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Aerial operations

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• Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 -- Aerial operations
• Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Aerial operations
• Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Aerial operations
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Aerial operations

• The Role of Airpower in the Iran-Iraq War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Ronald E. Bergquist (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Airpower: The Decisive Force in Korea (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1957), ed. by James T. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operation Grasshopper: The Story of Army Aviation in Korea, From Aggression to Armistice (Wichita, KS: R. R. Longo Co., 1958), by Dario Politella, contrib. by Mark W. Clark, illust. by Dan V. Cavliere and Robert R. Longo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steadfast and Courageous: FEAF Bomber Command and the Air War in Korea, 1950-1953 (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000), by Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
  • PDF at defense.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Airpower in Three Wars (reprint edition; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by William W. Momyer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1956), by Wayne Thompson and Bernard C. Nalty
  • PDF at defense.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Heart of the Storm: The Genesis of the Air Campaign Against Iraq (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995), by Richard T. Reynolds
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Thunder and Lightning: Desert Storm and the Airpower Debates (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995), by Edward C. Mann (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1992), ed. by Richard H. Shultz and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Airpower in Three Wars (reprint edition; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by William W. Momyer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Air Power and the Ground War in Vietnam: Ideas and Actions (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Donald J. Mrozek
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Air War in Southeast Asia: Case Studies of Selected Campaigns (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1993), by Herman L. Gilster (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• U. S. Halts Bombing of North Viet-Nam (1968), by Lyndon B. Johnson (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)
• Airmobility, 1961-1971 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1999), by John J. Tolson (PDF at US Army CMH)

• A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen (c1987), by Don Brophy and Harold Price, ed. by Brereton Greenhous (PDF in Canada)
• The Aeroplane in the Great War: A Record of Its Achievements (London: Virtue and Co., ca. 1919), by Walter Lewis Wade, illust. by Geoffrey Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fighting the Flying Circus (1919), by Eddie Rickenbacker (illustrated HTML with commentary at richthofen.com)
• Flying and Sport in East Africa (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1920), by Leo Walmsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Development of Military Night Aviation to 1919 (Maxwell AFL, AL: Air University Press, 1998), by William Edward Fischer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Air Service Boys Over the Enemy's Lines: or, The German Spy's Secret (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1919), by Charles Amory Beach, illust. by Robert Gaston Herbert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Air Service Boys Over the Rhine: or, Fighting Above the Clouds (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1919), by Charles Amory Beach, illust. by Robert Gaston Herbert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Air Service Boys Flying for Victory: or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., c1920), by Charles Amory Beach (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Air Service Boys in the Big Battle: or, Silencing the Big Guns, by Charles Amory Beach (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air with Pershing (Chicago : Reilly and Lee Co., c1919), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by Joseph W. Wyckoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Naval Aviation in World War I, by Adrian O. Van Wyen (PDF files at navy.mil)
• Marine Flyer in France: The Diary of Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, November 1917 - January 1918, by Alfred A. Cunningham, ed. by Graham A. Cosmas (illustrated HTML at BYU)

• Eric Fox Pitt Lubbock, Born 16th May 1893, Killed in Aerial Fight Near Ypres, 11th March 1917: A Memoir (London: Printed for private circulation by A. L. Humphreys, 1918), by Alice Avebury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by James Norman Hall
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Red Fighter Pilot (originally published as "The Red Battle Flyer"), by Manfred von Richthofen, trans. by J. Ellis Barker (HTML with commentary at richthofen.com)

• Airpower in Three Wars (reprint edition; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by William W. Momyer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Torpedo 8: The Story of Swede Larsen's Bomber Squadron (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Ira Wolfert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tally-Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire (New York: Macmillan, 1941), by Arthur Gerald Donahue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airborne Operations: A German Appraisal, by United States Army (HTML at US Army CMH)
• Summary Report (European War), by United States Strategic Bombing Survey (HTML at anesi.com)

• Dave Dawson at Casablanca (New York: Crown Publishers, c1944), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson With the Eighth Air Force (New York: Crown Publishers, c1944), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1943), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson With the Flying Tigers (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1943), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson With the Air Corps (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1942), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1941), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson With the R. A. F. (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1941), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson on the Russian Front (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1943), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dawson, Flight Lieutenant (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1941), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Charles Griffith (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Summary Report (Pacific War) (Washington: GPO, 1946), by United States Strategic Bombing Survey
  • HTML with commentary at anesi.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• U. S. Naval Aviation in the Pacific (1947), by United States Navy
  • PDF at navy.mil
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A War of Their Own: Bombers Over the Southwest Pacific (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2005), by Matthew K. Rodman (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• One Damned Island After Another (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1946), by Clive Howard and Joe Whitley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serenade to the Big Bird (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1952), by Bert Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Air-to-Ground Battle for Italy (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by Michael C. McCarthy
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• RAF Wings Over Florida: Memories of World War II British Air Cadets (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2000), by Willard Largent, ed. by Tod Roberts (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Psychiatric Experiences of the Eighth Air Force: First Year of Combat (July 4, 1942-July 4, 1943) (New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1944), by Donald W. Hastings, David G. Wright, and Bernard C. Glueck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Army Air Forces in World War II: Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, ed. by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate (illustrated HTML at Ibiblio)
• Pacific Counterblow: The 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron in the Battle for Guadalcanal, by United States Army (HTML at Ibiblio)
• American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2002), by Henry Harley Arnold, ed. by John W. Huston
  • Volume 1: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume 2: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
• Airpower and Ground Armies: Essays on the Evolution of Anglo-American Air Doctrine, 1940-1943 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998), ed. by Daniel R. Mortensen (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• History of the 9th Bombardment Group (VH) (1995), ed. by Lawrence S. Smith (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944, by Peter B. Mersky (illustrated HTML at Ibiblio)

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