aerial operations

The author chronicles his heroic days as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, describing his training and his twelve-month stint of rescuing during which he amazingly went untouched by enemy fire.

Introduces the ace pilots of World War I, their military aircraft, aerial tactics and stunts, and profiles such prominent aviators as the Red Baron and Eddie Rickenbacker.

Profiles Claire Lee Chennault who, after retiring from the United States Army Air Corps, volunteered as an advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek and led both Chinese and American air troops against Japan during World War II.

An account of important World War II battles in Europe which involved the use of paratroopers.

Photography, maps, and eyewitness accounts describe the War in Vietnam.

Treats the development of the German air force under Herman Goering and its part in World War II, describing the airplanes and other equipment and the destruction of the air force by the end of the war.

Profusely illustrated text traces the development of military aviation and surveys the equipment, personnel, and events of the air war between Germany and the Allies during World War II.

Decades after being shot down in Occupied Europe, World War II veteran Marshall Stone returns to the crash site, where he finds himself remembering what happened in the days following the crash, when local residents, including a young woman in a blue beret, risked their lives to help him escape from the Nazis, and vows to find out what happened to his rescuers.