Aviation History Biography

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    • Memoir of a US Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
    • By: James Joyce
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and he went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey “Slicks” and Huey “Gunships”....

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    • A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI
    • By: Arthur Gould Lee
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • This account of the Great War puts you right in the action - from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,965 ratings
    • Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

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    • The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
    • By: Ric Gillespie
    • Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.

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    • The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
    • By: Ed Cobleigh
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the Spring of 1915, a Parisian playboy took to the lethal skies of World War I, becoming the world’s first fighter pilot. Never before had a ...

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • 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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    • Nose-Diving into History
    • By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Series: Epic Fails, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation....

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    • An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
    • By: Adam Makos
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,473 ratings
    • 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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    • By: David Rigby
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told - until now....

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    • The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
    • By: Gerald Astor
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 357 ratings
    • Europe has fallen. Pearl Harbor is in flames. Enter: the Eighth....

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    • How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,310 ratings
    • Fly Girls recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky....

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    • The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
    • By: Truman Smith
    • Narrated by: James Killavey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,105 ratings
    • Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith flew 35 bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only 20 years old....

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    • Under the Radar and on the Black Market with the World's Most Dangerous Smugglers
    • By: Matt Potter
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • This riveting account reveals the secret corners of our supposedly flat world: black markets where governments are never seen but still spend outrageous amounts of money....

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    • How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It
    • By: John Wigger
    • Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • John Wigger explores the wave of hijackings that swept over commercial flights between 1961 and 1972....

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    • True Stories of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II
    • By: Jay A. Stout
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 545 ratings
    • The nearly half-million American air crewmen 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....

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    • The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies
    • By: Michael McCarthy
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • By the author of Ashes Under Water, here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation's most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to light for three generations....

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    • The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII
    • By: Jeff Dacus
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943, when the tide turned against the Japanese....

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    • The Story of Ted Wells
    • By: James Rix
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • This is a true story about a man who was passionate about airplanes—flying them, designing them and building them. His innovative designs and ...

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    • The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
    • By: Geoffrey Bowman
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm....

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