aerial operations

Presents an overview of carrier aviation in 1964 and a definition of the rules of engagement in Vietnam for nine years.

Examines how armies, navies, and air forces from different countries lived and fought together during World War I.

An account of the best of the pilots who won fame in the skies during the first World War: Guynemer, Richthofen, Lufbery, Rickenbacker, and others.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese air force launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that changed the course of World War II. Period photographs and 4-color maps of battles provide readers with an incredible learning experience, along with spellbinding eyewitness reports as sidebars.

An illustrated overview of the Second World War atomic bombing of Hiroshima that covers the scientific and political lead-up to the bombing, as well as its immediate and long-term impact on Japan and the world.

Tells the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, through the experiences of young pilot Marie Mitchell who joined the unit in 1943 in response to a call for pilots to fill the jobs left vacant when male military pilots were called to combat duty.

Fighter pilots are the elite of the elite. It can take years of training to produce a fighter pilot and even longer to produce a plane that is worthy of their skills. Yet a dogfight can last only minutes.

Tells the story of David Mattingley, a young Australian pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, discussing his lifelong passion for planes, his training, and experiences in the military, and describing the events of November 29, 1944, when David was critically wounded while flying his twenty-third mission over Germany.

Describes how British and American planes broke Hitler's stranglehold on Europe and made bombing raids leading to the D-Day invasion.

Text and photographs describe the first war-time aviators, escapades, skirmishes and battles, and depicts types of aircraft used during the first World War.