aerial operations, american

Chronicles the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American fighter pilots who flew during World War II.

The story of the war in Vietnam, told in text and pictures, examines the history of wars in United States, traces the United States involvement from the early 1960s through 1975, discusses the causes and effects, leaders, major battles, military uniforms, guerrilla warfare, aerial bombing and weaponry and provides some activity sheets for children.

November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves facing a Japanese fleet--and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home? The tribal leaders' unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-seek, and, ultimately, the return of a long-renounced ritual: head-hunting. This survival story features a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds.--From publisher description.

Explores the extraordinary, enduring commitment among U.S. soldiers to leave no one behind. On the morning of January 20, 1944, Major Marion "Ryan" McCown Jr., a Marine Corps pilot, took off on a dangerous mission against the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul. His plane went down that day and was lost in the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Fast forward sixty years later as Major George Eyster V found himself in the same sweltering, impenetrable rain forest searching for MIA's. That's not all he would find there.

Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, survived in the open ocean after his plane crashed in the Pacific.

During World War II, a few, carefully selected women in the US and the UK were briefly given the unprecedented opportunity to fly military aircraft. Yet the story of these pioneer women pilots is made even more intriguing by the fact that, despite many notable similarities in the utilization and organization of the women in their respective countries, they experienced radically different fates.

Fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi faces the destruction of everything she knows and a new life living among the enemy, after American bombers attack her city with with napalm, leaving the city in ruins.