fighter pilots

Profiles great pilots from around the world including their accomplishments, biographical details, branch or service, rank, unit, important military engagements, and service awards.

A personal diary written during World War I by the German war ace, also known as "The Red Baron.".

Biography of Eugene Jacques Bullard, the world's first black fighter pilot. Discusses Eugene's early life in racist Georgia and how he fled to France, joined the French Foreign Legion, learned to fly, and distinguished himself in both World War I and World War II.

Focuses on Ezra's interaction with the pilot Hera Syndulla.

"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). The theft--just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953--electrified the world and incited Kim's bloody vengeance. During the Korean War the United States brutally carpet bombed the North, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and giving the Kim dynasty, as Harden reveals, the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. intelligence and interrogation files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding escape adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world's longest-lasting totalitarian state"--.

Luke, C-3PO, and R2-D2 are stranded on a mysterious planet where a strange villain challenges Luke to a duel.

Told in graphic novel format, the story of Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, from his beginnings as a cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to his death at the age of twenty-five and his enduring legacy.

The author presents detailed analyses of the Air Force's premier fighter planes, exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams, an insider's look at the people behind the planes and weapons, and combat strategies and training techniques used by the U.S. Air Force.

Edward Logan recounts his experiences serving as a B-17 pilot in the 15th Air Force in Italy during World War II, chronicling his two years of training, entry into combat, and years as a bomber pilot in Europe, and focusing on an operation that resulted in his plane going down behind enemy lines, forcing Logan and his crew to evade enemy troops and return to their base.