AFHF Member Authors

AIR and SPACE HISTORY
by AFHF MEMBERS

AFHF members have always been passionate about history. Since the Foundation was created in 1953, members have written on a myriad of subjects—technology, biography, operations, culture, strategy and much, much more. Once you view this list, you will get the idea. Our Foundation membership not only participates in our service history, they document that history in important and lasting ways. ENJOY!

If you are a member and did not submit your published works for inclusion in this list, send book cover image, any links for the book, and your name to xd@afhistory.org, we will work them in during the next revision cycle.

AFHF Member Authors

Dick Anderegg and Todd P. Harmer
The Shootdown of Trigger Four

Dick Anderegg and Todd P. Harmer

Dick Anderegg
Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam

Dick Anderegg

Dick Anderegg
The Ash Warriors

Dick Anderegg

Larry Benson
Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight

Larry Benson

Dr. John McLucas, Larry Benson and Ken Alnwick
Reflections of a Technocrat-Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs During the Cold War

Dr. John McLucas, Larry Benson and Ken Alnwick

Eileen Bjorkman
The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

Eileen Bjorkman

Eileen Bjorkman
Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind

Eileen Bjorkman

Ed Cobleigh
The First Fighter Pilot

Ed Cobleigh

Ed Cobleigh
Fly With the Falcon: Love, Loss, Liberty

Ed Cobleigh

Ed Cobleigh
The Pilot: Fighter Planes and Paris

Ed Cobleigh

Ed Cobleigh
And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot

Ed Cobleigh

Ed Cobleigh
War for the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam

Ed Cobleigh

Dik A. Daso
Architects of American Air Supremacy: General Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore von Kármán

Dik A. Daso

Dik A. Daso
U.S. Air Force: A Complete History

Dik A. Daso

Dik A. Daso
Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

Dik A. Daso

Dik A. Daso
Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary

Dik A. Daso

John L. Deuble, Jr.
An Illustrated History of the 1st Aero Squadron at Camp Furlong: Columbus, New Mexico 1916-1917

John L. Deuble, Jr.

John T. Farquhar
Kick the Tires and Light the Fires

John T. Farquhar

Thomas E. Griffith Jr.
MacArthur's Airman

Thomas E. Griffith Jr.

William P. Head and David R. Mets
Plotting a True Course: Reflections of USAF Strategic Attack Theory and Doctrine the Post World War II Experience

William P. Head and David R. Mets

William P. Head
War From Above the Clouds

William P. Head

William P. Head
Every Inch a Soldier: Augustine Warner Robins and the Building of U.S. Airpower

William P. Head

William P. Head
Night Hunters: The AC-130s and Their Role in U.S. Airpower

William P. Head

William P. Head
Shadow and Stinger: Developing the AC-119G/K Gunships in the Vietnam War

William P. Head

William P. Head
Storms Over the Mekong

William P. Head

Richard P. Lawless
Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II

Richard P. Lawless

Phillip Meilinger
Into The Sun Novels of the United States Air Force

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Thoughts on War

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Significant Milestones in Air Force History

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Limiting Risk in America's Wars: Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm (Transforming War Series)

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Hubert R. Harmon: Airman, Officer, Father of the Air Force Academy

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Airwar: Essays on its Theory and Practice

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Life of a General

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Airpower: Myths and Facts

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
10 Propositions Regarding Air Power

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory

Phillip Meilinger

Phillip Meilinger
Bomber: The Formation and Early Years of Strategic Air Command

Phillip Meilinger

Tyler Morton
From Kites to Cold War: The Evolution of Manned Airborne Reconnaissance

Tyler Morton

Robert G. Novotny
Tarmacs and Trenches: Life and Disappearance of Lt Gen Millard F. Harmon, Jr.

Robert G. Novotny

Ray O'Mara
Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II

Ray O’Mara

W. Howard Plunkett
All F-105 Thunderchief Losses Vol. II: 1967-1981

W. Howard Plunkett

W. Howard Plunkett
All F-105 Thunderchief Losses Vol. I: 1955-1966

W. Howard Plunkett

W. Howard Plunkett
F-105 Thunderchiefs: A 29 Year Illustrated Operational History

W. Howard Plunkett

W. Howard Plunkett and Jeff Kolln
Fighting Cavaliers: The F-105 History of the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron 1963-1967

W. Howard Plunkett and Jeff Kolln

W. Howard Plunkett
Pack Six Blues: The Diary of an F-105 Thunderchief Pilot

W. Howard Plunkett

Wolfgang Samuel
Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
Flights From Fassberg: How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage: The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
In Defense of Freedom: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
Watson's Whizzers: Operation Lusty and the Race for Nazi Aviation Technology

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
Glory Days; The Untold Story of the Men Who Flew the B-66 Destroyer Into the Face of Fear

Wolfgang Samuel

Wolfgang Samuel
I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen

Wolfgang Samuel

Steve Snyder
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

Steve Snyder

Peter A. Swan
Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance, Facts, Recollections and Reflections

Peter A. Swan

L. Parker Temple
Implosion: Lessons From National Security, High Reliabliity Spacecraft, Electronics, and the Forces Which Changed Them

L. Parker Temple

L. Parker Temple
Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evoltion of Space Reconnaissance

L. Parker Temple

David K. Vaughan
Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
Flying for the Air Service: The Hughes Brothers in World War I

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
Letters From a War Bird: The World War I Correspondence of Elliot White Springs

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in America, 1909-1964

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
An American Pilot in the Skies of France: The Diaries and Letters of an American Pilot, 1917-1918

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
Words to Measure a War: Nine American Poets of World War II

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
Solo Stages: A Recollection of Jet Pilot Training in the United States Air Force 1962-1963

David K. Vaughan

David K. Vaughan
Worthy Son: The World War I Letters of Lieutenant Harold E. Loud, Pilot, 88th Aero Squadron, U.S. Air Service

David K. Vaughan

Mark C. Vlahos
Men Will Come: A History of the 314th Troop Carrier Group

Mark C. Vlahos

Mark C. Vlahos
Leading the Way to Victory

Mark C. Vlahos

Michael E. Weaver
The Air War in Vietnam

Michael E. Weaver

Darrel Whitcomb
Combat Search and Rescue in Desert Storm

Darrel Whitcomb

Darrel Whitcomb
Call Sign - Dustoff: A History or US Army Aeromedical Evacuation From Conception to Hurricane Katrina

Darrel Whitcomb

Darrel Whitcomb
On A Steel Horse I Ride: A History of the MH-53 Pave Low Helicopters in War and Peace

Darrel Whitcomb

Darrel Whitcomb
Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America's War in Vietnam

Darrel Whitcomb

Darrel Whitcomb
The Rescue of Bat 21

Darrel Whitcomb

Gary N. Willis
Red Markers: The Rest of the Story

Gary N. Willis

Gary N. Willis
Red Markers: Close Air Support for the Vietnamese Airborne, 1962 - 1975

Gary N. Willis