William A Hess

January Thaw is a fast-paced romance with intrigue. Its heroine, Allison James, is an independent female cinnamon-colored eyes and tack-hammer verbiage certainly exclude her from the category of doe-eyed ingenue. Dr. Omar Bradley Summit, a reticent but brilliant geologist, is the sensitive, idealist...

American pilots of World War II were required to submit a written report after every single mission detailing what happened in the air that day. This is an assortment of those combat reports from some of the greatest American aces such as: Francis Gabreski, Chuck Yeager, George Preddy, Hubert Zemke,...

All proceeds go to rebuilding Kelly's saloon in geneseo as well as to the students who lost all they owned in the fire. This essay is about controversial topics in education so you can learn something while helping geneseo from going dry. Think of the Tom Collins' that are going un-drunk, people.

Osprey's study of the B-17 Flying Fortress Units of World War II (1939-1945). Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Ita...

The 49th FG was sent to Australia in early 1942 to help stem the tide of Japanese conquest in Java. Too late to save the island, the group went into action in the defence of Darwin, Australia, where the Forty-Niners’ handful of P-40E Warhawks were thrown into combat alongside survivors from the defe...

'Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' - this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book. His official endorsement reveals just how important a document Down to Eart...

This new book is the first detailed history of the famed 91st Bomb Group.

A history of the B-17 bomber, well illustrated with b/w photographs.