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Wings of Valor: Real-Life Aviation Adventures in War and Peace

by Allan T. Duffin

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Aviation stories spanning combat, recovery, restoration, and civilian flight

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Aviation stories spanning combat, recovery, restoration, and civilian flight

Across 17 accounts, Allan T. Duffin surveys aviation in both military and civilian contexts, moving between wartime missions, modern combat aircraft, remotely piloted systems, airport procedures, and aircraft restoration. The book includes firsthand material connected to the Bay of Pigs invasion alongside episodes from World War II and Korea, as well as accounts of hazardous maneuvers, air-to-ground communication in hostile territory, and damaged aircraft returned to service. Other pieces look beyond combat to pilots who become astronauts, veterans’ recovery, classic planes, and unexpected afterlives for aircraft converted into restaurants. The collection’s broad scope makes aviation itself the linking subject: its risks, technologies, histories, and human stakes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Aviation enthusiasts interested in military and civilian flight
  • Readers of firsthand and historical accounts of 20th-century conflict
  • Those curious about aircraft restoration, drones, airport security, and spaceflight connections

Themes

Military aviationAviation historyFlight technologyWar and recoveryAircraft preservation

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Book overview

From combat to commercial flight, WINGS OF VALOR contains 17 rollercoaster rides through air and space. Strap in and fly along with courageous men and women in today's combat aircraft. You'll experience amazing tales of dangerous airfield maneuvers, remotely piloted aircraft and drones, bringing a dead aircraft back to life, and communicating from air to ground in enemy territory. Travel into the past with gripping accounts of combat missions in World War II and Korea, a firsthand account of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the terrors of enemy ordnance falling on American soil. Learn about heroic pilots who become astronauts, and how the wounded recover from the horrors of war. Also included are vignettes about airplanes that have been converted into restaurants, restoring classic aircraft, and things you didn't know about airport security procedures.
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