aerial operations, american

Tells the story of hundreds of American airmen who were shot down over Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, how local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to hide and help them, and their daring rescue in August 1944 by OSS agents.

The story of two pilots who fought on different sides during World War II. Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown was a former farm boy from West Virginia who flew a B-17. Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria, who flew a German Messerschmitt, did not want to fight in the war. Twenty-one year old Charlie Brown's badly damaged plane was struggling to fly over wartime Germany on its first mission with half the crew wounded or dead when Franz Stigler's plane came up behind him. What happened next wound defy imagination. Charlie and Franz would finally meet as old men when they felt safe discussing the situation.

An account of the World War II action in the Pacific involving American Navy and Marine airmen, with information on the pilots, planes, carriers and island bases, battles, and combat techniques.

The author's memoir of his tour of duty in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot beginning in 1965.

Recreates the author's years as a B-17 bomber pilot flying missions over northern Italy, German, and Bulgaria during World War II. Ultimately he was shot down and taken prisoner.

Relates, through diaries and letters, the story of the crew of the Black Cat, the last bomber shot down over Germany.

A war-time memoir of Major Dick Winters, who assumed command of Easy Company, known as the "Band of Brothers, " when they parachuted into France on D-Day, and describes their trek across Europe, the Battle of the Bulge, liberation of concentration camps, and capture of Hitler's alpine retreat.