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  • UNSUNG EAGLES
    JAY A. STOUT
    The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of large...

    $152.99

  • THE FIRST HELLCAT ACE
    HAMILTON MCWHORTER / JAY A. STOUT
    "This memoir is a tribute to the author's service in World War II. It is a realistic look at the life of a carrier pilot, eschewing any attempt at glory-seeking, instead delving into their concerns, duties and hardships." — WWII History Magazine Although he objected to being characterized as such, Hamilton McWhorter III's service to family and country make him a standout among ...

    $267.99

  • THE MEN WHO KILLED THE LUFTWAFFE
    JAY A STOUT
    San Diego Book Award Winner: "An excellent overview of the U.S. Army Air Forces' war against Nazi Germany." —Barrett Tillman, author of  Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942–1945   Bronze medalist, Military Writers Society of America   When World War II began, the U.S. Army Air Corps numbered only forty-five thousand men and a few thousand aircraft—hardly enough to defend ...

    $249.00

  • FIGHTER GROUP
    JAY A STOUT
    From a historian, retired fighter pilot, and combat aviation specialist, "the finest book yet written about the air war over Europe during World War II." ( Air & Space, Smithsonian magazine ) As described by award-winning author Jay A. Stout, the 352nd Fighter Group was one of the Eighth Air Force's most successful fighter units and counted history's two top-scoring P-51 aces a...

    $229.00

  • FORTRESS PLOESTI
    JAY A. STOUT
    A comprehensive account of the World War II Allied bombing campaign to destroy pivotal Romanian oil refineries—by the retired Marine Corps fighter pilot. Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and ...

    $229.00

  • VANISHED HERO
    JAY A. STOUT
    “A superb, edge-of-the-seat account of [Elwyn] Righetti’s stellar combat career during the final months of the air war against Germany” (Eric Hammel, author of Two Flags over Iwo Jima). A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most unknown, yet most compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II. Arriving late to the war, he...

    $229.00