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Publications (18)

Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:07

Return To Aviano

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More than 250 Airmen and pilots flying fourteen F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 510th Fighter Squadron returned to Aviano AB, Italy, on 27 March after more than three weeks of training at Zaragoza AB, Spain. The purpose of the training was to build coalition partnerships with North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and accomplish critical flight training. While in Spain, the 510th FS pilots completed air-to-air training mission against Spanish EF-18 Hornets and EF-2000 Eurofighters and performed air-to-ground missions such as basic surface attacks, close air support, and large force employment.

Wednesday, 09 May 2012 17:44

A Stormy Sky Over Normandy: Summer 1944

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Warmly inscribed by the author to the son of one of the subject pilots. Compelling account of the 9th U.S. Air Force over France during World War II. Color and black & white illustrations & photos throughout.

Title:  A Stormy Sky Over Normandy: Summer 1944
Author:  Remy Chuinard
Publisher: By Author
Place: Granville, France
Date: 2000
ISBN: 2951396317
Edition: First U.S. Edition

Wednesday, 09 May 2012 17:43

Thunder Monsters over Europe

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The 405th Fighter group detailed, from its inception to its inactivation as a Dive Bombardment group, tracing its day-to-day activities in the European Theater with the U.S. Ninth Air Force. Pilots' personal accounts of their daily struggle to provide tactical air support to the ground forces. Over 250 photos.

Title: Thunder Monsters over Europe
Author: Reginald G. Nolte
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher:
Sunflower University Press
Date: December 2000
ISBN: 0897450752

On the following pages is a capsule history of the 510th Fighter Squadron, 405th Fighter-Bomber Group, during the crucial period of World War Two (WWII) from the spring of 1943 to the collapse of Hitler's Nazi Germany.  It is a record of the dedication, courage, and sacrifice of those who were the soul, heart and muscle of one of the finest combat units of the European Theatre.

Wednesday, 09 May 2012 17:42

Only Angels Have Wings

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Only Angels Have Wings tells the story of the author growing up during the depression, his burning desire to become a pilot and the realization of that dream when he joins the U.S Army Air Corps. During WWII he was shot down, evaded capture and joined a French Marquis Group. While participating in a raid against Germans he was captured. He later made a daring escape and joined another Marquis Group where he devised a plan to successfully liberate two French Cities. After 50 years he managed to locate and visit members of the French Resistance group he was with.

Title: Only Angels Have Wings
Author:  Arlie J. Blood
Publisher: Arlie J. Blood
Date:  April 12, 1997
ISBN:
0965801608
Hardcover: 234 pages

Wednesday, 09 May 2012 17:41

405th Fighter Group

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Langley Air Force Base - 1954.  This yearbook was loaned to us by Mrs. Jeanette Turner Bean of Arlington VA.  She received the book while stationed at Langley AFB as A2c Turner, WAF.

This book details the daily life of the Air Force Personnel at Langley during the Post WWII era.

Title: 405th Fighter Group
Date:  1954
Hardcover:
Approx. 200 pages

Wednesday, 02 May 2012 18:13

Schlemming with the Fulcrum

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Pilots of the 510th Fighter Squadron and Germany's Jagdgeschwader 73 train as adversaries but relax as friends. This deployment was the first large-scale encounter with the MiG-29 Fulcrum for the US Air Force.

Wednesday, 02 May 2012 18:12

Operation DELIBERATE FORCE

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The 31st Fighter Wing from Aviano Air Base in Italy led the largest air raids in Europe since World War II in the summer of 1995. Aircraft from the wing and from other coalition forces inflicted heavy damage on key Bosnian Serb targets. During Operation Deliberate Force, as the NATO-led bombing offensive of August and September was called, F-16 pilots of the 31st Wing's 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons flew as part of large strike packages with US Navy and Marine Corps pilots as well as with British, French, Dutch, German, Italian, and Turkish aircrews.

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