Aces: True Stories of Victory and Valor in the Skies of World War II

by Bill Yenne

Overview

Aces is an illustrated history of the brave World War II fighter pilots who earned the title of ace, with archival and modern photos of their aircraft.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760368015
Publisher:	Chartwell Books
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books on historical topics. His books on aviation and military history have included Area 51 Black Jets—which T. D. Barmes, formerly with NASA High Range and Area 51 Special Projects, described as “not a book that the reader will lay down and not finish. It holds one’s interest from front to back.” Yenne has also contributed to encyclopedias of World War I and World War II and has been featured in several documentaries that have aired on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and ARD German Television. The Wall Street Journal notes that Yenne writes “with a cinematic vividness.” Yenne has also authored ten novels and has penned several books on beer and brewing history.

Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books on historical topics. His books on aviation and military history have included Area 51 Black Jets—which T. D. Barmes, formerly with NASA High Range and Area 51 Special Projects, described as "not a book that the reader will lay down and not finish. It holds one's interest from front to back." Yenne has also contributed to encyclopedias of World War I and World War II and has been featured in several documentaries that have aired on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and ARD German Television. The Wall Street Journal notes that Yenne writes "with a cinematic vividness." Yenne has also authored ten novels and has penned several books on beer and brewing history.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
 
CHAPTER 01 THE U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES
Baumler and Tinker: The Volunteers
Hill: Flying with the Tigers
Wagner: The USAAF’s First Ace
Bong: America’s Ace of Aces
McGuire: He Died Trying
Kearby: Top Pacific Thunderbolt Ace
Gabreski: The USAAF Top Man in Europe
Johnson: The Country Boy Ace
MacDonald: With Lindbergh in the Pacific
Preddy: The Top Mustang Ace
Meyer: Most Likely to Succeed
Gentile: An American Ace in Two Air Forces
Zemke: From Wolfpack to Stalag
 
CHAPTER 02  THE US NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
McCampbell: The Navy’s Top Ace
O’Hare: The Most Daring Single Action
Harris: Second Place Naval Ace
Valencia: Kamikaze Killer
Foss: A Marine Matches Rickenbacker
Boyington: The Black Sheep
Hanson: Top Corsair Ace
 
CHAPTER 03 GERMANY
Hartmann: There Is Only One Number One
Mölders: First to Top the Red Baron
Galland: The General Was an Ace
Barkhorn: Also Over 300
Rall: Germany’s Number Three Ace
Nowotny: The Austrian Expert
Rudorffer: Thirteen on One Mission
Bär: The Top Me 262 Jet Ace
Steinhoff: The Man Without a Face
Marseille: The Best Fighter Pilot Ever?
 
CHAPTER 04 THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
Deere: A Hero of the Battle of Britain
Pattle: The Top Ace in the Royal Air Force
Johnson: The Top-Scoring Englishman
Malan: The Sailor Was an Airman
Tuck: The Caged Eagle
Bader: The Legless Ace Who Couldn’t Be Caught
Beurling: The Highest-Scoring Canadian Ace
Woodward: Canada’s Number Two Ace
Caldwell: The Top-Scoring Australian Ace
Gray: New Zealand’s Top Ace
Wade: The Yank in the Royal Air Force
 
CHAPTER 05 JAPAN
Anabuki: Top IJAAF Ace
Nishizawa and Iwamoto: The Two at the Top
Sakai: The Man Who Lived to Tell the Tale
 
CHAPTER 06 THE SOVIET UNION
Kozhedub: The Soviet Union’s Ace of Aces
Pokryshkin and Rechkalov: Top Runners-Up
Litvyak and Budanova: Not All the Aces Were Men
 
CHAPTER 07 ITALY
Visconti: Number One
Lucchini: Baracca Della Segunda Guerra Mundial
 
CHAPTER 08 FRANCE
Clostermann: In the Shadow of René Fonck
 
CHAPTER 09 POLAND
Skalski: The First and Finest
Horbaczewski: On Skalski’s Wing
Gladych: Five Air Forces and Three Lives
 
CHAPTER 10 THE OTHER ALLIED AIR FORCES
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
 
CHAPTER 11 THE OTHER AXIS AIR FORCES
Slovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Spain
 
CHAPTER 12 FINLAND
Juutilainen: Finland’ Ace of Aces
Wind: Finland’s Second Highest-Scoring Ace
 
INDEX