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  • History of the Air Corps Tactical School 1920-1940
    Robert T. Finney / Robert TFinney / Us Air Force History &. Museums Program / Us Air Force History &Museums Program
    From the foreword: 'In the 1930s the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the birthplace and nurturing ground for American air doctrine. The work undertaken at the school became manifest in the skies over Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific in the Second World War. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared America for w...
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    25,40 €

  • To Save a City
    Roger G. Miller / Roger GMiller / Us Air Force History &. Museums Program / Us Air Force History &Museums Program
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    25,47 €

  • Luck on the Wing
    Elmer Haslett
    A first hand account of combat in the air by an American ObserverThe Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provided powered and manoeuvrable flight. There are few memoirs written by those engaged in the air war, so all are essential from an historical perspective and most are riveting. This was a ...
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    27,71 €

  • Luck on the Wing
    Elmer Haslett
    A first hand account of combat in the air by an American ObserverThe Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provided powered and manoeuvrable flight. There are few memoirs written by those engaged in the air war, so all are essential from an historical perspective and most are riveting. This was a ...
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    17,61 €

  • Above the Battle
    Vivian Drake
    The young R. F. C pilot’s air war above the Western FrontIt seems incredible that just over 100 years ago no country counted an air-force among its armed services. Pilots were drawn from other branches of the military and the early airmen were not referred to as ’the cavalry of the air’ for no reason. The First World War introduced aerial bombing of troops, transport, manufactu...
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    25,65 €

  • Above the Battle
    Vivian Drake
    The young R. F. C pilot’s air war above the Western FrontIt seems incredible that just over 100 years ago no country counted an air-force among its armed services. Pilots were drawn from other branches of the military and the early airmen were not referred to as ’the cavalry of the air’ for no reason. The First World War introduced aerial bombing of troops, transport, manufactu...
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    16,70 €

  • Almost a Boffin
    EE Vielle
    To continue to live life to the full at 100 years old is quite amazing! In this exhilarating, exciting and at times emotional book EE (Tubby) Vielle takes us through a life which involved several different careers. His early childhood memories draw you into a forgotten world. The threat of hunger during the Great Depression led him away from university to the RAF and flying 150...
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    20,90 €

  • Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945
    Chicago DODO Chapter Tuskegee Airmen / Kenneth Rapier
    Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945 shares the memories of 22 original Tuskegee Airmen and their experiences as African American combat aviators during World War II. Filled with photographs, combat records, mission reports, official correspondence, newspaper clippings, and the personal annotations of the original document owners, Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945 provides a singularly unique re...
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    50,43 €

  • Brothers at Daybreak.
    World War II B-24 crew beats the odds over Pacific waters.Brothers at Daybreak tells the intimate story of 11 boys who got together in 1944 to fight World War II from the air above the vast Pacific Ocean. The young members of Pilot Frank Jeter’s flight crew took their role in defeating the Japanese one mission and one day at a time. They stuck together to face the constant thre...
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    23,13 €

  • Command of the Air
    Charles a. Gabriel / Giulio Douhet
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    68,83 €

  • Command of the Air
    Giulio Douhet
    Reprint of the 1983 translation by staff of the United States Office of Air Force History. 3 ...
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    34,14 €

  • Eagles of the RAF
    National Defense University Press / Philip D. Caine
    Orginally published in 1991. From the foreword: 'Although the United States did not enter World War II until the end of 1941, US citizens fought and died in the war long before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Among them were the pilots of the Eagle Squadrons, three fighter squadrons of Britain's Royal Air Force manned by young US flyers risking their lives in another nation...
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    34,07 €

  • Lucrative Targets
    Air Force History and Museums Programs / Perry D. Jamieson
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    28,79 €

  • Piercing the Fog
    Air Force History and Museums Program
    From the foreword: WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. Piercing the Fog tells the intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organiz...
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    54,00 €

  • Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War
    Air University Press / David N. Spires
    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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    54,53 €

  • Piercing the Fog
    Air Force History and Museums Program / John F. Kreis / John FKreis
    From the foreword: WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. Piercing the Fog tells the intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organiz...
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    32,82 €

  • Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis
    Kevin A. Mahoney / Kevin AMahoney
    In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the critical role played by this Air Force unit during World War II from November 1943 through May 1945. ...
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    179,18 €

  • Kassel
    Tom Harrison
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    63,06 €

  • Beechcraft T-34 Mentor Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Air Force
    Designed in 1948 by the brilliant Walter Beech, the T-34 Mentor was intended as a low cost replacement for the T-6/NJ Texan. The aircraft bore many similarities to the Beechcraft Bonanza, but had a two-seat cockpit with bubble canopy, and a conventional tail. The original T-34s were equipped with a piston engine. Fifteen years after production ceased, the design was upgraded an...
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    16,88 €

  • Wings of War
    C. Mellor / CMellor / Gerald Featherstone Knight
    Two first accounts by early aviatorsThis special Leonaur ’good value’ edition contains two accounts of the early days of powered flight. The first book, written just before the outbreak of the First World War, describes in depth the training of French military pilots up to the point where they are qualified. It contains much of historical interest and the process is explained, ...
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    25,52 €

  • Wings of War
    C. Mellor / CMellor / Gerald Featherstone Knight
    Two first accounts by early aviatorsThis special Leonaur ’good value’ edition contains two accounts of the early days of powered flight. The first book, written just before the outbreak of the First World War, describes in depth the training of French military pilots up to the point where they are qualified. It contains much of historical interest and the process is explained, ...
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    16,58 €

  • Royal Air Force Coastal Command
    John Campbell
    Royal Air Force Coastal Command was the organisation charged with keeping the sea lanes clear around the coasts of Britain for the best part of half a century, from immediately after the First World War until the 1960s. In the decades after the Second World War, John Campbell served as a Coastal Command navigator and crew captain on Shackleton aircraft in the Maritime Patrol ro...
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    17,91 €

  • The Swallow
    Ruth Dunbar
    An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World WarThis book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edition, it is coupled with the tantalising information that the incidents related in these pages and the character of the book’s protagonist, the Texan Richard Byrd, are factual. Further...
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    24,60 €

  • The Swallow
    Ruth Dunbar
    An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World WarThis book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edition, it is coupled with the tantalising information that the incidents related in these pages and the character of the book’s protagonist, the Texan Richard Byrd, are factual. Further...
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    14,50 €

  • The Way of the Air
    Edgar C. Middleton / Edgar CMiddleton
    The dawn of combat in the airToday everyone is so familiar with aircraft, air travel and the fact that virtually every nation’s defence force includes an aerial component, so it is easy to forget that there are many people still alive whose parents were born before any practical form of working aircraft. The Wright Brothers had achieved sustained heavier than air flight in 1903...
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    24,60 €

  • The Way of the Air
    Edgar C. Middleton / Edgar CMiddleton
    The dawn of combat in the airToday everyone is so familiar with aircraft, air travel and the fact that virtually every nation’s defence force includes an aerial component, so it is easy to forget that there are many people still alive whose parents were born before any practical form of working aircraft. The Wright Brothers had achieved sustained heavier than air flight in 1903...
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    14,50 €

  • The Air Defense of the United States
    Air Defense Command / Directorate of Historical Services
    First published in 1952, this volume is a history of the evolution of an air defense system in the United States from approximately the end of World War II through June 1951. The decision to include in the present work an account of the pioneer air defense efforts of its predecessors as well as major developments within the Air Defense Command for the first half of 1951 was pro...
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    57,74 €

  • Light, Intense and Accurate  U.S. Eighth Air Force Strategic Fighters versus German Flak in the ETO
    Saffron Walden 65th Fighter Wing / Sam Souci / Willliam D. Thurston / Willliam DThurston
    Published in 1945 by the 65th Fighter Wing, Saffron Walden, 8th U.S. Air Force. This document was written to make and show why certain recommendations may help future air force commanders conserve fighters; this is not a training manual, however. It details the fact that flak was by far the most dangerous weapon the strategic fighter had to face. How it all came about and what ...
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    79,22 €

  • Milk Run
    William E. Heichel
    Milk Run: A Gunner's Tale is the true story of William E. Heichel and his experiences flying with the crew of a B-26 Martin Marauder in World War II Europe, primarily as waist gunner and radio operator. Written in a casual style reminiscent of a journal, the story draws heavily from the author's combat experience and seeks to tell the story of life in the U.S. Air Corps withou...
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    15,62 €

  • Army Air Forces Statistical Digest World War II
    Army Air Forces / Office of the Statistical Control
    High quality reprint of 1945 publication. The Army Air Forces Statistical Digest (World War II) published by the Office of the Statistical Control, Headquarters, Army Air Forces, makes available in one voltume and on a uniform basis summary statistics on AAF personnel, aircraft, equipment, combat operations and other activities during World War II. 3 ...
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    54,36 €


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