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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
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Shattered Sword

By Anthony Tully , Jonathan Parshall ,

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The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway
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The First Team

By John B. Lundstrom ,

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Flight of the Old Dog
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Flight of the Old Dog

By Dale Brown ,

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Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine
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Masters of the Air

By Donald L. Miller ,

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Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
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Downfall

By Richard B. Frank ,

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Warriors
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Warriors

By Barrett Tillman ,

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Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
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Pacific Payback

By Stephen L. Moore ,

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The Flight Girls
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The Flight Girls

By Noelle Salazar ,

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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
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Flying Tigers

By Daniel Ford ,

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Into the Teeth of the Tiger
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Into the Teeth of the Tiger

By Donald S. Lopez ,

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The Tenth Air Force in World War II: Strategy, Command, and Operations 1942-1945
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The Tenth Air Force in World War II

By Edward M. Young ,

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Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
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Fighter Pilot

By Robin Olds , Ed Rasimus , Christina Olds

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Call-Sign Kluso: An American Fighter Pilot in Mr. Reagan's Air Force
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Call-Sign Kluso

By Rick Tollini ,

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Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
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Viper Pilot

By Dan Hampton ,

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Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
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Flights of Passage

By Samuel Hynes ,

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The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
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The Girl in the Picture

By Denise Chong ,

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Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life Under an Air War
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Voices from the Plain of Jars

By Fred Branfman ,

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Chickenhawk
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Chickenhawk

By Robert Mason ,

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Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Bury Us Upside Down

By Rick Newman , Don Shepperd ,

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Baa, Baa Black Sheep
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Baa, Baa Black Sheep

By Gregory “Pappy” Boyington ,

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Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38
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Fork-Tailed Devil

By Martin Caidin ,

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A Flying Tiger's Diary
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A Flying Tiger's Diary

By Charles R. Bond Jr. , Terry H. Anderson ,

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Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
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Never Call Me a Hero

By N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss , Timothy Orr , Laura Orr

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The Tibbets Story
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The Tibbets Story

By Paul W. Tibbets ,

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The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs
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The Silverplate Bombers

By Richard H. Campbell ,

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The 509th Remembered
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The 509th Remembered

By Robert Krauss ,

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Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
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Black Snow

By James M. Scott ,

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81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness
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81 Days Below Zero

By Brian Murphy , Toula Vlahou ,

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Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir
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Fate is the Hunter

By Ernest K. Gann ,

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Lady Icarus: The Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath
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Lady Icarus

By Lindie Naughton ,

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Magnificent Women and Flying Machines: The First 200 Years of British Women in the Sky
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Magnificent Women and Flying Machines

By Sally Smith ,

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Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II
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Enterprise

By Barrett Tillman ,

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A Remembrance of Ghosts
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A Remembrance of Ghosts

By Frank Barnard ,

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Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
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Shot Down

By Steve Snyder , John Maling (editor) ,

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Daring Mary Aviation Pioneer
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Daring Mary Aviation Pioneer

By Mary Bush Shipko , Carla Ginsberg Latimer (illustrator) ,

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In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam
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In That Time

By Daniel H. Weiss ,

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Trophy
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Trophy

By Julian Jay Savarin ,

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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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The Bomber Mafia

By Malcolm Gladwell ,

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The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
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The Limits of Air Power

By Mark Clodfelter ,

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A Harvest of Memories
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Clipped Wings
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Clipped Wings

By Molly Merryman ,

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The Originals
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The Originals

By Sarah Byrn Rickman ,

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