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

Ken Alnwick and Thomas Fabyanic

Warfare in Lebanon

Ken Alnwick and Thomas Fabyanic

Dick Anderegg and Todd P. Harmer

The Shootdown of Trigger Four

Dick Anderegg and Todd P. Harmer

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

Dick Anderegg

The Ash Warriors

Dick Anderegg

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

The First Fighter Pilot

Ed Cobleigh

Fly With the Falcon: Love, Loss, Liberty

Ed Cobleigh

The Pilot: Fighter Planes and Paris

Ed Cobleigh

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

Ed Cobleigh

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

Ed Cobleigh

Thomas M. Culbert

Pan Africa Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am

Thomas M. Culbert

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

Dik A. Daso

U.S. Air Force: A Complete History

Dik A. Daso

Americas Hangar - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Dik A. Daso

The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

Dik A. Daso

New World Vistas. Looking toward the Future, Learning from the Past

Dik A. Daso

Origins of Airpower: Hap Arnold’s Early Career in Aviation Technology, 1903-1935

Dik A. Daso

Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

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

Remove Before Flight - Core Readings in Air, Space, and Cyberspace

John T. Farquhar

John T. Farquhar

Kick the Tires and Light the Fires

John T. Farquhar

Combat Codes: a Full Explanation and Listing of British, Commonwealth and Allied Air Force Unit Codes since 1938

Vic Flintham

Truculent Tribes, Turbulent Skies – The RAF In The Near And Middle East 1919-1939

Vic Flintham

Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean Volume II

Vic Flintham

Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean Volume I

Vic Flintham

Thomas E. Griffith Jr.

MacArthur's Airman

Thomas E. Griffith Jr.

The Party Dolls: The True, Tragic Story of Two Americans’ Attempted Escape from a 1969 Hanoi POW Camp

George Hayward

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

Foundations of Professional Airmanship and Flight Discipline

Tony Kern

Richard P. Lawless

Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II

Richard P. Lawless

Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II

Scott McGaugh

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

Phillip S. Meilinger

Speaking of War: Quotations On Conflict

Phillip S. Meilinger

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

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

Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art

John Slemp

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

Steve Snyder

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

Men Will Come: A History of the 314th Troop Carrier Group

Mark C. Vlahos

Leading the Way to Victory

Mark C. Vlahos

Selling Schweinfurt: Targeting, Assessment, and Marketing in the Air Campaign Against German Industry

Brian D. Vlaun

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

Jan Churchill (ATP,CFII, USCGAUX) and Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

Delaware Aviation

Jan Churchill (ATP,CFII, USCGAUX) and Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

Dover Air Force Base

Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

Delaware Air National Guard

Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

Red Markers: The Rest of the Story

Gary N. Willis

Red Markers: Close Air Support for the Vietnamese Airborne, 1962 - 1975

Gary N. Willis

Marshall's Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars

Kathy Wilson