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Volume II has been already been written and all photos selected and laid out. It will cover combat operations for 1943 and describe the origins of the B-25 strafer project in great detail. All of the key campaigns will be covered: Battle of the Bismarck Sea (2-4 March 1943), surprise low level...

Less than a week to go before the delivery of Harvest of the Grim Reapers Vol. I from the printer in Dallas, Texas to our HQ in Boulder, Colorado. Once they arrive all pre-orders will then be shipped. Wherever possible we utilized personal accounts by the pilots, crew chiefs, commanders...

The Book Depository sells vol. I for £65.30 with free shipping. https://www.bookdepository.com/Black-Cross-Red-Star-Air-War-Over-Eastern-Front-1-Barbarossa-Christer-Bergstrom/9789188441683?ref=grid-view&qid=1640152462816&sr=1-1

After many years of interviews, visits to archives, research & writing volume I of the history of the 3rd BG & 27th BG is at the printer and should be ready for shipping on 10 January 2022. We are now able to take pre-orders. You can preview the book at the link below to see the cover art...

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buffnut453 wrote: I think the others are pretty self-explanatory. The "Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer" is a personal account by a Blenheim pilot in the Battle of France. His Granddaughter helped finish the book. I hadn't seen it before until a spied a copy on a friend's bookshelf. Since I'm mostly...

What did the personnel of the Soviet Air Forces (VVS) experience during Operation Barbarossa? This book tells you and provides the German perspective as well. The revised & expanded edition of volume I of Christer Bergström's Black Cross Red Star series is probably the most important aviation...

One of the best references on the Battle of the Coral Sea is John Lundstrom's The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Naval Institute Press 1984). Available in hardback and paperback.

Dan Ford's history of the AVG is far & away the best. Nothing else compares. Ford researched every source and covers the Japanese side. Almost all claims vs. losses are reconciled. Two memoirs by AVG pilots, Charlie Bond's A Flying Tiger's Diary and R.T. Smith's Tale of a Tiger, are both...

The long-awaited history of the 22nd Bombardment Group in WWII, Revenge of the Red Raiders, has been published and is now available from International Research and Publishing. It is the second volume in the series "Eagles Over the Pacific" and follows the acclaimed history of the 345th BG -...