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The Rescue of Bat 21
By Darrell D. Whitcomb
When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Golden Age Remembered
U.S. Naval Aviation, 1919-1941: An Oral History
Edited by E.T. Wooldridge

Never in the history of aviation was there a more exciting and colorful period of rapid development and public romance with aviators and their magnificent flying machines than the decades between the world wars. It was a time of air shows and races, record flights across the oceans and over the poles, phenomenal technological innovations, and daredevil pilots with whom ...

Available Formats: Hardcover
Naval Law, 3d Edition
Justice and Procedures in the Sea Services
By Brent G. Filbert and Alan G. Kaufman
An introduction to military naval law focusing on the development and history of law for land and sea forces and constitutional, criminal, administrative, and international law. Thirteen chapters discuss topics such as the forums and procedures used to dispose of military offenses such as court-martials and administrative forums; cases that question and apply the basic elements and tenets of what ...
Available Formats: Hardcover