air pilots, military

A biography of Eddie Rickenbacker, a racecar driver, a pilot during World War I, and president of Eastern Airlines.

Biography of flier Hanna Reitsch of Nazi Germany, who managed to break the traditionally defined roles of wife and mother to become a test pilot and military pilot during World War II, earning her an Iron Cross and the friendship of Adolf Hitler.

Discusses the training and work of test pilots by profiling the career of Major Rex Bailey, who tests military airplanes for the United States Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Jenny and her best friend K.C. accompany Jenny's mother, a tanker pilot in the Air Force, to the air base, where they explore her plane, a KC-135, prior to her departure on a training mission to Europe.

The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.

Tells the story of the African-American men and women who served in the training program at the Tuskegee Army Air Field from 1941 to 1946, and includes first-hand accounts from pilots, mechanics, nurses, and others, and a selection of black-and-white photographs.

In January 1945, eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, her lover, and a Jew who escaped a train bound for Auschwitz face the elements and witness the horrors of war as they travel west in hopes of reaching the British and American lines.

An illustrated biography of Maggie Gee, one of only two Chinese American women to serve in the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.

Includes index, brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depicting life as a World War Two pilot.