US Military in WW2

US Military in WW2: The Submarines presents three classic first-hand accounts of life aboard a US Navy submarine during World War 2. Rendezvous by Submarine - The Story of Charles Parsons and the Guerrilla-Soldiers in the Philippines by Travis Ingham tells how American-led guerrilla forces in the Philippines paved the way for US forces to re-take the Japanese held islands. U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific by Gerold Frank is the first-hand account of the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Seawolf a.k.a. the Wolf which patrolled the Pacific during World War 2 and had over a dozen confirmed enemy sinkings. Sink 'Em All by Charles A. Lockwood is the absorbing and exhaustive account of every major US submarine's role in the war. *Each work Includes detailed footnotes. *Original photographs from World War 2.

US Military in WW2: Fighter Pilots presents three first-hand accounts of life as a combat pilot during World War 2. Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid by Martin Caidin The blow-by-blow account of the United States Air Force's massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany's industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety-one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses - escorted by squadrons of nimble P-47 Thunderbolts — miraculously fought their way through swarms of enemy aircraft on their way to cripple Nazi Germany's vital ball-bearings plant at Schweinfurt. The Saga of Pappy Gunn by George Churchill Kenney The best-selling biography of legendary World War 2 Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Paul Irving Gunn. Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace by Martin Caidin and Robert S. Johnson Robert S. Johnson was one of America's leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed narrative of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I tally of 26. *Page notes and annotations. *Original hand-picked images from World War 2. *Revised texts with modern American-English spelling and punctuation.