Contrary to the impression left by most World War II books, the war was not fought in black and white. The planes, the people and the times were the most colorful in history.
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I already owned the Bomber Command book in the same series and picked up Fighter Command at a recent airshow. Both books offer beautifully stunning color photographs taken in WWII. The pictures alone make this book worthwhile...whether you are a vintage aircraft enthusiast or an amateur historian. But the stories which fill in the rest of the book are also great reading. Told by many different people who were there, you get a better sense of what people had to endure during wartime. Alongside with the color photographs, it makes the war seem not so distant. It WWII as you're not used to seeing it (unless you were there, I suppose).
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Once we got into advanced training with a hot 600 hp airplane, we flying cadets considered it the hot rod we never could afford during the Depression. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
propeller shop, fighter group, relief tube, nose art, belly tanks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Cross, Bob Kuhnert, Bob Sand, Eighth Air Force, Bill Skinner, Jan Houston Monaghan, Don Allen, North Africa, Colonel Jenkins, Jack Monaghan, Phil Savides, Sergeant Harmon, Bob Hope, Castel Volturno, East Anglia, English Channel, Major Kinnard, Roger Fraleigh, Steeple Morden, Army Air Corps, Byron Trent, Dick Perley, Fred Bamberger, Marvin Arthur, Marvin Bledsoe New!
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Once we got into advanced training with a hot 600 hp airplane, we flying cadets considered it the hot rod we never could afford during the Depression. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
propeller shop, fighter group, relief tube, nose art, belly tanks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Cross, Bob Kuhnert, Bob Sand, Eighth Air Force, Bill Skinner, Jan Houston Monaghan, Don Allen, North Africa, Colonel Jenkins, Jack Monaghan, Phil Savides, Sergeant Harmon, Bob Hope, Castel Volturno, East Anglia, English Channel, Major Kinnard, Roger Fraleigh, Steeple Morden, Army Air Corps, Byron Trent, Dick Perley, Fred Bamberger, Marvin Arthur, Marvin Bledsoe New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Air Force (Defending the Nation) by John Hamilton on page 13, page 43, and page 98
- The Air Force: 2 by Lawrence Landis in Front Matter, and page 12
- Serenade to the Big Bird by Bert Stiles on page 139
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