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She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the US Army.

In 1940, Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. His unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37mm cannons ashore through half a mile of bullet-laced surf. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75mm halftracks. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew on wartime letters, and provided annotations to his narrative to tell his story.

The WWI memoir of Ward Schrantz, a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division. He documents his experiences from training at Camp Doniphan to the voyage across the Atlantic, and his time in the trenches in France's Vosges Mountains and ultimately his return home.

The 15th Air Force generally has been overshadowed by works on the 8th Air Force based in England. Tom Faulkner's memoir helps fill an important void by providing a first-hand account of a pilot and his crew during the waning months of the war, as well as a description of his experiences before his military service.

David R. ""Buff"" Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country. The reader will experience Buff's war from the cockpit of a supersonic F-4D Phantom II.

On a summer's day in Montana, a frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his career. He was a fearless field commander, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. A chance meeting brought Clarke together with artist Frederic Remington, who brought national attention to Clarke.

Tells the story of J.R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a US Navy Seabee officer during World War II. For his memoir he preserved personal papers, letters, photos, and other items, many of which are reproduced in this book.