American Military Aviation
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American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm
- Centennial of Flight Series
- By: Charles J. Gross
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Since the Wright brothers made their famed flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, aviation has emerged as the indispensable arm of American military power. In this detailed and informative history, Charles J. Gross traces its development from the technological antecedents of the Wright brothers' triumph through the air war for Kosovo. Drawing on examples from all periods and all service branches, he explains the roles of politics, economics, and technology in shaping air power in the US armed forces and assesses the actual impact of military aviation.
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American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm
- Centennial of Flight Series
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Series: Centennial of Flight
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-03-16
- Language: English
- Since the Wright brothers made their famed flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, aviation has emerged as the indispensable arm of American military power....
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MacArthur’s Air Force
- American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51
- By: Bill Yenne
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the 20th century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth, and Seventh) under his command possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft, and 922 transports.
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Don’t Bother
- By Maxwell Edison on 01-21-20
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MacArthur’s Air Force
- American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-17-19
- Language: English
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General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the 20th century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked....
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The Aviator
- A Novel of the Sino-American War (The Aviator: Stories of Future Wars Series, Book 1)
- By: Craig DiLouie
- Narrated by: Garrett Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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In the near future, the United States has fought a short, bloody war with China in the Pacific. The fighting is over, but the US Navy maintains a blockade. Some call it the First Sino-American War. Others worry it is the start of World War III. In a prison cell in Beijing, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp tells his story about the victory in the Battle of Taiwan and how he ended up in a Chinese show trial, accused of crimes against humanity. With his life in the balance, Jack will have to choose between survival and participating in his captors’ lies.
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A must listen.
- By ellen derego on 05-31-21
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The Aviator
- A Novel of the Sino-American War (The Aviator: Stories of Future Wars Series, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Garrett Brown
- Series: The Aviator: Stories of Future Wars, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-25-21
- Language: English
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In the near future, the United States has fought a short, bloody war with China in the Pacific. The fighting is over, but the US Navy maintains a blockade. Some call it the First Sino-American War. Others worry it is the start of World War III....
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The Shouting Wind
- Book Two of The Sunlit Silence Series of World War II in the Air
- By: Frank A. Mason
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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From award-winning author Frank A. Mason comes The Shouting Wind, a gripping second installment in the Sunlit Silence Series. Set during the Battle of Britain, the novel follows Trip Gibson, an American fighter pilot who joins the British RAF in 1940. As Trip faces relentless enemy fire and endures the dark days of the Blitz, he witnesses the resilience of the British people. This powerful WWII novel takes readers into the strife-filled skies over Britain and reveals the true cost of heroism in one of history’s most pivotal battles. Frank A. Mason's extensive military background, ...
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Read it don't Listen
- By Kindle Customer on 10-02-24
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The Shouting Wind
- Book Two of The Sunlit Silence Series of World War II in the Air
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-11-24
- Language: English
- From award-winning author Frank A. Mason comes The Shouting Wind, a gripping second installment in the Sunlit Silence Series. Set during the Battle...
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Devotion
- An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
- By: Adam Makos
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy’s first Black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar.
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BUY A HIGHER CALL FIRST - IS MUCH BETTER
- By Count B on 06-29-18
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Devotion
- An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
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Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....
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The Few
- The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs
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The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940—over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation.
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Absolutely wonderful story!!
- By MStewart on 12-12-24
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The Few
- The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 08-27-24
- Language: English
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The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940.
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Damn Lucky
- One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
- By: Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, John Luckadoo
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was a world away from John Luckadoo’s hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. But when the Japanese attacked the American naval base on December 7, 1941, he didn’t hesitate to join the military. Trained as a pilot with the United States Air Force, Second Lieutenant Luckadoo was assigned to the 100th Bomb Group stationed in Thorpe Abbotts, England. Between June and October 1943, he flew B-17 Flying Fortresses over France and Germany on bombing runs devised to destroy the Nazi war machine.
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must read
- By td godfrey on 10-06-22
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Damn Lucky
- One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, John Luckadoo
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-19-22
- Language: English
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The incredible true story of John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who survived 25 missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in WWII....
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The Tuskegee Airmen's Mission to Berlin
- A Fly on the Wall History
- By: Jomike Tejido, Thomas Kingsley Troupe
- Narrated by: Anonymous
- Length: 13 mins
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Through clouds and over mountains and farmland... Two flies accompany listeners on an adrenaline-pumping flight over war-torn Europe as the U.S. Army Air Corps' Tuskegee airmen take on a heroic, history-making mission during World War II.
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The Tuskegee Airmen's Mission to Berlin
- A Fly on the Wall History
- Narrated by: Anonymous
- Series: A Fly on the Wall History
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 04-11-22
- Language: English
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Through clouds and over mountains and farmland... Two flies accompany listeners on an adrenaline-pumping flight over war-torn Europe as the U.S. Army Air Corps' Tuskegee airmen take on a heroic, history-making mission during World War II....
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- By: Sam Kleiner
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma.
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This really happened.
- By Jason on 07-26-20
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific....
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Anthony Fokker
- The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation
- By: Marc Dierikx
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family. Despite not receiving a traditional education, he stumbled his way into aviation as a young stunt pilot in Germany in 1910. He survived a series of spectacular crashes and rose to fame. A combination of industrial espionage, luck, and deception then propelled him to become Germany's leading WWI aircraft manufacturer. When the German Revolution swept the country, Fokker made a spectacular escape to the US.
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Ruler of the skies
- By Paul S. on 05-14-24
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Anthony Fokker
- The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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A comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviator....
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Americans in a World at War
- Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper
- By: Brooke Lindy Blower
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
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On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war.
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Heroes, Villains and A Moment in Time
- By Colin MacKenzie on 03-23-24
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Americans in a World at War
- Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-29-23
- Language: English
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This vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections....
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- By: Thomas Kessner
- Narrated by: Bob McGraw
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.
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Flawed but Worthwhile
- By Ray Daniels on 11-11-22
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- Narrated by: Bob McGraw
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-15-11
- Language: English
- In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight....
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Worth the Fighting For
- The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him
- By: John McCain, Mark Salter
- Narrated by: John McCain
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man. Regaining his health and flight-eligibility status, he resumed his military career, commanding carrier pilots and serving as the navy’s liaison to what is sometimes ironically called the world’s most exclusive club, the United States Senate. Accompanying Senators John Tower and Henry “Scoop” Jackson on international trips, McCain began his political education in the company of two masters, leaders whose standards he would strive to maintain upon his election to the U.S. Congress.
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Worth the Fighting For
- The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him
- Narrated by: John McCain
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-20-16
- Language: English
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After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man....
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Chasing Icarus
- The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
- By: Gavin Mortimer
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles, or balloons would prevail. Within a period of 17 days, this question was on prime display, as the dirigible America tried to cross the Atlantic; huge crowds gathered at horse-racing tracks to watch airplanes race around overhead; and ballooning teams from around the world took off from St. Louis in pursuit of the Bennett International Balloon Cup, given to the balloon that traveled the farthest.
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Not bad but terrible reader
- By Glenn H. Hancock on 11-18-14
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Chasing Icarus
- The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-05-13
- Language: English
- In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles, or balloons would prevail....
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Storming the Heavens
- African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly
- By: Gerald Horne
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the US effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly.
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Edifying
- By Jean on 01-07-19
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Storming the Heavens
- African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-18-18
- Language: English
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The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the US effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account....
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Uniting Against the Reich
- The American Air War in Europe (Aviation & Air Power)
- By: Luke W. Truxal
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Uniting against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe addresses how the United States swiftly reversed its air war against the Axis powers by reevaluating both individual agency and the structural elements that impeded the US from taking the lead in the European Theater. Luke W. Truxal argues that the appointment of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Supreme Allied Commander incorporated various air commands under a single authority, which allowed them to unify their efforts against a specific strategic objective.
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Uniting Against the Reich
- The American Air War in Europe (Aviation & Air Power)
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-27-23
- Language: English
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Uniting against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe addresses how the United States swiftly reversed its air war against the Axis powers by reevaluating both individual agency and the structural elements that impeded the US from taking the lead in the European Theater....
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