Drawing on personal interviews with surviving recipients and in-depth research, this comprehensive study provides the behind-the-scenes story of the more than one hundred American aviators from all military services who have received medals because of their service, including such famed airmen as Jimmy Doolittle, Joe Foss, and Patrick Brady.

Product Description: A complete overview of the U.S. Air Force-from the origins and complete histories to the battles and weaponry. Here are comprehensive accounts and descriptions of the battles, weaponry, and personnel, from the enlisted man to the top-ranking officers-featuring fascinating detail on the bloodiest battles, the greatest successes and most devastating setbacks, and much more...read more

Product Description: The first "coffee-table" book about the fast-growing sport of Cowboy Action Shooting. This book contains over 200 photographs illustrating the various aspects of Cowboy Action Shooting, including but not restricted to: firearm safety, firearm selection, and shooting tips and techniques...read more

Details the role played by the Wildcat, Hellcat and Corsair in Ameria's World War II aerial operations.

Product Description: This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Organized alpha-betically, the entries give detailed descriptions of weapons, equipment, divisions, air and naval units, geography, terminology, personalities, and more...read more

Product Description: Filled with over 200 rare original WWII color photos of US Navy aircraft and carriers on duty.

Provides an in-depth account of the June 1944 clash near the Marianas Islands between the American and Japanese carrier fleets, a confrontation that became the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history, drawing on numerous interviews with participants from both sides, as well as official sources to describe the conflict. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

A series of short novels explore the art of warfare in the twenty-first century--on the land, in the sea, in the air, and in outer space.

Product Description: Guide to AR-15 accuracy as told by a noted accuracy gunsmith.

Lt. Phil 'Buck' Rogers and his comrades pilot untested dive bombers from the deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown, battling the Japanese in the conflicts at Midway and Guadalcanal.

Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and of the men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict. Award-winning author Barrett Tillman has been called ''the man who owns naval aviation history,'' and Enterprise is the work he was born to write: the first complete story of ''The Big E,'' incorporating oral histories and the author's own interviews with the last surviving veterans who served on her through the major battles of the Pacific war. America's most decorated warship of World War II, Enterprise was constantly engaged against the Japanese Empire, earning the title ''the fightingest ship'' in the navy. Her career was eventful, vital, and short. Commissioned in 1938, her bombers sank a submarine just ten days after the Pearl Harbor attack, claiming the first Japanese vessel lost in the war. It was the auspicious beginning of an odyssey that Tillman captures brilliantly, from escorting sister carrier Hornet as it launched the Doolittle Raiders against Tokyo in 1942 to playing leading roles in the pivotal battles of Midway and Guadalcanal to undergoing the shattering nightmare of kamikaze strikes in May of 1945. This is the definitive history of the ship whose aviators claimed 911 enemy aircraft and 71 ships, a saga of seemingly ceaseless heroism.

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and of the men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict...read more

Product Description: November 1943 to May 1945. The US Army Air Forces waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler s vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich s southern flank. Flying from southern Italy, far from the limelight enjoyed by the Eighth Air Force in England, the Fifteenth Air Force engaged in high-risk missions spanning most of the European continent...read more

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Product Description: Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944. Designed for speed, range, and climb to compete with Japan's exceptional Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it succeeded not only in engaging the "Zeke" on equal terms but also in dictating the rules of combat...read more

Offers a detailed history of the design, development, operational activities, and military significance of the Grumman F6F, the U.S. Navy fighter that played such a strategic role in aerial combat over the Pacific

A fictional account of the U.S. Navy's battles against the Japanese in World War II features the equipment and tactics of the fighter plane that produced a record number of aces