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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
Work on this project began as early as 24 October 2018, when a [https://web.archive.org/web/20181024025820/http://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1TA5Q2GCCSVS3 list of the same name] was created on Amazon. This page is based in large part on the aerospace section of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autobiographies list of autobiographies Wikipedia page]. Said section was entirely self-created, so its inclusion on this website is appropriate.
Work on this project began as early as 24 October 2018, when a [https://web.archive.org/web/20181024025820/http://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1TA5Q2GCCSVS3 list of the same name] was created on Amazon. This page is based in large part on the aerospace section of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autobiographies list of autobiographies Wikipedia page]. Said section was entirely self-created, so its inclusion on this website is appropriate. A large number of the bush flying entries were taken from a [http://www.backcountrypilot.org/forum/a-few-good-books-913 thread] on the Backcountry Pilot forum.


However, the content of this page may differ from the aforementioned article, as inclusion criteria (i.e. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability notability] requirements) are not in place here. Furthermore, the decision was made to focus solely on individuals involved in atmospheric flight, and not spaceflight.
However, the content of this page may differ from the aforementioned article, as inclusion criteria (i.e. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability notability] requirements) are not in place here. Furthermore, the decision was made to focus solely on individuals involved in atmospheric flight, and not spaceflight.


Only a single book is listed for each individual. The years listed are the date of publication of the first edition, as further revisions ''without additional input from the author'' are more likely to introduce errors or factual inaccuracies. However, if a work with significantly different content is published later it will be included instead, as it is expected that it will be more comprehensive due to covering a large span of the author's life. The chief method of distinguishing between a new work and a revision, new edition, or translation of an earlier copy is that a significantly different title is used. If the work was originally published in a non-English language, the English language title is listed first, followed by the foreign language title in parentheses.
Only a single book is listed for each individual. The years listed are the date of publication of the first edition, as further revisions ''without additional input from the author'' are more likely to introduce errors or factual inaccuracies. However, if a work with significantly different content is published later it will be included instead, as it is expected that it will be more comprehensive due to covering a large span of the author's life. The chief method of distinguishing between a new work and a revision, new edition, or translation of an earlier copy is that a significantly different title is used. If the work was originally published in a non-English language, the English language title is listed first, followed by the foreign language title in parentheses.
No distinction is made between autobiographies and memoirs.


Confirmation of publication dates is mainly performed through searches of the [http://www.worldcat.org WorldCat database]. However, in a few cases confirmation was made by consulting images of pages on sales listings on online auctions or book selling websites.
Confirmation of publication dates is mainly performed through searches of the [http://www.worldcat.org WorldCat database]. However, in a few cases confirmation was made by consulting images of pages on sales listings on online auctions or book selling websites.


In the event a book was written with a coauthor or published posthumously, it is noted in a footnote.
In the event a book was written with a coauthor or published posthumously, it is noted in a footnote as these factors can affect the directness and therefore the authenticity of the account. In addition, if a book is based on either letters or a diary, this is also noted as these characteristics often place the work in a certain subcategory autobiography written by the children of the subject.


== Autobiographies ==
== Autobiographies ==
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|Alberto Santos-Dumont||''My Airships: The Story of My Life''||1904
|Alberto Santos-Dumont||''My Airships: The Story of My Life''||1904
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|James R. McConnell||''[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440327 Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun]''||1917
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|Manfred von Richthofen||''The Red Fighter Pilot''||1917
|Manfred von Richthofen||''The Red Fighter Pilot''||1917
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|Frank Hawks||''Speed''||1931
|Frank Hawks||''Speed''||1931
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|Willy Coppens||''Days Gone: Memories (Jours Envolés: Mémoires)''{{efn|1=Published in English as ''Days on the Wing'' in 1934 and ''Flying In Flanders'' in 1971.}}||1932
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|Amelia Earhart||''The Fun of It''||1933
|Amelia Earhart||''The Fun of It''||1933
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|Ted W. Lawson||''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo''||1943
|Ted W. Lawson||''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo''||1943
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|Don S. Gentile||''One Man Air Force''{{efn|1=Coauthored.}}||1944
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|Guy Gibson||''Enemy Coast Ahead''||1946
|Guy Gibson||''Enemy Coast Ahead''||1946
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|Arthur Harris||''Bomber Offensive''||1947
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|Bert Stiles||''Serenade to the Big Bird''{{efn|1=Published posthumously.}}||1947
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|Henry H. Arnold||''Global Mission''||1949
|Henry H. Arnold||''Global Mission''||1949
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|John Slessor||''The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections''||1956
|John Slessor||''The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections''||1956
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|Basil Embry||''Mission Completed''{{efn|1=A previous book, ''Wingless Victory'' (alternately known as ''Alone He Went''), was published in 1950. However, it was it was "written by an R.A.F. colleague of Embry's, and thus [does not have] the personal touch of autobiography" according to a review.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=27 August 1951 |title=Books: Flyer's Flight |url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,815296,00.html |magazine=Time  |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>}}||1957
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|Saburō Sakai||''Samurai!''{{efn|Coauthored. There are [http://www.warbirdforum.com/wingsams.htm significant questions] regarding the authenticity of the book due to changes by the coauthor.}}||1957
|Saburō Sakai||''Samurai!''{{efn|Coauthored. There are [http://www.warbirdforum.com/wingsams.htm significant questions] regarding the authenticity of the book due to changes by the coauthor.}}||1957
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|Nancy Bird||''Born to Fly''||1961
|Nancy Bird||''Born to Fly''||1961
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|John M. Foster||''Hell in the Heavens''||1961
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|Bud Mahurin||''Honest John''||1962
|Bud Mahurin||''Honest John''||1962
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|Arch Whitehouse||''The Fledgling: An Autobiography''||1964
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|Curtis LeMay||''Mission with LeMay: My Story''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1965
|Curtis LeMay||''Mission with LeMay: My Story''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1965
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|Eddie Rickenbacker||''Rickenbacker: An Autobiography''||1967
|Eddie Rickenbacker||''Rickenbacker: An Autobiography''||1967
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|Benjamin Foulois||''From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois''||1968
|Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev||''The Purpose of Life (Цель жизни)''{{efn|The author wrote three books during his lifetime: ''The Designer's Tales'' in 1950, a second book in 1964, and ''The Purpose of Life'' in 1967. The books vary in content, most distinctly being rewritten in regards to the changing political situation in the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mamyachenkov |first1=Vladimir Nikolajevich |title=Designer A. S. Yakovlev’s Books as Source on the Soviet History |journal=Manuscript |date=2021 |volume=14 |issue=8 |pages=1564–1565 |url=http://www.gramota.net/eng/materials/9/2021/8/8.html |access-date=16 January 2023 |language=Russian}}</ref> The first English language book, ''Notes of an Aircraft Designer'' was published in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=Notes of an Aircraft Designer |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/2222818 |website=WorldCat |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref> A second English language book, corresponding with the third Russian language book and titled ''The Aim of a Lifetime'', was published in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/521377 |website=WorldCat |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>}}||1967
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|Benjamin Foulois||''From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||1968
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|George William Goddard||''Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography''||1969
|George William Goddard||''Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography''||1969
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|Francis Gary Powers||''Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1970
|Francis Gary Powers||''Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1970
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|Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev||''The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane''{{efn|A book titled ''Notes of an Aircraft Designer'' by Yakovlev was first published in English in 1960 and later republished the same year as ''The Aim of a Lifetime''. This may be same book with a different name, possibly due to mistranslation or a confusion of the title and subtitle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Цель жизни. (Записки авиаконструктора) / T︠S︡elʹ zhizni. (Zapiski aviakonstruktora) |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/15641343 |website=WorldCat |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>}}||1972
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|Raymond Collishaw||''Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story''||1973
|Raymond Collishaw||''Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story''||1973
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|Donald Wilson (general)|Donald Wilson||''Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years''||1973
|Donald Wilson||''Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years''||1973
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|Jan Zumbach||''Mister Brown''{{efn|Published in English as ''On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer''.}}||1973
|Jan Zumbach||''Mister Brown''{{efn|Published in English as ''On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer'' in 1975.}}||1973
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|Arthur Lee (RAF officer)|Arthur Lee||''No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I''||1974
|Arthur Lee (RAF officer)|Arthur Lee||''No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I''||1974
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|Igor Kaberov||''Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика)''||1975
|Igor Kaberov||''Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика)''||1975
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|Alexander Lippisch||''A Triangle Flies: The Development of Delta Aircraft Until 1945 (Ein Dreieck Fliegt: Die Entwicklung der Delta-Flugzeuge bis 1945)''{{efn|1=Published in English as ''The Delta Wing: History and Development'' in 1981.}}||1976
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|Charles Lamb (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Lamb||''War in a Stringbag''||1977
|Charles Lamb (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Lamb||''War in a Stringbag''||1977
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|Alan Cobham||''A Time to Fly''||1978
|Alan Cobham||''A Time to Fly''||1978
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|Richard S. Drury||''My Secret War''||1979
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|Norman Hanson||''Carrier Pilot''||1979
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|Alex Henshaw||''Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire''{{efn|The author published two additional books: ''The Flight of the Mew Gull'' in 1980 and ''Wings Across the Great Divide: Postwar Flying in Africa in the 1940s'' in 2004. They cover his prewar and postwar life, respectively.}}||1979
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|Murray Peden||''A Thousand Shall Fall''||1979
|Murray Peden||''A Thousand Shall Fall''||1979
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|Jean Batten||''Alone in the Sky''||1979
|Jean Batten||''Alone in the Sky''||1979
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|George H. Gay Jr.|George Gay||''Sole Survivor''||1980
|George Gay||''Sole Survivor''||1980
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|Carl H. Moore||''Flying the B-26 Marauder Over Europe''||1980
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|Wladek Gnyś||''First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography''||1981
|Wladek Gnyś||''First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography''||1981
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|Jack Jefford||''Winging It!''||1981
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|William R. Dunn (aviator)|William R. Dunn||''Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II''||1982
|William R. Dunn (aviator)|William R. Dunn||''Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II''||1982
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|Robert Mason||''Chickenhawk''{{efn|The author published an additional book: ''Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam'' in 1993.}}||1983
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|Charles R. Bond Jr.||''A Flying Tiger's Diary''{{efn|Coauthored, based on diary entries.}}||1984
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|Duke Cunningham||''Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1984
|Duke Cunningham||''Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1984
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|Gerhard Neumann||''Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant''||1984
|Gerhard Neumann||''Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant''||1984
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|Robert M. Smith||''With Chennault in China: A Flying Tiger's Story''{{efn|Based on diary entries.}}||1984
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|Peter Corley-Smith||''10,000 Hours: A Helicopter Pilot in the North''||1985
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|Stanley Hooker||''Not Much of an Engineer''||1985
|Stanley Hooker||''Not Much of an Engineer''||1985
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|Alberto Briganti||''Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura)''||1988
|Alberto Briganti||''Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura)''||1988
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|Samuel Hynes||''Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator''||1988
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|Robert Lee Scott Jr.||''The Day I Owned the Sky''{{efn|An earlier memoir was published as ''God is My Co-Pilot''.}}||1988
|Robert Lee Scott Jr.||''The Day I Owned the Sky''{{efn|An earlier memoir was published as ''God is My Co-Pilot''.}}||1988
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|Fred Weick||''From the Ground Up''||1988
|Fred Weick||''From the Ground Up''||1988
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|John Thomas Blackburn||''The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17''||1989
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|Takeo Doi||''Fifty Years Recollections on Aircraft Design (航空機設計50年の回想)''||1989
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|Hugh Dundas||''Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years''||1989
|Hugh Dundas||''Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years''||1989
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|Marshall Harrison||''A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam''||1989
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|Herman Lerdahl||''Skystruck: True Tales of an Alaska Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1989
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|Kelly Johnson (engineer)|Kelly Johnson||''Kelly: More Than My Share of It All''||1989
|Kelly Johnson (engineer)|Kelly Johnson||''Kelly: More Than My Share of It All''||1989
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|Hajo Herrmann||''Eagle's Wings''||1991
|Hajo Herrmann||''Eagle's Wings''||1991
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|Brian Shul||''Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet''||1991
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|Rudy Billberg||''In the Shadow of Eagles: From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1992
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|Joe Foss||''A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1992
|Joe Foss||''A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1992
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|Tex Johnson||''Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1992
|Tex Johnson||''Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1992
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|Harry H. Crosby||''A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II''||1993
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|Lawrence A. Hyland||''Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft''||1993
|Lawrence A. Hyland||''Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft''||1993
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|Ben Rich||''Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1994
|Ben Rich||''Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1994
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|Otha C. Spencer||''Flying the Hump: Memories of an Air War''||1994
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|Melvin N. Westwood||''Contract Military Air Transport From the Ground Up''||1995
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|Bob Hoover||''Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets''||1996
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|No Kum-Sok||'' A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1996
|No Kum-Sok||'' A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1996
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|Tom Smith||''Easy Target: The Long, Strange Trip of a Scout Pilot in Vietnam''||1996
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|Charles W. Dryden||''A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman''||1997
|Charles W. Dryden||''A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman''||1997
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|Boris Sergievsky||''Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer''||1998
|Boris Sergievsky||''Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer''||1998
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|Fred J. Olivi||''Decision at Nagasaki: The Mission That Almost Failed''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1998
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|Frank E. Petersen||''Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1998
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|Paul Tibbets||''Return of The Enola Gay''||1998
|Paul Tibbets||''Return of The Enola Gay''||1998
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|Jeffrey Quill||''Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story''||1998
|Jeffrey Quill||''Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story''||1998
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|David Kirk Vaughan||''Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968''||1998
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|Max Karant||''Max Karant: My Flights and Fights''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||1999
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|Richard C. Kirkland||''Tales of a War Pilot''{{efn|1=The author published at least two additional nonfiction books: ''MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War''  and ''Tales of a Helicopter Pilot''. A third, ''War Pilot: True Tales of Combat and Adventure'', may be a republication of ''Tales of a War Pilot''.}}||1999
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|Michael J. Novosel||''Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator''||1999
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|James Anderson||''Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2000
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|Ann B. Carl||''A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II''||2000{{efn|1=It is not clear when this book was first published. An edition was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Wasp Among Eagles: A Wasp Among Eagles [''sic''] |url=http://search.worldcat.org/title/833293641 |website=WorldCat |access-date=29 January 2024}}</ref> However, her 2008 obituary mentions the work by name.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Calos |first1=Katherine |title=Ann G.B. Carl, First U.S. Woman to Fly Jet, Dies |url=http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/ann-g-b-carl-first-u-s-woman-to-fly-jet-dies/article_aba11996-46dd-5010-94c2-e672b3f6a4e3.html |access-date=29 January 2024 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=22 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319134535/http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/ann-g-b-carl-first-u-s-woman-to-fly-jet-dies/article_aba11996-46dd-5010-94c2-e672b3f6a4e3.html |archive-date=19 March 2021}}</ref> A WorldCat entry with limited details mentions an edition published in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II |url=http://search.worldcat.org/title/539565861 |website=WorldCat |access-date=29 January 2024}}</ref> This date has been used for the entry.}}
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|Frederick Libby||''Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I''||2000
|Frederick Libby||''Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I''||2000
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|Denny McCartney||''Picking Up the Pieces''||2000
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|Lee Wulff||''Bush Pilot Angler''{{efn|Published posthumously.}}||2000
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|Roland Beamont||''The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation''||2001
|Roland Beamont||''The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation''||2001
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|John A. Clark||''An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary: Combat Missions Flown with the 100th Bomb Group, England 1944-1945''||2001
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|Don Fairbanks||''Once Around the Patch (Of Life): The Autobiography of Don Fairbanks''||2001{{efn|1=The date of publication is not listed in the book and could not be determined from online sources. However, an article published by AOPA in 2001 mentions it and this date has been used for the entry.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pilot Briefing |url=https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2001/july/pilot/pilot-briefing-(7) |website=AOPA |access-date=29 January 2024 |date=5 July 2001}}</ref>}}
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|Robert K. Morgan||''The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2001
|Robert K. Morgan||''The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2001
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|Louis Zamperini||''Devil at My Heels''{{efn|Coauthored.}}{{efn|A previous book of the same name was written with a different co-author and first published in 1956.}}||2001
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|John L. Lenburg||''Kriegsgefangenen #6410: Prisoner of War''{{efn|Republished in 2015 as ''Walk to Freedom''.}}||2002
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|Peter Masefield||''Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2002
|Peter Masefield||''Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2002
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|Geoffrey Wellum||''First Light: The True Story of a Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies above Britain''||2002
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|James Joyce||''Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2003
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|Donald L. Mallick||''[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88797main_kerosene.pdf Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey]''||2003
|Donald L. Mallick||''[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88797main_kerosene.pdf Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey]''||2003
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|Joseph W. Rutter||''Wreaking Havoc: A Year in an A-20''||2003
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|Rex Terpening||''Bent Props & Blow Pots''||2003
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|Randy Zahn||''Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam''{{efn|Based on audiotapes.}}||2003
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|Bernard F. Fisher||''Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero''||2004
|Bernard F. Fisher||''Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero''||2004
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|Chuck Gross||''Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot’s War Story''||2004
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|Julian Williams Cummings||''Grasshopper Pilot: A Memoir''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2005
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|Colin Downes||''By the Skin of my Teeth: The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea''||2005
|Colin Downes||''By the Skin of my Teeth: The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea''||2005
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|Edward Huntley||''Land Here? You Bet!: The True Adventures of a Fledgling Bush Pilot in Alaska and British Columbia in the Early 1950s''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2005
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|Corky Meyer||''Corky Meyer's Flight Journal: A Test Pilot's Tales of Dodging Disasters Just in Time''{{efn|This may be a compilation of various articles published in the magazine ''Flight Journal''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reinhold |first1=Herman |title=[Book Review] |journal=Air & Space Power Journal |date=Winter 2008 |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=123–124 |url=http://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Volume-22_Issue-1-4/2008_Vol22_No4.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Some Days You Should Stay in Bed |url=http://www.flightjournal.com/some-days-you-should-stay-in-bed |website=Flight Journal |access-date=16 January 2023 |date=18 July 2011}}</ref>}}||2005
|Corky Meyer||''Corky Meyer's Flight Journal: A Test Pilot's Tales of Dodging Disasters Just in Time''{{efn|This may be a compilation of various articles published in the magazine ''Flight Journal''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reinhold |first1=Herman |title=[Book Review] |journal=Air & Space Power Journal |date=Winter 2008 |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=123–124 |url=http://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Volume-22_Issue-1-4/2008_Vol22_No4.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Some Days You Should Stay in Bed |url=http://www.flightjournal.com/some-days-you-should-stay-in-bed |website=Flight Journal |access-date=16 January 2023 |date=18 July 2011}}</ref>}}||2005
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|James M. Davis||''In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II''||2006
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|Roy Franklin||''Island Bush Pilot: Founder of San Juan Airlines''||2006
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|Clayton Kelly Gross||''Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace''||2006
|Clayton Kelly Gross||''Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace''||2006
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|Günther Rall||''My Logbook: Reminiscences, 1938-2006''||2006
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|Joe Sutter||''747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006
|Joe Sutter||''747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006
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|Captain Nicholas Gravino, Jr.||''A Pilot's Memoirs: From the Ground Up''||2007
|Sam O. White||''Sam O. White, Alaskan: Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006
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|Jack Broughton||''Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs''{{efn|1=The author wrote two previous books: ''Thud Ridge'' in 1968 and ''Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington'' in 1988.}}||2007
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|Kenny Wayne Fields||''The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos''||2007
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|Nicholas Gravino, Jr.||''A Pilot's Memoirs: From the Ground Up''||2007
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|Holger Jorgensen||''Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Airline Captain Holger "Jorgy" Jorgensen''||2007
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|Ed Rasimus||''Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War''{{efn|1=The author published a previous book, a prequel: ''When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam'' in 2003.}}||2007
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|Richard Hutchings||''Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falklands War''||2008
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|Leland Snow||''Putting Dreams to Flight''||2008
|Leland Snow||''Putting Dreams to Flight''||2008
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|Harlan R. Hill||''I Wanted Wings: A Tail Gunner's Story''{{efn|Coauthored, based on letters.}}||2009
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|Anna Yegorova||''Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front''||2009
|Anna Yegorova||''Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front''||2009
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|John Freeborn||''Tiger Cub: A 74 Squadron Fighter Pilot in World War II''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2009
|John Freeborn||''Tiger Cub: A 74 Squadron Fighter Pilot in World War II''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2009
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|Robert Brouk||''To Soar with the Tigers: The Life and Diary of Flying Tiger, Robert Brouk''{{efn|Published posthumously, coauthored, based on diary entries.}}||2010
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|Bernard Fipp||''Triple Sticks: Tales of a Few Young Men in the 1960s''||2010
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|Mitsuo Fuchida||''For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor''{{efn|Published posthumously.}}||2011
|Mitsuo Fuchida||''For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor''{{efn|Published posthumously.}}||2011
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|Wayne A. Warner||''One Trip Too Many: A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam''||2011
|Wayne A. Warner||''One Trip Too Many: A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam''||2011
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|Bob Adkins||''Panhandle Pilot: Twenty Years of Flying in Southeast Alaska''||2012
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|Don Volz||''A Pilot's Story: An Autobiography of a Pilot''||2012
|Don Volz||''A Pilot's Story: An Autobiography of a Pilot''||2012
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|Albert J. DeGroote||''A Flight Through Life: An Aviator's Memoir''||2013
|Albert J. DeGroote||''A Flight Through Life: An Aviator's Memoir''||2013
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|Geoffrey Leeming||''From Borneo to Lockerbie: Memoirs of a RAF Helicopter Pilot''||2013
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|David E. Tavel||''Hell in the Heavens: The Saga of a WWII Bomber Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored, based on diary entries.}}||2013
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|Bill Collier||''The Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot: Flying the H-34 helicopter in Vietnam for the United States Marine Corps''||2014
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|Robert F. Curtis||''Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond''||2014
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|Kimber C. Turner||''Freight Dog: The Dark Side of Aviation''||2014
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|Mark Garrison||''Guts 'N Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam''||2015
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|Ed Denny||''Hornet 33: Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2016
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|Z. W. Kowalewski||''A Sailor's Life in World War II''||2016
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|J. F. Langer||''From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office: The Memoirs of Air Commodore J F 'Johnny' Langer''||2016
|J. F. Langer||''From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office: The Memoirs of Air Commodore J F 'Johnny' Langer''||2016
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|Noel Merrill Wien||''Noel Merrill Wien: Born to Fly''||2016
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|Lew Jennings||''19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam''||2017
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|Bill Kirkness||''RAF Liberators over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2017
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|G. F. Schreader||''Hognose Silent Warrior: The USAF's Airborne Intelligence War in the Final Air Campaigns of Vietnam''||2017
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|Carl G. Schneider||''Jet Pioneer: A Fighter Pilot's Memoir''||2017
|Carl G. Schneider||''Jet Pioneer: A Fighter Pilot's Memoir''||2017
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|Norman Kleiss||''Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2017
|Norman Kleiss||''Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2017
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|James Paul Segel||''Flying The Hump To China, The Early Days''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2017
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|Victor Vizcarra||''Thud Pilot: A Pilot's Account of Early F-105 Combat in Vietnam''||2017
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|Lynn Wyatt||''Memories from My Logbook: A Bush Pilot's Story''||2017
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|Tom Faulkner||''Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II''||2018
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|David R. Honodel||''The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat over Laos''||2018
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|D. D. Smith||''Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way''||2018
|D. D. Smith||''Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way''||2018
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|Tammie Jo Shults||''Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge''||2019
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|Terry L. Thorsen||''Phantom in the Sky: A Marine's Back Seat View of the Vietnam War''||2019
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|Dominique Prinet||''Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot''||2020
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|Steve Ladd||''From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot''||2020
|Steve Ladd||''From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot''||2020
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|Fleet S. Lentz||''A Backseat View from the Phantom: A Memoir of a Marine Radar Intercept Officer in Vietnam''||2020
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|David L. Porter||''Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam''||2020
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|Van H. Slayden||''Normandy to Nazi Surrender: Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2020
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|Richard E. Miralles||''War and Fire: From Fighting in World War II to Fighting California Wild Fires''||2020
|Richard E. Miralles||''War and Fire: From Fighting in World War II to Fighting California Wild Fires''||2020
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|Denis Elliott||''From Orphan to High-Flyer''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2021
|Denis Elliott||''From Orphan to High-Flyer''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2021
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|Richard Ernest Evans||''"Richard Eager": A Pilot's Story''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously, based on letters.}}||2021
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|Robert J. Gilliland||''Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon''||2021
|Robert J. Gilliland||''Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon''||2021
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|Ed Cobleigh||''And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot''||2022
|Harry Andrew March, Jr.||''Dirty Eddie's War''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously, based on diary entries.}}||2021
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|Russell Pettis||''Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969''||2021
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|Chris Burwell||''Nine Lives: The Compelling Memoir of a Cold War Harrier Pilot''||2022
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|Ed Cobleigh||''And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot''{{efn|1=The author wrote a previous book: ''War for the Hell of It'' in 2005.}}||2022
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|Rick Gehweiler||''Pop a Smoke: Memoir of a Marine Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2022
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Latest revision as of 04:13, 29 January 2024

Introduction

Work on this project began as early as 24 October 2018, when a list of the same name was created on Amazon. This page is based in large part on the aerospace section of the list of autobiographies Wikipedia page. Said section was entirely self-created, so its inclusion on this website is appropriate. A large number of the bush flying entries were taken from a thread on the Backcountry Pilot forum.

However, the content of this page may differ from the aforementioned article, as inclusion criteria (i.e. notability requirements) are not in place here. Furthermore, the decision was made to focus solely on individuals involved in atmospheric flight, and not spaceflight.

Only a single book is listed for each individual. The years listed are the date of publication of the first edition, as further revisions without additional input from the author are more likely to introduce errors or factual inaccuracies. However, if a work with significantly different content is published later it will be included instead, as it is expected that it will be more comprehensive due to covering a large span of the author's life. The chief method of distinguishing between a new work and a revision, new edition, or translation of an earlier copy is that a significantly different title is used. If the work was originally published in a non-English language, the English language title is listed first, followed by the foreign language title in parentheses.

No distinction is made between autobiographies and memoirs.

Confirmation of publication dates is mainly performed through searches of the WorldCat database. However, in a few cases confirmation was made by consulting images of pages on sales listings on online auctions or book selling websites.

In the event a book was written with a coauthor or published posthumously, it is noted in a footnote as these factors can affect the directness and therefore the authenticity of the account. In addition, if a book is based on either letters or a diary, this is also noted as these characteristics often place the work in a certain subcategory autobiography written by the children of the subject.

Autobiographies

Author Title Year
Alberto Santos-Dumont My Airships: The Story of My Life 1904
James R. McConnell Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun 1917
Manfred von Richthofen The Red Fighter Pilot 1917
Billy Bishop Winged Warfare 1918
James McCudden Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps 1919
René Fonck My Fights (Mes Combats) 1919
Richard E. Byrd Skyward 1928
Clarence Chamberlin Record Flights 1928
Frank Hawks Speed 1931
Willy Coppens Days Gone: Memories (Jours Envolés: Mémoires)[a] 1932
Amelia Earhart The Fun of It 1933
Duncan Grinnell-Milne Wind in the Wires 1933
C. W. A. Scott C. W. A. Scott's Book: The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott 1934
Jimmy Collins Test Pilot 1935
Beirne Lay Jr. I Wanted Wings 1937
Frank Glasgow Tinker Some Still Live 1938
Louise Thaden High, Wide and Frightened 1938
Igor Sikorsky The Story of the Winged-S 1939
Richard Hillary The Last Enemy 1940
Beryl Markham West with the Night 1942
Ted W. Lawson Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1943
Don S. Gentile One Man Air Force[b] 1944
Guy Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead 1946
Arthur Harris Bomber Offensive 1947
Bert Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird[c] 1947
Henry H. Arnold Global Mission 1949
Claire Lee Chennault Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault 1949
George Kenney General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War 1949
Ivan Kozhedub I Serve the Motherland (Служу Родине) 1949
Hans-Ulrich Rudel Nevertheless (Trotzdem)[d] 1949
Dick Grace Visibility Unlimited 1950
William Bushnell Stout So Away I Went! 1951
Pierre Clostermann The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) 1951
Hanna Reitsch Flying is My Life (Fliegen, Mein Leben) 1951
Adolf Galland The First and the Last 1953
Ernst Heinkel Stormy Life (Stürmisches Leben) 1953
Heinz Knoke I Flew for the Führer 1953
Hugh Henry Home Popham Sea Flight: A Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story 1954
Nevil Shute Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer 1954
Bill Bridgeman The Lonely Sky 1955
Eino Luukkanen Fighter Over Finland (Hävittäjälentäjänä Kahdessa Sodassa) 1956
Johnnie Johnson Wing Leader 1956
John Slessor The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections 1956
Basil Embry Mission Completed[e] 1957
Saburō Sakai Samurai![f] 1957
Pappy Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep 1958
Robert S. Johnson Thunderbolt! 1958
Alan Deere Nine Lives 1959
Albert Scott Crossfield Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot 1960
Eric Brown Wings on My Sleeve 1961
Geoffrey de Havilland Sky Fever: The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland 1961
John Braham Night Fighter 1961
Nancy Bird Born to Fly 1961
John M. Foster Hell in the Heavens 1961
Bud Mahurin Honest John 1962
Arch Whitehouse The Fledgling: An Autobiography 1964
Curtis LeMay Mission with LeMay: My Story[g] 1965
Arthur Tedder With Prejudice: The War Memoirs of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder 1966
José Larios Combat over Spain: Memoirs of a Nationalist Fighter Pilot, 1936-1939 1966
Eddie Rickenbacker Rickenbacker: An Autobiography 1967
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev The Purpose of Life (Цель жизни)[h] 1967
Benjamin Foulois From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois[i] 1968
George William Goddard Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography 1969
George Meager My Airship Flights, 1915-1930 1970
Francis Gary Powers Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time[j] 1970
Raymond Collishaw Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story 1973
Donald Wilson Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years 1973
Jan Zumbach Mister Brown[k] 1973
Arthur Lee No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I 1974
Cecil Arthur Lewis Never Look Back: An Attempt at Autobiography 1974
Igor Kaberov Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика) 1975
Alexander Lippisch A Triangle Flies: The Development of Delta Aircraft Until 1945 (Ein Dreieck Fliegt: Die Entwicklung der Delta-Flugzeuge bis 1945)[l] 1976
Charles Lamb War in a Stringbag 1977
Alan Cobham A Time to Fly 1978
Richard S. Drury My Secret War 1979
Norman Hanson Carrier Pilot 1979
Alex Henshaw Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire[m] 1979
Murray Peden A Thousand Shall Fall 1979
Jean Batten Alone in the Sky 1979
George Gay Sole Survivor 1980
Carl H. Moore Flying the B-26 Marauder Over Europe 1980
Wladek Gnyś First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography 1981
Jack Jefford Winging It! 1981
William R. Dunn Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II 1982
Robert Mason Chickenhawk[n] 1983
Charles R. Bond Jr. A Flying Tiger's Diary[o] 1984
Duke Cunningham Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam[p] 1984
Gerhard Neumann Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant 1984
Robert M. Smith With Chennault in China: A Flying Tiger's Story[q] 1984
Peter Corley-Smith 10,000 Hours: A Helicopter Pilot in the North 1985
Stanley Hooker Not Much of an Engineer 1985
Al Mooney The Al Mooney Story: They All Fly Through the Same Air[r] 1985
Chuck Yeager Yeager: An Autobiography[s] 1985
Roald Dahl Going Solo 1986
Haywood S. Hansell The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir 1986
Jacqueline Cochran Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography[t][u] 1987
Alberto Briganti Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura) 1988
Samuel Hynes Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator 1988
Robert Lee Scott Jr. The Day I Owned the Sky[v] 1988
Fred Weick From the Ground Up 1988
John Thomas Blackburn The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17 1989
Takeo Doi Fifty Years Recollections on Aircraft Design (航空機設計50年の回想) 1989
Hugh Dundas Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years 1989
Marshall Harrison A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam 1989
Herman Lerdahl Skystruck: True Tales of an Alaska Bush Pilot[w] 1989
Kelly Johnson Kelly: More Than My Share of It All 1989
Boone Guyton Whistling Death: The Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair 1990
Bud Anderson To Fly and Fight 1991
Jimmy Doolittle I Could Never Be So Lucky Again[x] 1991
Gabby Gabreski Gabby: A Fighter Pilot's Life[y] 1991
Hajo Herrmann Eagle's Wings 1991
Brian Shul Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet 1991
Rudy Billberg In the Shadow of Eagles: From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot[z] 1992
Joe Foss A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss[aa] 1992
Tex Johnson Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot[ab] 1992
Harry H. Crosby A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II 1993
Lawrence A. Hyland Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft 1993
Diana Barnato Walker Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story 1994
Marion Eugene Carl Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl[ac] 1994
Neal Vernon Loving Lovings Love: A Black American's Experiences in Aviation 1994
Ben Rich Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed[ad] 1994
Otha C. Spencer Flying the Hump: Memories of an Air War 1994
Melvin N. Westwood Contract Military Air Transport From the Ground Up 1995
Bob Hoover Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets 1996
No Kum-Sok A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953[ae] 1996
Tom Smith Easy Target: The Long, Strange Trip of a Scout Pilot in Vietnam 1996
Charles W. Dryden A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman 1997
James V. Hartinger From One Stripe to Four Stars 1997
Boris Sergievsky Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer 1998
Fred J. Olivi Decision at Nagasaki: The Mission That Almost Failed[af] 1998
Frank E. Petersen Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator[ag] 1998
Paul Tibbets Return of The Enola Gay 1998
Jeffrey Quill Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story 1998
David Kirk Vaughan Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968 1998
Max Karant Max Karant: My Flights and Fights[ah] 1999
Richard C. Kirkland Tales of a War Pilot[ai] 1999
Michael J. Novosel Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator 1999
James Anderson Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness[aj] 2000
Ann B. Carl A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II 2000[ak]
Frederick Libby Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I 2000
Denny McCartney Picking Up the Pieces 2000
Lee Wulff Bush Pilot Angler[al] 2000
Roland Beamont The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation 2001
John A. Clark An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary: Combat Missions Flown with the 100th Bomb Group, England 1944-1945 2001
Don Fairbanks Once Around the Patch (Of Life): The Autobiography of Don Fairbanks 2001[am]
Robert K. Morgan The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot[an] 2001
Louis Zamperini Devil at My Heels[ao][ap] 2001
John L. Lenburg Kriegsgefangenen #6410: Prisoner of War[aq] 2002
Peter Masefield Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield[ar] 2002
Geoffrey Wellum First Light: The True Story of a Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies above Britain 2002
James Joyce Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam 2003
Donald L. Mallick Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey 2003
Joseph W. Rutter Wreaking Havoc: A Year in an A-20 2003
Rex Terpening Bent Props & Blow Pots 2003
Randy Zahn Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam[as] 2003
Bernard F. Fisher Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero 2004
Chuck Gross Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot’s War Story 2004
Julian Williams Cummings Grasshopper Pilot: A Memoir[at] 2005
Colin Downes By the Skin of my Teeth: The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea 2005
Edward Huntley Land Here? You Bet!: The True Adventures of a Fledgling Bush Pilot in Alaska and British Columbia in the Early 1950s[au] 2005
Corky Meyer Corky Meyer's Flight Journal: A Test Pilot's Tales of Dodging Disasters Just in Time[av] 2005
James M. Davis In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II 2006
Roy Franklin Island Bush Pilot: Founder of San Juan Airlines 2006
Clayton Kelly Gross Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace 2006
Günther Rall My Logbook: Reminiscences, 1938-2006 2006
Joe Sutter 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation[aw] 2006
Sam O. White Sam O. White, Alaskan: Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot[ax] 2006
Jack Broughton Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs[ay] 2007
Kenny Wayne Fields The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos 2007
Nicholas Gravino, Jr. A Pilot's Memoirs: From the Ground Up 2007
Holger Jorgensen Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Airline Captain Holger "Jorgy" Jorgensen 2007
Ed Rasimus Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War[az] 2007
Richard Hutchings Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falklands War 2008
Leland Snow Putting Dreams to Flight 2008
Harlan R. Hill I Wanted Wings: A Tail Gunner's Story[ba] 2009
Anna Yegorova Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front 2009
John Freeborn Tiger Cub: A 74 Squadron Fighter Pilot in World War II[bb] 2009
Robert Brouk To Soar with the Tigers: The Life and Diary of Flying Tiger, Robert Brouk[bc] 2010
Bernard Fipp Triple Sticks: Tales of a Few Young Men in the 1960s 2010
Mitsuo Fuchida For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor[bd] 2011
Wayne A. Warner One Trip Too Many: A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam 2011
Bob Adkins Panhandle Pilot: Twenty Years of Flying in Southeast Alaska 2012
Don Volz A Pilot's Story: An Autobiography of a Pilot 2012
Mick Greene The Life and Adventures of an Old Bold Pilot: Skill, Courage, Luck 2012
Theodore R. Wiebe Bread of Tears 2012
Albert J. DeGroote A Flight Through Life: An Aviator's Memoir 2013
Geoffrey Leeming From Borneo to Lockerbie: Memoirs of a RAF Helicopter Pilot 2013
David E. Tavel Hell in the Heavens: The Saga of a WWII Bomber Pilot[be] 2013
Bill Collier The Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot: Flying the H-34 helicopter in Vietnam for the United States Marine Corps 2014
Robert F. Curtis Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond 2014
Kimber C. Turner Freight Dog: The Dark Side of Aviation 2014
Mark Garrison Guts 'N Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam 2015
Ed Denny Hornet 33: Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam 2016
Z. W. Kowalewski A Sailor's Life in World War II 2016
J. F. Langer From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office: The Memoirs of Air Commodore J F 'Johnny' Langer 2016
Noel Merrill Wien Noel Merrill Wien: Born to Fly 2016
Lew Jennings 19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam 2017
Bill Kirkness RAF Liberators over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron[bf] 2017
G. F. Schreader Hognose Silent Warrior: The USAF's Airborne Intelligence War in the Final Air Campaigns of Vietnam 2017
Carl G. Schneider Jet Pioneer: A Fighter Pilot's Memoir 2017
Harold Brown Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman 2017
Norman Kleiss Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway[bg] 2017
James Paul Segel Flying The Hump To China, The Early Days[bh] 2017
Victor Vizcarra Thud Pilot: A Pilot's Account of Early F-105 Combat in Vietnam 2017
Lynn Wyatt Memories from My Logbook: A Bush Pilot's Story 2017
Tom Faulkner Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II 2018
David R. Honodel The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat over Laos 2018
D. D. Smith Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way 2018
Tammie Jo Shults Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge 2019
Terry L. Thorsen Phantom in the Sky: A Marine's Back Seat View of the Vietnam War 2019
Dominique Prinet Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot 2020
Steve Ladd From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot 2020
Fleet S. Lentz A Backseat View from the Phantom: A Memoir of a Marine Radar Intercept Officer in Vietnam 2020
David L. Porter Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam 2020
Van H. Slayden Normandy to Nazi Surrender: Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot[bi] 2020
Richard E. Miralles War and Fire: From Fighting in World War II to Fighting California Wild Fires 2020
Christopher Coville Fighter Pilot: From Cold War Jets to Spitfires 2021
Denis Elliott From Orphan to High-Flyer[bj] 2021
Richard Ernest Evans "Richard Eager": A Pilot's Story[bk] 2021
Robert J. Gilliland Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon 2021
Harry Andrew March, Jr. Dirty Eddie's War[bl] 2021
Russell Pettis Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969 2021
Chris Burwell Nine Lives: The Compelling Memoir of a Cold War Harrier Pilot 2022
Ed Cobleigh And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot[bm] 2022
Rick Gehweiler Pop a Smoke: Memoir of a Marine Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam 2022

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Published in English as Days on the Wing in 1934 and Flying In Flanders in 1971.
  2. ↑ Coauthored.
  3. ↑ Published posthumously.
  4. ↑ This would later be re-edited and published in English as Stuka Pilot.
  5. ↑ A previous book, Wingless Victory (alternately known as Alone He Went), was published in 1950. However, it was it was "written by an R.A.F. colleague of Embry's, and thus [does not have] the personal touch of autobiography" according to a review.[1]
  6. ↑ Coauthored. There are significant questions regarding the authenticity of the book due to changes by the coauthor.
  7. ↑ Coauthored.
  8. ↑ The author wrote three books during his lifetime: The Designer's Tales in 1950, a second book in 1964, and The Purpose of Life in 1967. The books vary in content, most distinctly being rewritten in regards to the changing political situation in the Soviet Union.[2] The first English language book, Notes of an Aircraft Designer was published in 1960.[3] A second English language book, corresponding with the third Russian language book and titled The Aim of a Lifetime, was published in 1972.[4]
  9. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  10. ↑ Coauthored.
  11. ↑ Published in English as On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer in 1975.
  12. ↑ Published in English as The Delta Wing: History and Development in 1981.
  13. ↑ The author published two additional books: The Flight of the Mew Gull in 1980 and Wings Across the Great Divide: Postwar Flying in Africa in the 1940s in 2004. They cover his prewar and postwar life, respectively.
  14. ↑ The author published an additional book: Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam in 1993.
  15. ↑ Coauthored, based on diary entries.
  16. ↑ Coauthored.
  17. ↑ Based on diary entries.
  18. ↑ Coauthored.
  19. ↑ Coauthored.
  20. ↑ Coauthored.
  21. ↑ An earlier memoir was published as The Stars at Noon.
  22. ↑ An earlier memoir was published as God is My Co-Pilot.
  23. ↑ Coauthored.
  24. ↑ Coauthored.
  25. ↑ Coauthored.
  26. ↑ Coauthored.
  27. ↑ Coauthored.
  28. ↑ Coauthored.
  29. ↑ Coauthored.
  30. ↑ Coauthored.
  31. ↑ Coauthored.
  32. ↑ Coauthored.
  33. ↑ Coauthored.
  34. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  35. ↑ The author published at least two additional nonfiction books: MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War and Tales of a Helicopter Pilot. A third, War Pilot: True Tales of Combat and Adventure, may be a republication of Tales of a War Pilot.
  36. ↑ Coauthored.
  37. ↑ It is not clear when this book was first published. An edition was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2010.[5] However, her 2008 obituary mentions the work by name.[6] A WorldCat entry with limited details mentions an edition published in 2000.[7] This date has been used for the entry.
  38. ↑ Published posthumously.
  39. ↑ The date of publication is not listed in the book and could not be determined from online sources. However, an article published by AOPA in 2001 mentions it and this date has been used for the entry.[8]
  40. ↑ Coauthored.
  41. ↑ Coauthored.
  42. ↑ A previous book of the same name was written with a different co-author and first published in 1956.
  43. ↑ Republished in 2015 as Walk to Freedom.
  44. ↑ Coauthored.
  45. ↑ Based on audiotapes.
  46. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  47. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  48. ↑ This may be a compilation of various articles published in the magazine Flight Journal.[9][10]
  49. ↑ Coauthored.
  50. ↑ Coauthored.
  51. ↑ The author wrote two previous books: Thud Ridge in 1968 and Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington in 1988.
  52. ↑ The author published a previous book, a prequel: When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam in 2003.
  53. ↑ Coauthored, based on letters.
  54. ↑ Coauthored.
  55. ↑ Published posthumously, coauthored, based on diary entries.
  56. ↑ Published posthumously.
  57. ↑ Coauthored, based on diary entries.
  58. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  59. ↑ Coauthored.
  60. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  61. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously.
  62. ↑ Coauthored.
  63. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously, based on letters.
  64. ↑ Coauthored, published posthumously, based on diary entries.
  65. ↑ The author wrote a previous book: War for the Hell of It in 2005.

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