WWII AVIATION: U.S. UNIT HISTORIES: FIGHTER COMMANDS & GROUPS • AIR COMMANDOS & TRA NSPORT GROUPS • U.S. NAVY 39

Beware the Thunderbolt! The 56th Fighter Yellowjackets! The 361st Fighter Group in The 479th Fighter Group in WWII: in Action Group in WWII David R. McLaren, foreword by WWII - P-51 Mustangs over Germany Paul over Europe with the P-38 and P-51 Terry A. Hub Zemke. The story of the 56th Fighter Group B. Cora. More than a narrow unit history, Yel- Fairfi eld. Based upon a summation of the group’s in a chronological narrative of their combat lowjackets! places the experiences of the Group’s historical records, this book contains personal missions. The “Wolfpack’s" P-47 contrails personnel in perspective with the larger context anecdotes provided by many of the group’s former crossed high in the upper stratosphere as they of the war, and also presents the human side, members as well as over 650 photos. escorted heavy bomber missions, or fell upon the speaking, at times, from the intensely personal Size: 8.5"x11" • 600 color/bw photos • 504pp. enemy on the ground as their pilots destroyed standpoint of the pilots and personnel. ISBN: 0-7643-2056-4 • hard • $69.95 over 1000 Luftwaffe aircraft. Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 color/bw photos • 152pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 250 color/bw photos • 208pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1466-1 • hard • $39.959 ISBN: 0-88740-660-2 • hard • $39.95

The 79th Fighter Group over Tunisia, Sicily, The 363rd Fighter Group in WWII in Action AIR COMMANDOS & TRANSPORT GROUPS and Italy in WWII Don Woerpel. This book over Germany with the P-51 Mustang Kent provides an inside look at battles generally not Miller. This history sheds light on the achievements Any Place, Any Time, Any Where: The 1st well known. The 79th spent much of its tour of the 363rd for the period it fl ew escort and Air Commandos in WWII R.D. van Wagner. with the RAF’s Desert Air Force in Tunisia, Sicily, ground support missions over Europe. The day- Unorthodox and eclectic, the 1st Air Commandos and also took part in the battle for Rome and to-day operations are interspersed with quotes are a model for conventional and special operations the invasion of southern France. from the group and squadron diaries. today, and included an air arsenal which was totally Size: 8.5"x11" • 200 color/bw photos • 264pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 220 color/bw photos • 192pp. unique in its composition and application, combining ISBN: 0-7643-1322-3 • hard • $45.00 ISBN: 0-7643-1629-X • hard • $49.95 the fi repower of P-51As and B-25H bombers with the logistical tentacles of C-47 transports, CG-4A gliders, L-5 and L-1 light planes, and UC-64 bush planes to reach far behind Japanese lines. Size: 8.5"x11" • 200 bw photos • 176pp. Kearby’s Thunderbolts: The 348th Fighter 365th Fighter Squadron in WWII: In Action ISBN: 0-7643-0447-X • hard • $39.95 Group in WWII John C. Stanaway. The 348th over Europe with the P-47 Kent Miller. This Fighter Group was the most successful P-47 book presents the 365th’s day-to-day operations Gooney Birds and Ferry Tales: The 27th Thunderbolt unit in the Pacifi c. Medal of Honor and is interspersed with quotes from the group and Air Transport Group in WWII Jon A. Maguire. recipient Neel Kearby took an aircraft that was squadron records, Missing Aircrew Reports, and The 27th Air Transport Group, part of the 302nd generally despised in the southwest Pacifi c and the men themselves. In addition, an exhaustive Transport Wing, supported the 8th and 9th Air made it into the terror of the skies over such appendix and nearly two hundred photos give Forces in WWII with ferry and transport services. formidable targets as Wewak on New Guinea, readers a look into the combat activities of this Though their role was extremely vital to the success and Cape Gloucester on New Britain. long overlooked Army Air Force unit. of the air and ground wars in Europe, their story Size: 8.5"x11" • 350 color/bw photos • 224pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 190 bw photos • 240pp. has remained largely untold. ISBN: 0-7643-0248-5 • hard • $45.00 ISBN: 0-7643-2427-6 • hard • $59.95 Size: 8.5"x11" • 600 color/bw photos • 352pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0592-1 • hard • $59.95

The 350th Fighter Group in the Mediter- The 370th Fighter Group in WWII: In Action ranean Campaign - 2 November 1942 to over Europe with the P-38 and P-51 Jay 2 May 1945. This facsimile reprint of the actual Jones. The 370th was organized in 1943 to fl y U.S. NAVY 350th Fighter Group war book appears here in the P-47. When the group arrived in England in a new quality edition. The 350th Fighter Group early 1944, they were assigned to the 9th Air Force The Reluctant Raiders: The Story of United States fl ew against the Luftwaffe during the Moroccan, and converted to fl y P-38s. They were involved in Navy Bombing Squadron VB/VPB-109 in WWII Alan Tunisian, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns in P-39s every major Allied offensive from D-Day onward. C. Carey. Detailed book on USN land-based squadron and P-47s. Size: 8.5"x11" • 700 color/bw photos • 448pp. fl ying the PB4Y-1 Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer. Traces Size: 9"x12" • 90 bw photos • 80pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1779-2 • hard • $59.95 the squadron’s history from its commissioning in August ISBN: 0-7643-0220-5 • soft • $19.95 1943, to the fi nal days of WWII. Size: 6"x9" • 90 bw photos • 240pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0757-6 • hard • $29.95

The Pioneer Mustang Group: The 354th The 421st Night Fighter Squadron in WWII Fighter Group in WWII Steve Blake. As the Jeff Kolln. As one of seventeen night fighter We Flew Alone: United States Navy B-24 fi rst unit to fl y the Merlin-engined P-51B in squadrons established during the course of WWII, Squadrons in the Pacifi c - February 1943 combat, the 354th FG adopted the nickname the 421st NFS carried the war into the night skies to September 1944 Alan C. Carey. The fi rst “Pioneer Mustang Group." Until D-Day, it escorted over the battlefi elds of the SW Pacifi c when most comprehensive book on the operations of Navy 8th AF heavy bombers to targets on the European other fi ghter squadrons remained on the ground. B-24 squadrons in the Pacifi c War examines the Continent. The group then moved to France and Size: 8.5"x11" • 370 color/bw photos • 200pp. formation and use of the B-24 by the USN from the supported Patton’s Third Army from Normandy ISBN: 0-7643-1306-1 • hard • $45.00 birth of the fi rst squadron and their deployment to Bavaria, and in the Battle of the Bulge. to Guadalcanal in early 1943 to the squadrons Size: 8.5"x11" • 600 bw photos • 438pp. that participated in the Central Pacifi c campaign ISBN: 978-0-7643-2925-8 • hard • $69.95 Size: 8.5"x11" • 90 color/bw photos • 120pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1170-0 • soft • $19.95

Our Might Always: The 355th Fighter Group The Forgotten Squadron: The 449th Fighter Above an Angry Sea: United States Navy in World War II James William Marshall. A day- Squadron in WWII - Flying P-38s with the B-24 Liberator and PBY-2 Privateer Opera- by-day combat diary with over 800 rare images Flying Tigers, 14th AF Daniel Jackson. The tions in the Pacifi c - October 1944-August of the 355th including fi fty color profi les of P-47s only P-38 fi ghter squadron with the Flying Tigers 1945 Alan C. Carey. Examines in dramatic detail and P-51s. The book is extensively researched in China, the 449th received little press or praise the use of the B-24 and PB4Y-2 during the last with respect to Luftwaffe units engaged, the during or after the war. Having spread its wings eleven months of the war against Japan. data tables are extremely detailed and extensive from Taiwan to the Salween Front, the 449th is Size: 8.5"x11" • 200 color/bw photos • 160pp. for aircraft, pilots, victory credits, pilot rosters, the perfect case study to investigate Chennault’s ISBN: 0-7643-1286-3 • soft • $24.95 losses, aces scores and unit awards. air war over China in WWII. Size: 8.5"x11" • 887 color/bw images • 560pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 220 color/bw photos • 256pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4380-3 • hard • $69.99 ISBN: 978-0-7643-3537-2 • hard • $59.99

The 356th Fighter Group in WWII in Action Possum, Clover & Hades: The 475th Fighter U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squad- over Europe with the P-47 and P-51 Kent Group in WWII John Stanaway. The epic story rons in Great Britain during WWII Alan C. Miller. This 9th Air Force unit spent over two years of one of the highest scoring U.S. Army Air Force Carey. The story of USN FAW-7 and the men in England, occupying the airfi eld at Martlesham fi ghter units in the southwest Pacifi c. Aces included who fl ew the Navy version of the B-24 bomber Heath, Suffolk. Originally fl ying P-47s and later McGuire, Loisel, MacDonald, Roberts and Bong. out of England, during WWII. switching to P-51s, the 356th dispatched its Size: 8.5"x11" • 700 color/bw photos • 336pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 300 color/bw photos • 160pp. aircraft on 407 missions across the Channel. ISBN: 0-88740-518-5 • hard • $45.00 ISBN: 0-7643-1775-X • soft • $29.95 Size: 8.5"x11" • 450 color/bw photos • 336pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1768-7 • hard • $59.95