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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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|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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|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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|Otha C. Spencer||''Flying the Hump: Memories of an Air War''||1994
|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
|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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|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
|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
|James Anderson||''Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2000
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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
|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
|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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|Rex Terpening||''Bent Props & Blow Pots''||2003
|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
|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.}}{{efn|Published posthumously.}}||2005
|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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|Sam O. White||''Sam O. White, Alaskan: Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006
|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
|Kenny Wayne Fields||''The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos''||2007
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|Holger Jorgensen||''Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Airline Captain Holger "Jorgy" Jorgensen''||2007
|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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|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
|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
|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
|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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|Lew Jennings||''19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam''||2017
|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
|G. F. Schreader||''Hognose Silent Warrior: The USAF's Airborne Intelligence War in the Final Air Campaigns of Vietnam''||2017
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|James Paul Segel||''Flying The Hump To China, The Early Days''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2017
|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
|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
|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
|David L. Porter||''Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam''||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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|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
|Russell Pettis||''Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969''||2021
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|Ed Cobleigh||''And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot''||2022
|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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