Presents a classic edition of the 1961 satire of military bureaucracy, focusing on the story of John Yossarian, a bombadier in World War II who is trying to avoid getting killed while at the same time dealing with a colonel who keeps upping the number of missions he must fly.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

A young man listens to the heroic tales of his great-great-uncle, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, and learns all about this historic group's adventures in training and as professional pilots in World War Two.

Drawing on years of research and firsthand interviews with both American and Japanese survivors, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy draws a gripping portrait of men bravely serving their countries in war and the advent of a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombing, that nearly halted the most powerful nation in the world. In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new weapon: kamikazes--the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons....

Winner, 2017 Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States, New York Council * From the historian who has been acclaimed as "doing for the Navy what popular historian Stephen Ambrose did for the Army," here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower.

"Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith. Smith is one of the most...

The comprehensive history of the 368th Fighter Group, one of the most productive fighter groups of World War II. Comprised of the 395th FS "Panzer Dusters", the 396th "Thunder Bums," and the 397th "Jabo Angels," the Group distinguished itself during six campaigns in Europe and was the recipient of the Presidential Unit Citation. Before the D-Day invasion, the Group earned a solid reputation while operating fighter sweeps and attacks on marshalling...

A military memoir of the author's experience from the time Hitlermarched into Poland in September 1939 to his discharge from active duty in January 1950.

Chronicles the lives and experiences of the men who served during World War I in the newly created U.S. Air Service, including the author's father, Charles H. Woolley, who, along with the men of the 94th, 95th, and 49th Aero Squadrons, confronted the enemy for the first time from the air.