Website of Col. Walter J. Boyne USAF (Ret)
Scholarly, readable and definitive — Author Barrett Tillman has produced a welcome reminder of the efficacy of air power in Whirlwind. The most authentic and interesting presentation yet of the powerful 1945 air campaign in which true air power was realized for the first time, Whirlwind achieves every author's aim by being both scholarly and immensely readable.
→ Leave a commentIn the early 1930s, the name Gee Bee became synonymous with speed as the bullet-shaped racers blazed a winning trail at Cleveland. Yet the beautiful planes, with their gleaming red and white finish, soon acquired the reputation as pilot killers. And so they were — in the 1930s. The Granville Brothers — Zantford, Thomas, Robert, Edward, and Mark — created aircraft that were breathtakingly fast but demanded perfection from their pilots.
→ Leave a commentSHATTERED SWORD, THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully — This incredible book shatters all previous notions on how the Battle of Midway was fought. It also shatters all the standards for military reference works. Shattered Sword will come to be regarded as a benchmark in the analysis of the most decisive naval battle of the Pacific War.
→ 4 CommentsAMERICAN COMBAT PLANES OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Ray Wagner — Jack Bacon & Company, 2004, $65.00. 758 pages, 1,700 photographs. This massive book by one of the most respected aviation historians is an invaluable addition to the library of everyone who loves airplanes.
→ Leave a commentJAGDGESCHWADER 2 "RICHTHOFEN": A Photo Chronicle by Holger Nauroth — Schiffer Publishing Company, $59.95, 2004. A day-by-day account of the Luftwaffe's most storied fighter wing in good times and bad. The photos are remarkable in their extent and quality.
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