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07-13-2018, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by marcal
Moondogs Academy of the Air by Fusco
Realized after a chapter or two that, funny as the stories were, he had zero standards and was willing to do anything to further himself, to the point of the stories becoming so absurd they were funny. Then I checked the list.
07-13-2018, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Beech Dude
Adding these awesome titles to my list. I'll add in for you guys:
"Fly, Fight, Win" Bud Anderson's memoirs, from childhood, early flying, Mustangs in WWII flying Yeager's wing, and through the post war and his test flying. I finished it in 2 days.
"Fly, Fight, Win" Bud Anderson's memoirs, from childhood, early flying, Mustangs in WWII flying Yeager's wing, and through the post war and his test flying. I finished it in 2 days.
“Fly, Fight, Win” is about a B52 pilot in Vietnam. I downloaded them both.
07-14-2018, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by at6d
I love the WWII genre, mostly first-person accounts. These are all good reads.
With The Old Breed
Fighter Pilot
Reach For The Skies
Army at Dawn
Day of Battle
Spitfires and Warm Beer
Stuka Pilot
Panzer Leader
Flyboys
Unbroken
Beyond Band of Brothers
American Sniper
All The Way to Berlin
To Hell and Back
Lone Survivor
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
With The Old Breed
Fighter Pilot
Reach For The Skies
Army at Dawn
Day of Battle
Spitfires and Warm Beer
Stuka Pilot
Panzer Leader
Flyboys
Unbroken
Beyond Band of Brothers
American Sniper
All The Way to Berlin
To Hell and Back
Lone Survivor
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
07-24-2018, 06:23 AM
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Some great suggestions in this thread!
I saw mention of one or two of Rob Serling's titles, but he had a whole slew of them. If I remember correctly, the only major/legacy carrier he missed out on before his passing was Delta. His books are a great mix of corporate history and entertaining stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-J.-Ser...841&sr=1-2-ent
I'd also strongly recommend Richard Bach's "Stranger to the Ground."
Ernest Gann's "Fate is the Hunter" is a great read, but if you can get hold of "A Hostage To Fortune," it's his autobiography that has the actual events he witnessed first and secondhand as they happened, before he added literary license for "Fate."
I saw mention of one or two of Rob Serling's titles, but he had a whole slew of them. If I remember correctly, the only major/legacy carrier he missed out on before his passing was Delta. His books are a great mix of corporate history and entertaining stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-J.-Ser...841&sr=1-2-ent
I'd also strongly recommend Richard Bach's "Stranger to the Ground."
Ernest Gann's "Fate is the Hunter" is a great read, but if you can get hold of "A Hostage To Fortune," it's his autobiography that has the actual events he witnessed first and secondhand as they happened, before he added literary license for "Fate."
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