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FLYBOYS
A true story of courage
Eight Navy pilots, shot down and captured in World War II, who disappeared from nearly all records. New, in dust jacket. (398p., 63 illus., notes, biblio., index.)…
HET VERGETEN SQUADRON
Het verhaal de Nederlandse vliegers, die tegen Japan hun vergeten strijd vochten.
The memoirs of a Dutch bomber squadron commander in the Pacific in World War II; Dutch participation in the Pacific theater has been largely forgotten. Uncommon in Europe, rare on…
THE PACIFIC CRUSADERS
The 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, in combat against the Japanese from 1942 to the end. A rare World War II history of an important unit. A very good…
THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
How the policies and perceptions that led to Korea and Vietnam were formed during World War II. Reading copy, covers partially detached, extensive underlining….
INTO THE RISING SUN
In Their Own Words, World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. In their own words, World War II’s Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat.
SUBMARINE UPHOLDER
Commanded by Malcolm David Wanklyn, the most highly decorated Royal Navy submarine officer of World War II, lost off Tripoli in 1942. A very good copy, spine head & Tail…
MEDAL OF HONOR
Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present
Provides the biographies of eleven recipients, from all branches of the military, in the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. A very good copy, spine head & tail…
TOBACCO CARD: “Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP.”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 6 of 50 manufactured for W.D. & H.O. Wills Ltd.’s “Britain’s Defenders” series. Issued in 1915, before Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the…
THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS
…who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II and went on to build modern America.” A fine copy in like dust jacket (237 pages, illustrations, index…
MALTA BESIEGED
Supplying Malta during the World War II siege, by one of the island’s inhabitants. A very good copy, light wear to corners, light foxing in front matter, inscription on front…
RUSSIAN MOTOR VEHICLES
The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917
Vintage photographs and drawings illustrate this history of the Russian motor vehicle industry prior to World War I.
THE HIGH ROAD TO TOKYO BAY
The AAF in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
One of the “U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II” commemerative series. A very good copy (34p., 17 illus., 4 maps, biblio)….