Most Powerful Fighter Planes of World War II

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

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

    A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies”* emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times and international 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 cr... [Read More]

  • Daughters of the Night Sky

    • ASIN: B06XTQ4YD1
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    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... [Read More]

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

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

    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. Sti... [Read More]

  • Fighter!: Ten Killer Planes of World War II

    • UPC: 752748349520
    • ASIN: 0760349525
    • ISBN: 0760349525
    • Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

    Plunge into the action, and marvel at ten of the best and best-known World War II fighter aircraft!There's no shortage of fantastic archival aviation photography from World War II. But photos from the period fall short in three major categories: the vast majority are black and white, most were composed under duress, and very few capture moments tha... [Read More]

  • Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944

    • ASIN: B06X9HRRPG
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing

    On 27 October 1942, four 'Long Lance' torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build ... [Read More]

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

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

    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... [Read More]

  • The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-1945

    • ASIN: B000FC0WU6
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight

    • ASIN: B07JPZ6Z99
    • Brand: Teresa Dymek Home Net Games
    • Manufacturer: Teresa Dymek Home Net Games

  • Planes: A Complete History

    • ASIN: 1626861552
    • ISBN: 9781626861558
    • Brand: Thunder Bay Press
    • Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press

    Soar through the only history of aircraft that invites you to build your own!Nothing seems to capture the imagination of humankind quite like the ability to fly, and just over a hundred years ago, that dream became a reality. Over the last century, planes have progressed in ways that would astound their earliest makers, and flying machines continue... [Read More]

  • Fighters Over the Fleet: Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

    • ASIN: B01MR4G2EZ
    • Manufacturer: Seaforth Publishing

    This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare, the Royal Navy, the US Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts from the 1920s but it was not until radar all... [Read More]

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

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

  • Fork-Tailed Devil; The P-38

    • ASIN: B0086HW110
    • Manufacturer: iBooks

    One of America's greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe.Martin Caidin was the author of over fifty books and more than a thousand magazine articles and was recogn... [Read More]

  • Little Friends: The Fighter Pilot Experience in WWII England

    • ASIN: 0394584341
    • ISBN: 0394584341
    • Brand: Random House USA Inc
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    A profile of the "Little Friends"--the nickname given to American and British pilots who escorted U.S. bombers into German-occupied Europe

  • Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16

    • ASIN: B00DB39Y8M
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPSLords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive" (Michael Korda) history of fighter pilots and aircraft and their extraordinary influence on modern warfare, masterfully... [Read More]

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

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

    (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... [Read More]

  • InAir WWII Planes 6-pc Set with Aircraft ID Guide - Assortment 2

    • UPC: 783746013434
    • ASIN: B0014RO3FG
    • Brand: InAir
    • Manufacturer: WowToyz

    This is a fun assortment of authentically detailed, best-selling WWII airplanes which includes the C-47 (military DC-3), Spitfire, Zero Fighter, Junkers Ju 87, B-17 Flying Fortress (Silver) & D4Y3 Judy.

  • Supermarine Spitfire: 1936 onwards (all marks) (Owners' Workshop Manual)

    • ASIN: 1844254623
    • ISBN: 1844254623
    • Manufacturer: Haynes Publishing UK

    The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the full co-operation and authorization of the Royal Air Force. This is a unique guide for anyone wishing to own and operate a Spitfire, as well as a wonderful insight into the engineering and construction of this remarkable airplane; includes a developmental histor... [Read More]

  • Going Solo (The Centenary Collection)

    • ASIN: B006UB7CAY
    • Manufacturer: Penguin

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

    • ASIN: B06XXLLVMG

    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 ... [Read More]

  • The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II

    • ASIN: B06X3T8WGV
    • Brand: Regnery History
    • Manufacturer: Regnery History

    *A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!*The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book.From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on Augus... [Read More]

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