weasels are elite fighter squadrons with the most ... Read more

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  • Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm

    The Elimination of Iraq's Air Defence

    by Brick Eisel, Jim 'Boomer' Schreiner ...
    A detailed look at the day-to-day life of a pilot serving during the Persian Gulf War against Iraq.This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that ... Read more

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