Air Power History chronicles the great campaigns, the leaders, the successes and the failures of air forces in the past. Eyewitness accounts and historical articles will capture your interest, issue after issue. Regular features will keep you up-to-date on new books, museum exhibits and meetings.
Summer 2021 – Volume 68, No.2
Features
Fly High, Fly Low: SAC Photographic Reconnaissance in Southeast Asia
William Cahill
Gene Deatrick: An Appreciation
Jonna Doolittle Hoppes
The SA-2 and U-2: Secrets Revealed
John A. Schell
Mexicans in World War II: America’s Ally of the Air
Cynthia Buchanan
Reviews
Balloons and Airships: A Tale of Lighter than Air Aviation – By Anthony Burton, Review by Joseph Romito
Beaufighters: Over Sea, Sand and Steaming Jungles – By Jack Colman & Richard Colman, Review by Gary Connor
Showdown in Western Sahara Volume 2: Air Warfare over the Last African Colony, 1975-1991 – By Tom Cooper, Albert Grandolini, & Adrien Fontanellaz, Review by George W. Runkle
Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964-73: Steel Tiger, Barrel Roll, and the Secret Wars in Vietnam and Laos – By Peter E. Davies, Review by Joseph D. Yount
French Bombers of WWII – By José Fernandez and Patrick Laureau, Review by Joseph Romito
Arado Ar 234 Bomber and Reconnaissance Units – By Robert Forsythe and Nick Beale, Review by Gary Connor
Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain – By Chris Goss, Review by Edward M. Young
War in the Far East: Japan Runs Wild 1942-1943 – By Peter Harmsen, Review by Edward M. Young
V2: A Novel of World War II – By Robert Harris, Review by Robert Huddleston
Oswald Boelcke: Germany’s First Fighter Ace and Father of Air Combat – By R. G. Head, Review by Gary Connor
Robert A. Lovett and the Development of American Air Powe – By David M. Jordan, Review by Steven D. Ellis
Through Adversity: Britain and the Commonwealth’s War in the Air 1939-1945: Volume 1 – By Ben Kite, Review by Edward M. Young
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot – By Helmut Mahlke, Review by Joseph Romito
US Air Cavalry Trooper versus North Vietnamese Soldier Vietnam 1965-1968 – By Chris McNab, Review by John Cirafici
Inferno: The True Story of a B–17 Gunner’s Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign – By Joe Pappalardo, Review by Steven Agoratus
Operation Colossus: The First British Airborne Raid of World War II – By Lawrence Patterson, Review by Steven D. Ellis
Airpower Over Gallipoli – By Sterling Michael Pavelec, Review by Jayson A. Altieri
The Battle for Heraklion. Crete 1941: The Battle Revealed Through Allied and Axis Accounts – By Yannis Prekatsounakis, Review by Steven D. Ellis
The Yugoslav Air Force in the Battle for Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991-92, Vol. 1 – By Aleksandar Radi, Review by John Cirafici
Spying from the Sky: At the Controls of U.S. Cold War Aerial Intelligence – By Robert L. Richardson, Review by Joseph Romito
World War II Gunships: YB–40 Flying Fortress and XB–41 Liberator Bomber Escorts – By William Wolf, Review by Scott A. Willey