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  • USAF Deployment Planning for Southeast Asia
    Jacob Van Staaveren / United States Air Force / USAF Historical Division Liason Office
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    24,54 €

  • USAF Special Air Warfare Doctrine and Capabilities 1963
    Charles H. Hildreth / United States Air Force / USAF Historical Division Liason Office
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    23,98 €

  • Evolution of Command and Control Doctrine for Close Air Support
    Office of Air Force History / Riley B. Sutherland / United States Air Force
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    24,14 €

  • Fortress Down
    Douglas L. Bockus
    This book is the true story of Major Clifford Cole who was flying as a co-pilot on an ill fated B-17 'Flying Fortress' when it was shot down over Germany on August 12, 1943. Three of the flight crew had been killed on the plane, but the remaining crew were able to bail out before the plane exploded. Major Cole was the only crew member who bailed out that was not captured...
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    12,92 €

  • The History of Big Safari
    Bill Grimes / Colonel Bill Grimes Usaf Retired
    For more than half a century, Big Safari-modified aircraft have performed dangerous and essential missions to collect intelligence, conduct surveillance and reconnaissance, and engage in special operations missions around the globe in the interest of national security. These state-of-the-art aircraft have been flown, operated, and maintained by men and women whose dedication an...
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    36,29 €

  • Airship on a Shoestring the Story of R 100
    John Anderson
    After the First World War, airships were seen as the only viable means of long range air transport for passengers and freight. In Britain, this gave rise to the Imperial Airship Scheme of 1924 to link the outposts of the Empire by an airship service.Conceived as part of this scheme, the R.100 airship, built by private enterprise, successfully flew to Canada and back in 1930.Thi...
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    30,73 €

  • Air Power for Patton’s Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War
    Air Force History & Museums Program / David N. Spires / David NSpires
    First published in 2002. From the foreword: 'This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during t...
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    33,40 €

  • Training to Fly
    Air Force History &. Museums Program / Rebecca Hancock Cameron / Richard P. Halion
    First published in 1999, this book is an institutional history of flight training by the predecessor organizations of the United States Air Force. The U.S. Army purchased its first airplane, built and successfully flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright, in 1909, and paced both lighter-and heavier-than-air aeronautics in the Division of Military Aeronautics of the Signal Corps. Amer...
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    67,60 €

  • An Air Force History of Space Activities, 1945-1959
    Lee Bowen / United States Air Force / USAF Historical Division Liason Office
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    38,37 €

  • Identification of Italian Aircraft (Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence FM 30-39)
    Chief of Staff / U.S. Army / War Department
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    16,10 €

  • An Air Force History of Space Activities, 1959-1960
    Max Rosenberg / United States Air Force / USAF Historical Division Liason Office
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    20,55 €

  • Identification of German Aircraft (Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence FM 30-35)
    Chief of Staff / United States Army / War Department
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    18,52 €

  • Identification of Soviet-Russian Aircraft (Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence FM 30-34)
    United States Army / War Department
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    13,90 €

  • ...and Then What Happened?
    Alta Mae Stevens
    And Then What Happened? reviews the career of Harold R. Harris that for a remarkable near-eighty years involved every aspect of aviation. An engineer, he was notable for his fearless innovations, from night flying and airport lighting to test piloting to techniques for overseeing the redesign of aircraft for cotton dusting or the transport of large heavy machinery. Harris was u...
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    27,41 €

  • Eagles Rampant Rising
    Charles J. Biddle / Charles JBiddle / Quentin Roosevelt
    Life and death in the skies above the battlefields of FranceThere are few books written by the dauntless young pilots who fought the first real war of the air when powered aircraft bombed, strafed, observed or fought in life or death dogfights over the battle lines. This special Leonaur edition contains two riveting accounts of the early conflict in the clouds by American pilot...
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    30,56 €

  • Eagles Rampant Rising
    Charles J. Biddle / Charles JBiddle / Quentin Roosevelt
    Life and death in the skies above the battlefields of FranceThere are few books written by the dauntless young pilots who fought the first real war of the air when powered aircraft bombed, strafed, observed or fought in life or death dogfights over the battle lines. This special Leonaur edition contains two riveting accounts of the early conflict in the clouds by American pilot...
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    20,46 €

  • J.A.P.
    Edward Landers
    JAP is a story about a young man who somehow, through a series of accidents intentions, mistakes and drive became a Naval Aviator, no mean feat by any accounts. Having survived the grim reaper several times during his eight years of flying on active duty with the Navy he has come to believe, sort of, that he is a good aviator and can take care of just about anything that arises...
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    19,28 €

  • Pilot Training Manual for the B-25 Mitchell Bomber
    Army Air Forces Hq / United States Army
    This is a full color reprint of the official and restricted training manual issued in November 1944. With photographs and line drawings throughout. ...
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    33,99 €

  • Air Force Roles and Mission
    U. S. Office of Air Force History / USOffice of Air Force History / Warren A. Trest / Warren aTrest
    Originally published in 1988. From the foreword: 'The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of three-dimensionality in war: surface forces now became prey for attackers operating above and below the earth and its oceans. The aerial weapon, prophesied for centuries, became a reality, as did air power projection forces. This insightful book by Warren A. Trest traces the doctr...
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    24,48 €

  • We Wanted Wings
    Air Education Training Command / Bruce Ashcroft / Office of History and Research
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    23,29 €

  • The Advisory Years to 1965 (the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia Series)
    Martin Blumenson / Office of Air Force History / Robert F. Futrell / Robert FFutrell
    Tells the story of the Air Force’s involvement in the region from the end of the second World War until the major infusion of American troops into Vietnam in 1965. During these years, and most noticeably after 1961 , the Air Force’s principal role in Southeast Asia was to advise the Vietnamese Air Force in its struggle against insurgents seeking the collapse of the Saigon gover...
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    37,23 €

  • The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance
    CIA History Staff / Donald E. Welzenbach / Gregory W. Pedlow
    Please include this as the description: 'On May 1, 1960, the news that the Soviet Union had downed a CIA high-altitude spy plane added the names 'U-2' and 'Francis Gary Powers' to the convoluted narrative of Cold War espionage. Yet this celebrated episode was only one aspect of an extraordinary history of covert, high-tech intrusion of secret U.S. aircraft into other nations' a...
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    66,59 €

  • Vietnam to Western Airlines
    Bruce Cowee
    This oral history of the air war in Vietnam includes the stories of more than thirty pilots who all had one thing in common-after returning from Southeast Asia and separating from the service, they were hired as pilots by Western Airlines. As the chapters begin, Bruce Cowee tells his story and introduces us to each pilot. The interesting theme is that all of these men served in...
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    30,42 €

  • The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance
    CIA History Office / Donald E. Welzenbach / Gregory W. Pedlow
    Please include this as the description: 'On May 1, 1960, the news that the Soviet Union had downed a CIA high-altitude spy plane added the names “U-2” and “Francis Gary Powers” to the convoluted narrative of Cold War espionage. Yet this celebrated episode was only one aspect of an extraordinary history of covert, high-tech intrusion of secret U.S. aircraft into other nations’ a...
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    39,99 €

  • An Erking Good Life
    Ken J. Rutterford
    Erk - a male member of the RAF of the lowest rank. An Erk was a bloke that could be found clambering all over an aircraft. The aircraft he called a Kite. Without the work that was performed by Erks, the aircrews could never have flown. If he was an engine bod, then he would take on an oily, greasy appearance. He came in all shapes and sizes and was known to be very fond o...
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    28,44 €

  • Tactical Airlift (the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia)
    Office of Air Force History / Roy L. Bowers / Roy LBowers
    Originally published in 1983. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Presents the United States Air Force’s use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the decision of President Truman to assist the French in 1950 to the end of United States involvement in 1975. ...
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    47,87 €

  • Training to Fly
    Air Force History & Museums Program / Rebecca Hancock Cameron
    First published in 1999, this book is an institutional history of flight training by the predecessor organizations of the United States Air Force. The U.S. Army purchased its first airplane, built and successfully flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright, in 1909, and paced both lighter-and heavier-than-air aeronautics in the Division of Military Aeronautics of the Signal Corps. Amer...
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    42,49 €

  • Setup
    Air University Press / Earl H. Tilford / Earl HTilford
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    24,55 €

  • Sierra Hotel
    Air Force History &. Museums Program / C. R. Anderegg / Richard P. Hallion
    Originally published in 2001. From the foreword: '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...
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    19,35 €

  • Sierra Hotel
    C. R. Anderegg
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    50,59 €