<b><i>US Military in WW2: Fighter Pilots&nbsp;</i></b>presents three first-hand accounts of life as a combat pilot during World War 2.<br /><br /><i>Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid&nbsp;</i>by Martin Caidin<br /><br />The blow-by-blow account of the United States Air Force&#39;s massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany&#39;s industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety-one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses - escorted by squadrons of nimble P-47 Thunderbolts &ndash; miraculously fought their way through swarms of enemy aircraft on their way to cripple Nazi Germany&#39;s vital ball-bearings plant at Schweinfurt.<br /><br /><i>The Saga of Pappy Gunn</i>&nbsp;by George Churchill Kenney<br /><br />The best-selling biography of legendary World War 2 Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Paul Irving Gunn.<br /><br /><i>Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace</i>&nbsp;by Martin Caidin and Robert S. Johnson<br /><br />Robert S. Johnson was one of America&#39;s leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed narrative of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker&#39;s World War I tally of 26.<br /><br />*Page notes and annotations.<br />*Original hand-picked images from World War 2.<br />*Revised texts with modern American-English spelling and punctuation.