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| Fleet
Admiral King. By Ernest King. Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306707721. Our Price:
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Autobiography
by Fleet Admiral King. In August 1928, following flight training and further
service at sea, King became Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
The next year, he moved into command of the Naval Air Station, Hampton
Roads, Virginia, and, in 1930, became captain of the large aircraft carrier
USS Lexington (CV-2). Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1933, he was made Chief
of the Bureau of Aeronautics. During the later 1930s, he commanded the
Battle Fleet's aircraft carriers. The Pearl Harbor disaster brought Admiral
King back to Washington, D.C., as Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet in December
1941. He also became Chief of Naval Operations in March 1942, holding both
positions through the rest of World War II, in which he guided the Navy's
plans and global operations.
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| Hardcover
new edition (1 December, 1976) |
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| Master
of Sea Power : A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Classics of
Naval Literature) by Thomas B. Buell, John B. Lundstrom. United States
Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557500924 Our Price: £0.00 |
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In
August 1928, following flight training and further service at sea, King
became Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. The next year, he
moved into command of the Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia, and,
in 1930, became captain of the large aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2).
Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1933, he was made Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
During the later 1930s, he commanded the Battle Fleet's aircraft carriers.
The Pearl Harbor disaster brought Admiral King back to Washington, D.C.,
as Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet in December 1941. He also became Chief
of Naval Operations in March 1942, holding both positions through the rest
of World War II, in which he guided the Navy's plans and global operations.
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| Hardcover
- 609 pages (May 1995) |
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| The
Price of Honor: The World War One Letters of Naval Aviator Kenneth MacLeish.
By Kenneth MacLeish, Geoffrey L. Rossano (Editor); United States Naval
Institute.; ISBN: 0870215841. RRP: |
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The
World War One Letters of Naval Aviator Kenneth MacLeish;
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| Hardcover
- 242 pages (June 1991) |
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| Admiral
John H. Towers, The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy. By Clark G Reynolds.
Naval Inst. P, US; ISBN: 0870210319. Our Price: £32.95 |
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Reynolds
provides a thorough and complete biography of a man who made major contributions
to the Allied success in the Second World War. John Henry Towers graduated
from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906 and requested to be assigned to aviation
duty. He was taught to fly by the first Naval Aviator, Lt. Theodore Ellyson,
and qualified as Naval Aviator Number 3 in September 1911. At the Navy's
first aviation camp in San Diego, Lt. Towers conducted the first testing
associated with development of the original Curtiss seaplanes. In every
chapter in the development of Naval Aviation, John Towers was there. He
commanded the first aviation station, the Pensacola Base that became the
flight training school for Navy pilots. As senior aviator in the office
of the Chief of Naval Operations during World War I, his astute planning
and leadership guided U.S. Naval Air Forces. Towers, an early advocate
of US naval air power, struggled for recognition and promotion between
the wars. His administrative ability during the war was largely responsible
for the fact that the right aircraft were produced and delivered. He organized
the expansion of the Navy from 2,000 to nearly 10,000 aircraft and directed
Naval Aviation in the opening period of World War II.Insistence on leading
a combat command resulted in his appointment as Commander Naval Air Forces
Pacific Fleet where he directed the expansion of the carrier forces and
led the air arm of the largest fleet ever assembled in history. His contributions
were in large measure responsible for the victory in the Pacific. This
is a book which describes the nuts and bolts of putting naval airpower
to work.
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| Hardcover
(March 1992) |
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Book Category: WORLD WAR TWO BIOGRAPHIES
| Admiral
Halsey's Story. By William Frederick Halsey. Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306707705.
Our Price: £54.50 |
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Admiral
William Frederick Halsey, whilst in command as COMSPAC, 3rd U.S. Pacific
Fleet, played a decisive role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. As his carrier
force entered Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941, he and the men under his
command looked at the carnage in the smoke and flames billowing over Pearl
Harbor and could barely control their rage. Halsey later led the Allied
forces in the Southwest Pacific and save the Guadacanal landings as well
as inflicting major defeats on the Japanese Navy in the several naval battles
in and around the Solomon Islands. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Halsey
led the largest carrier task force ever created into the Philippine Islands
and made some controversial decisions that would invoke many debates long
after his death.
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| Hardcover
(1 December, 1976) |
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| Bluejacket
Admiral: The Navy Career of Chick Hayward by John T. Hayward, Carl
W. Borklund. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557501890. £27.08 |
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This
autobiography covers Vice Adm. John T. "Chick" Hayward's long and colorful
career which spanned the decades from the US naval aviation's infancy to
the dawn of the jet age. He was one of those rare people who was eminently
successful yet humanly colorful, a high school dropout who became a nuclear
physicist. The story of his role in the development of the atomic bomb
and his interaction with the other Los Alamos scientists is justification
enough for a biography, but Hayward's contributions to the twentieth-century
U.S. Navy go significantly beyond that period. Hayward saw combat in World
War II and participated in the Korean War and Cuban missile crisis, and
helped make many of the decisions that shaped the present-day navy.
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| Hardcover
- 352 pages (August 1, 2000) |
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| Fleet
Admiral King. By Ernest King. Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306707721. Our Price:
£67.50 |
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Autobiography
by Fleet Admiral King. In August 1928, following flight training and further
service at sea, King became Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
The next year, he moved into command of the Naval Air Station, Hampton
Roads, Virginia, and, in 1930, became captain of the large aircraft carrier
USS Lexington (CV-2). Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1933, he was made Chief
of the Bureau of Aeronautics. During the later 1930s, he commanded the
Battle Fleet's aircraft carriers. The Pearl Harbor disaster brought Admiral
King back to Washington, D.C., as Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet in December
1941. He also became Chief of Naval Operations in March 1942, holding both
positions through the rest of World War II, in which he guided the Navy's
plans and global operations.
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| Hardcover
new edition (1 December, 1976) |
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| Master
of Sea Power : A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Classics of
Naval Literature) by Thomas B. Buell, John B. Lundstrom. United States
Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557500924 Our Price: £0.00 |
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In
August 1928, following flight training and further service at sea, King
became Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. The next year, he
moved into command of the Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia, and,
in 1930, became captain of the large aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2).
Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1933, he was made Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
During the later 1930s, he commanded the Battle Fleet's aircraft carriers.
The Pearl Harbor disaster brought Admiral King back to Washington, D.C.,
as Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet in December 1941. He also became Chief
of Naval Operations in March 1942, holding both positions through the rest
of World War II, in which he guided the Navy's plans and global operations.
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| Hardcover
- 609 pages (May 1995) |
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| Ace!:
A Marine Night-Fighter Pilot in World War II. by Col. Bruce R. Porter with
Eric Hammel. ["Pappy" Boyington, intro.] Pacifica Press. ISBN: 093553312.
£13.52 |
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Originally
published in 1985, Porter recounts his
career beginning
as a naval aviation cadet in 1940 to his service in the South Pacific and
concluding with a rare double night kill and earning the desgnation of
"ace" over Okinawa. Here are the enthusiastic recommendations of five Marine
Medal of Honor winners: ". . . reflects the keen
analytical mind
of a fighter pilot's technical skills projected into combat.
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| Hardcover
- (1998) |
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| Admiral
John H. Towers, The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy. By Clark G Reynolds.
Naval Inst. P, US; ISBN: 0870210319. Our Price: £32.95 |
|
Reynolds
provides a thorough and complete biography of a man who made major contributions
to the Allied success in the Second World War. John Henry Towers graduated
from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906 and requested to be assigned to aviation
duty. He was taught to fly by the first Naval Aviator, Lt. Theodore Ellyson,
and qualified as Naval Aviator Number 3 in September 1911. At the Navy's
first aviation camp in San Diego, Lt. Towers conducted the first testing
associated with development of the original Curtiss seaplanes. In every
chapter in the development of Naval Aviation, John Towers was there. He
commanded the first aviation station, the Pensacola Base that became the
flight training school for Navy pilots. As senior aviator in the office
of the Chief of Naval Operations during World War I, his astute planning
and leadership guided U.S. Naval Air Forces. Towers, an early advocate
of US naval air power, struggled for recognition and promotion between
the wars. His administrative ability during the war was largely responsible
for the fact that the right aircraft were produced and delivered. He organized
the expansion of the Navy from 2,000 to nearly 10,000 aircraft and directed
Naval Aviation in the opening period of World War II.Insistence on leading
a combat command resulted in his appointment as Commander Naval Air Forces
Pacific Fleet where he directed the expansion of the carrier forces and
led the air arm of the largest fleet ever assembled in history. His contributions
were in large measure responsible for the victory in the Pacific. This
is a book which describes the nuts and bolts of putting naval airpower
to work.
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| Hardcover
(March 1992) |
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Book Category:
US POSTWAR AND MODERN BIOGRAPHIES
| Hornet's
Nest : The Experiences of One of the Navy's First Female Fighter Pilots
by Missy Cummings (Mary L. Cummings). Universe.com; ISBN: 0595001904. £16.63 |
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Missy
Cummings Hornet's Nest is a refreshingly truthful look at the life of
a young female pilot breaking ground into an area that previously was off-limits
to women. She vividly describes the trials and tribulations laid before
her and other women beginning the journey to become fighter pilots. She
has given us all a glimpse of what a person must do to attain ones goals.
Cummings' Hornet's Nest is a must read for anybody who wants the real inside
story about the United States Navy." As Missy Cummings takes you through
her naval academy days and her times in the phillipines and all over you
will get a great idea of what like is like for her and for others like
her while you have fun reading an inspiring book.
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| Paperback
- 416 pages (April 24, 2000) |
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| She's
Just Another Navy Pilot: An Aviator's Sea Journal . By Loree Draude Hirschman,
Dave Hirschman . Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557503354. Our Price: £18.27 |
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This
book is the diary of "just another navy pilot"
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| Hardcover
- 264 pages (12 May, 2000) |
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| Captain
Hook : A Pilot's Tragedy and Triumph in the Vietnam War. By Wynn F. Foster,
James B. Stockdale. Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557502560. Our Price:
£23.69 RRP: |
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This
work by Wynn F. Foster, a retired Navy pilot who flew more than 200 combat
missions over Korea and Vietnam, lost an arm in combat over North Vietnam.
This book, Captain Hook, describes that fateful mission and his successful
struggle to remain on active duty in the aftermath.
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| Hardcover
- 242 pages (September 1992) |
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| Feet
Wet: Reflections of a Carrier Pilot. By Paul T Gillcrist. Schiffer Publishing;
ISBN: 0764302841. Our Price: £24.95 |
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Rear
Admiral Gillcrest, USN, a veteran US Navy carrier pilot recounts his nearly
thirty years of experience, including combat flights in Vietnam, and explains
how carrier aircraft are launched and landed.
Rear Admiral Paul
T. Gillcrist, a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, served also as a test pilot and
weapons delivery instructor, and actively flew from sixteen aircraft carriers
for over twenty-seven years. The author writes with authority as
a former fighter
squadron commanding officer who recorded 167 combat missions over Vietnam
flying the F-8 Crusader. Subsequently, he commanded a carrier air wing
and finally served, the rank of Rear Admiral, as the wing commander for
all pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. His pilot's logbook includes over
6,000 hours, in seventy-one different types of aircraft from 1952 to 1981.
He retired in 1985 as Assistant
Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations(air Warfare).
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| Hardcover
- 351 pages 2nd revised edition (July 1997) |
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| Vulture's
Row: Thirty Years in Naval Aviation, by Paul T Gillcrist. Schiffer Publishing,
Ltd.; ISBN: 0764300474 |
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Told
in anecdotal form, Vulture's Row tells a fascinating story about an important
period covering nearly one half of the entire history of U.S. naval aviation.
"Vulture's Row" is an area dubbed by naval flyers, on the island structure
of an aircraft carrier where pilots who aren't flying can overlook carrier
launchings and recoveries on the deck below. This new book by acclaimed
author Paul Gillcrist is a series of true stories about the U.S. Navy carrier
aviation from the perspective of a Navy pilot who spent thirty-three years
directly involved in that exciting profession. The book begins with a series
of vignettes in the period of the mid-1950s when the U.S. Navy introduced
swept wing, jet-powered fighters into the aircraft carrier navy, flying
from straight-deck carriers whose flight decks were made of teak wood.
The thread of stories follows the author's career in chronological sequence,
in various venues throughout the Navy. There are accounts from his first
carrier deployment to the western Pacific, followed by events as a weapons
delivery instructor at the predecessor to TOPGUN in El Centro, California.
Some of his experiences as a Navy pilot are recorded in a section about
Patuxent River, Maryland, the Navy's test center. Additional episodes include
an
unforgettable
wing-walking flight. flying Japanese Zeros in the movie TORA!TORA!TORA!
and the author's subsequent tour of duty in Pentagon conducting proficiency
flights from our nation's capital. There are also accounts of combat missions
over Vietnam and the author's experiences in both wing commander jobs,
flying the F-4 Phantom II and
the F-14
Tomcat. The last story is about his two flights, as a fifty-two year old
Admiral, in the controversial F-20 Tigershark.
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| Call
Sign Revlon : The Life and Death of Navy Fighter Pilot Kara Hultgreen.
By Sally Spears. Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557508097. Our Price:
£18.27 |
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That
the death of Navy Lt. Kara Hultgren has caused and will continue to cause
controversy is without doubt...see several of the reviews on this web page.
"Call Sign Revlon" has its own opinion, which many will doubtless disagree
with, but considering that it's written by the mother of the deceased,
it is an astonishingly even-handed account of the life and death of the
Navy's first female fleet fighter pilot.
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| Hardcover
- 320 pages (November 1998) |
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| Sailors
in the Sky : Memoir of a Navy Aircrewman in the Korean War by Jack Sauter.
ISBN: 0786401133. Our Price: £23.35 |
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So
many books have been written about the adventures of military pilots that
you'd think that only commissioned officers flew. Actually, there were
and are many non-commissioned flyers as well. These enlisted gunners, radio
operators, navigators, flight engineers, and technicians...who were sent
into the air right out of high school...had many interesting stories to
tell too. Until recently, their adventures have been largely ignored. Thanks
to authors like Jack Sauter, however, the story of the enlisted military
aircrewman is finally seeing light of day. Sauter was a Navy enlisted man
who flew as a radar operator on Douglas Skyraiders around the time of the
Korean War.
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| The
Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown, by Theodore Taylor. Avon Books (Trd); ISBN:
0380976897. Our Price: £14.03 |
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Most
modern histories of the U.S. Navy and of African Americans mention Ensign
Jesse Leroy Brown, the first African American naval aviator. This is the
first full-scale biography of Brown, who never saw his twenty-fifth birthday
but managed large achievements in that short span. Born a sharecropper's
son in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Brown got through high school, into college,
and then into naval aviation training by a combination of scholarship,
athletic prowess, sheer determination, formidable control of his
temper, and the complexity of race relations at the time. He found plenty
of enemies, but also friends in the unlikeliest places. Married and by
then a father, he went to Korea in 1950 and was shot down covering the
marine retreat from Chosin. The squadron mate who crash-landed in the vain
hope of prying Brown out of the wreckage received the Medal of Honor. A
compelling portrait of a quiet hero, of the racial climate between 1926
and 1950, and of the last days of propeller-driven naval aviation.
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| Hardcover
- 300 pages 1 Ed edition (November 1998) |
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| Phantom
over Vietnam : Fighter Pilot, USMC, by John Trotti. Presidio Press; ISBN:
0891415998 |
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A straight-forward
memoir of two-tour US Marine Phantom "F-4 jock" fighter pilot, John Trotti.
His story brings out the frustrations and bravery of the American
aerial warrior in Vietnam. Trotti uses the exotic fighter pilot's language,
but explains the meanings in context, so the readar understands what is
going on and can visualize every movement of the aircraft. The book follows
Trotti from his arrival in Vietnam in the war's early and heady days, then
notes the apparent changes when the optimism fades. After an interval spent
training newer aviators stateside, Trotti returns for more. His descriptions
of the flights are weighthed down by detail on such topics as the F-4 Phantom's
mechanics, aero-navigation and airborne communications protocol
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| Paperback
Reprint edition (November 1996) |
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Book Category:
OTHER BIOGRAPHIES (GERMAN, JAPANESE, ITALIAN)
| The
First and the Last. By Adolf Galland. Buccaneer Books Inc; ISBN: 0899667287.
Our Price: £25.59 |
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This
is Adolph Galland's autobiographical account of his experiences throughout
World War Two. It starts with him as a flight commander on the Western
Front then progresses through as he assumes the role as the Inspector General
of the Fighter Arm of the Luftwaffe and then back to commanding a flight
of jet fighters right up to the German surrender. He had well over 100
air combat victories despite being promoted to general at age 30 (the youngest
of any of the war).
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| Hardcover
(June 1990) |
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OTHER BIOGRAPHIES (GERMAN, JAPANESE,
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