"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...

"Events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943. An RAF bomber crew prepares for a bombing raid on Ruhr in western Germany. Masterful, gripping, and widely considered Len Deighton's greatest novel, Bomber is a minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of protagonists on all sides - including the British RAF crew, a Luftwaffe night fighter pilot,...

Provides an overview of the types of planes that were used during the second world war.

"Describes the role pilots played during World War II. Readers' choices reveal various historical details"--Provided by publisher.

1964.The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the U. S. Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division. As the hostilities increase, the warriors and the women who love them are swept into the struggle, their personal and professional lives twisting and intertwining as they race against time

This examination of one of the most important battles of WWII originally aired on the Discovery Channel. Studying the events in the Pacific in June of 1942, this documentary explains how the undermanned U.S. forces were able to eke out a victory over the Japanese Navy. Using interviews and archival footage, the film demonstrates how compiling a few secrets from breaking codes coupled with aggressive attacks based on vague intuition proved to be the...

"Describes several models of military aircraft used in World War I and World War II, including specifications and statistics"--Provided by publisher.

"Drawing on years of research and firsthand interviews with both American and Japanese survivors, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy draws a gripping portrait of men bravely serving their countries in war and the advent of a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombing, that nearly halted the most powerful nation in the world. In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new weapon: kamikazes--the first men to use airplanes as suicide...