US Air Force

An account of the battle of Kham Duc, one of the least known and most misunderstood battles in the American Phase of the Second Indochina War (1959 to 1975)....

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....

In 1940 Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and America was not yet at war with Japan. But China had been trying to stave off Japanese aggression for three years....

There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James "Jug" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific....

In the spirit of The Right Stuff, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is a story about the pursuit of meaning in our lives - and the fulfillment of our dreams....

In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single US Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy....

Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of the pivotal battles of the Pacific War....

This is a narrative of WW2 as airmen lived it. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines....

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....

The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents - publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye....

From the authors of the best-selling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis....

New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, popular host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, provided an insightful look....

A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force....

Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise it was a morning from hell....

…Ben Het has tanks in the wire! “Hawk Claw is engaging,” the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile ever from a helicopter in combat. ...

In his classic 1970 memoir, Powers reveals the full story behind what happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history....

"MiGs Over Nevada: Declassified Accounts of Technological Tradecraft at Area 51" Step into the classified world of Area 51, the CIA's top-secret ...

Based on interviews with Japanese and American survivors, letters, diaries, and other primary sources, Danger's Hour explores the May 11, 1945, attack on the USS Bunker Hill....

On his 19th birthday, James E. Brown tries to fake to his flight instructor that he has flown before. On his 21st birthday, Brown's on his way home after logging 85 missions in a P-47 fighter over Italy, France, and Germany. Brown's stories surrounding his training and combat experiences....

After the Apollo program put 12 men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible....