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41) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Relates the true story of two World War II airmen, one American and one German, who put aside the conflict and helped each other to safety in the wake of a damaged aircraft and describes their meeting again forty-seven years later.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This high-interest volume introduces readers to the exciting world of World War II aircraft. Through detailed diagrams of cockpits, engines, and weapons systems, readers are given a birds-eye view inside an impressive collection of World War II aircraft, including the United States P-51D Mustang, which shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied fighter plane. Also included are such heavy hitters as Japans Zero fighter, Germanys Messerschmitt...
44) Wings of war: the World War II fighter plane that saved the Allies and the believers who made it fly
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled...
46) Last B-24
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Dive to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea in search of the Tulsamerican, a B-24 bomber that crashed off the coast of Croatia during World War II. The Croatian Navy and some of the world's leading underwater archaeologists work to investigate the wreckage. Join the team of archaeologist and forensics experts as they search for the crew and identify their remains.
47) Bomber boys
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From 1939 to 1945, air power was the only way of striking back at Nazi Germany and so, thousands of young men in bomber crews (all volunteers, average age 22) fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe. The story of the RAF Bomber Command is one of endurance, teamwork and exceptional heroism, but it is also a story dogged by controversy.
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
December 7, 1941: A recreation combining actual footage and historically accurate dramatized footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor newsreel: Special report on the Pearl Harbor attack. Formal Japanese surrender: Newsreel footage of the Japanese surrender from Tokyo Bay and the USS Missouri. Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter: An Air Force training film that dramatizes how to distinguish the Japanese Zero fighter plane from...
52) Lancaster skies
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Douglas Miller, a broken, solitary Spitfire ace who survived the Battle of Britain, transfers to Bomber Command, determined to take the war to the skies over Nazi Germany. Miller must take the place of a Lancaster bomber crew's cherished and respected skipper, who was killed in action. Though the crew is against him, he will try to gain their trust and overcome the darkness in his past to become the leader they so desperately need in the pivotal aerial...
54) Flyboys
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, tells the story of the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of American men who volunteered to fight for the French before the U.S. entered World War I and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state. In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate the tiny country and its 600,000 settlers. A second Holocaust was in the making. Outnumbered sixty to one, the Israelis had no allies, no regular army, no air force,...
58) Hiroshima
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source material to provide an overview of the events that led up to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and the impact of this decision.
60) Flying tigers
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Heroic story of American airmen fighting the Japanese over China in early World War II.
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