Air Force

Two men possess vital information on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system....

A widening gulf between performance and accountability has caused history to be kinder to the American generals of World War II than to those of later wars....

When murderous bands of militiamen begin roaming the western United States and attacking government agencies, it will take a dedicated group of the nation's finest and toughest civilian airmen to put an end to the homegrown insurgency....

Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn't your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment....

A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the ground in Occupied France....

When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity....

Selected for Navy flight training as an experiment in 1972, Rosemary Mariner and her five fellow graduates from the inaugural group of female Naval Aviators racked up an impressive roster of achievements and firsts. This is the story of their struggles and triumphs....

Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold....

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great 20th-century writers....

During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead....

In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries....

Gen. Larry Spencer, USAF (Ret.) was born and raised on the Horseshoe—a tough inner-city street in southeast Washington D.C. The Horseshoe was a hard neighborhood where fights were common, and the school systems were second-rate....

Pathfinder Pioneer gives us vivid insights into the genesis of the American air campaign, told with the humor and humility that captures the heart and soul of our Greatest Generation....

Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer....

In 1973, a gunman fired five shots into Colonel Joe Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot....

A single pilot can fly the U.S. Air Force's powerful fighter plane, DreamStar - and he's a KGB mole....

Award-winning author John Wukovits brings to life the forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive....

Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith flew 35 bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only 20 years old....

Hitler's Jet Plane fills an important gap in the history of the Luftwaffe and of aviation in general with new research which discloses how the first military jet plane failed to make its mark on World War II....

On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....