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Rolling Thunder    by Mark Berent
Price: Free! 150160 words. Published on November 25, 2009. .

USAF Capt. Court Bannister, overshadowed by a famous father, driven to confront missiles, MiGs, and nerve-grinding bombing raids in order to prove his worth to his comrades...and to himself. Air Force Lt Toby Parker, fresh from the States, finds his innocence burned away by the war. Special Forces Major Wolf Lochert plunges into the jungle to rescue a downed pilot.While in DC McNamara fumes.
Douglas A-26 Invader at War    by peter dancey
Price: $1.99 USD. 1960 words. Published on October 5, 2010. .

A late WW II USAAF light-bomber development not having made its combat debut until the Spring of 1944 the A-26 (later B-26) Invader having commenced combat 'ops' in Europe finished WW II in the Pacific theatre retiring to Florida to then give sturdy service in Korea. But this was not he end for the Invader as following operations with the USAF in THailand it did not finally retire until 1969...
21st Century U.S. Military Air Force Thunderbird Support Manual – Air Demonstration Squadron, F-16 Formation Flying    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 24420 words. Published on January 6, 2011. .

U.S. Air Force Thunderbird Support Manual is used by the famed USAF air demonstration squadron in planning airshow appearances. The Thunderbirds, perform precision aerial maneuvers demonstrating the capabilities of high performance aircraft. The squadron exhibits the professional qualities the Air Force develops in the people who fly, maintain and support these aircraft.
So Brave...So Quiet...So Long!    by Larry T. Bailey
Price: $9.95 USD. 88210 words. Published by Pine Tree Arts / Pine Tree Press  on July 21, 2011. .

Uplifting in-depth interviews with 34 unforgettable men and women, from one small community in Northern California, who helped save our nation from WWII to the Cold War — and then went home. First published as a 5-year series in The Wildwood Independent, the stories became "the most talked-about, most popular series in the paper's 30-year history," says TWI publisher Mike Dobbins.
American Smile    by Cody Young
Price: $2.99 USD. 62320 words. Published on July 21, 2011. .

American Smile is the story of Emma Rowland, a young woman searching for the truth about her ancestry with Tyler Robinson, a handsome young aircraft mechanic who knows a lot more about planes than he does about women. It soon becomes clear that he knows more about the mystery than he is willing to say and together they uncover a secret hidden since the boys left for the beaches of Normandy in 1944
Air Force One: The Final Mission    by Joel Cohen
Price: $9.99 USD. 23080 words. Published by DonnaInk Publications  on October 2, 2011. .

On September 8, 2001, the Air Force decommissioned SAM 27000 and gave it on permanent loan to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. Documentary filmmakers Joel Haskell Cohen and Michael Cohen have chronicled the historic final days of the most famous aircraft in the world.
Conspiracy to Rape America    by Ben Games
Price: $5.99 USD. 49780 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on October 5, 2011. .

This story is a semi-biographical tale taken from the journals of 1st Lieutenant Ben R. Games, 4th Fighter Squadron, USAF, written from 1948–50 during the start of the Korean War. This war or "Police Action" was fought with the United Nations establishing the rules of engagement. These rules were designed to give advantage to the Communist Chinese soldiers who out-numbered the Americans 5-1.
Goodbye Beautiful Wing    by Terrence O'Neill
Price: $4.99 USD. 382340 words. Published on November 30, 2011. .

Goodbye Beautiful Wing is 95 percent incredible fact, a nine year story needing five percent fiction subbing for hidden 60-year-old 'secret reports', such as Charles Lindbergh's frank evaluation of SAC aircraft, the FBI investigation of the sabotaged Northrop Wing, the Army Air Force purchase of untested engines, Air-Force-trashing our Stealty-in-1948 bombers, invisible traitors at the top.
True Life - The Soldier who Served Under Three Flags    by Brian Comerford
Price: $0.99 USD. 1230 words. Published on December 3, 2011. .

Clem Ryan, from Ireland, served in the Armed Forces of Ireland, Britain and the United States.He visited Hiroshima six months after the Atom Bomb. He provides a chilling first person account of that visit. He volunteered for service in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service. This is his story.
The Cold War and Beyond: Chronology of the United States Air Force, 1947-1997 - Aviation and Space Milestones of the First Fifty Years of the USAF    by Progressive Management
Price: $6.99 USD. 41850 words. Published on December 14, 2011. .

This chronology commemorates the golden anniversary of the establishment of the United States Air Force (USAF) as an independent service. Dedicated to the men and women of the USAF past, present, and future, it records significant events and achievements from 18 September 1947 through 9 April 1997.