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FREE BOOKS FOR MILITARY VETERAN HISTORIANS
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The list below shows books currently available as of 12:00 am the previous night. We will inform you if a book you have chosen was previously taken and has not yet been removed from the list which shows the Title -- Author's Name -- and indicates Hard(cover) or Soft(cover).


MAKE YOUR SELECTION(S):

    1. ☛The Philippine Sea 1944, The Last Great Carrier Battle--Mark Stile--Soft

    2. ☛American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur--William Manchester--Hard

    3. ☛US Navy Escourt Carriers 1942-45--Mark Stile--Soft

    4. ☛Santa Cruz 1942, Carrier Duel in the South Pacific--Mark Stile--Soft

    5. ☛The Last Lion, Winston Churchill--William Manchester/Paul Reid--Hard

    6. ☛The Rommel Murder--Charles Marshall--Hard

    7. ☛Malaya & Dutch East Indies, Japan's Air Power Shocks the World--Mark Stile--Soft

    8. ☛Guadalcanal 1942-43, Japan's Bid to Knock Out Henderson Field and the Cactus Air force--Mark Stile--Soft

    9. ☛Attack on Yamamoto--Carroll Glines--Hard

    10. ☛Java Sea 1942, Japan's Conquest of the Netherlands East Indies--Mark Stile--Soft

    11. ☛The Solomons 1943-1944, The Struggle for New Georgia and Bouganville--Mark Stile--Soft

    12. ☛The Coral Sea 1942, The First Carrier Battle--Mark Stile--Soft

    13. ☛Day of Deceit, The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor--Robert Stinnett--Soft

    14. ☛The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942, Clash for Supremacy in the Pacific--Mark Stile--Soft

    15. ☛Atomic Quest, A Personal Narrative by Arthur Compton--Compton--Hard

    16. ☛The Slipstream, Mark IV--Naval Trng Cnter, Corpus Christi-Hard

    17. ☛Cruise 1967, USS Pictor AF54--Edward Iglesias--Hard

    18. ☛USS Lake Champlain, Meditterranean Cruise 1954-55--Hard

    19. ☛There I Was, The Story of Air Group 47--Hard

    20. ☛The USS Bataan, Aug 1, 1943-Ovt 17, 1945--Hard

    21. ☛ US Naval Vessels, 1943--Naval Inst. Press-- Hard

    22. ☛ Ships of the US Navy--Exeter Books--Hard

    23. ☛ Lineage of the 9th New York Regiment--Leonard A Keyes--Hard

    24. ☛Prelude to War--Robert T Elson--Time-Life Books

    25. ☛History of the Air Force--Bill Yenne--Hard

    26. ☛George Marshall, Hero of our Times--Leonard Mosley--Hard

    27. ☛ The Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet -- Fahey's Victory Edition

    28. ☛ We Build A Navy -- Holloway H. Frost, Cmdr, US Navy

    29. ☛ Far Eastern Cruise: USS Springfield CL-66 --

    30. ☛ Modern Seamanship -- 11th Ed., 1945

    31. ☛ The Rules of the Nautical Road -- Cpt Raymond W. Farwell

    32. ☛ WW2 Navigator's Kit (One piece missing, not a book)

    33. ☛ Navigation and Nautical Astronomy -- 8th Ed.

    34. ☛ Burial Flag, Large (not a book)

    35. ☛ The Bounty Trilogy -- Nordhoff& Hall

    36. ☛ Fletcher Class Destroyers -- by Alan Raven

    37. ☛ Introduction to Airplanes -- Navy Training Course

    38. ☛ Flying the Weather Map -- Aerology Series (Pamphlet)

    39. ☛ Vertigo Sense -- Navaer, 00-80Q-33 (Pamphlet)

    40. ☛ UHF Sense -- Navaer, 00-80Q-41 (Pamphlet)

    41. ☛ Recognition and Identification Sense -- Navaer 00-80q-21 (Pamphlet)

    42. ☛ Prisoner Sense -- Navaer 00-80-Q6 (Pamphlet)

    43. ☛ Security Sense I-- Navaer 00-80-16 (Pamphlet)

    44. ☛ Security Sense I-- Navaer 00-80-16 (Pamphlet)

    45. ☛ Flat-Hatting Sense -- Navaer 00-80Q-38 (Pamphlet)

    46. ☛ Electrical Sense -- Navaer 00-80Q-17 (Pamphlet)

    47. ☛ High Altitude Sense -- Navaer 00-80Q-35 (Pamphlet)

    48. ☛ Dunking Sense -- Navaer (Pamphlet)

    49. ☛ Gunnery Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q3(Pamphlet)

    50. ☛ Manners Sense -- Navaer (Pamphlet)

    51. ☛ Instrument Flying Sense -- Navaer (Pamphlet)

    52. ☛ Night Vision Sense -- Navaer (Pamphlet)

    53. ☛ Carrier Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 23 (Pamphlet)

    54. ☛ Shoot Seat Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 37 (Pamphlet)

    55. ☛ Swimming and Diving -- Red Cross (Pamphlet)

    56. ☛ Fuel Saving Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 13 (Pamphlet)

    57. ☛ S2F Plane Captains Handbook -- (Pamphlet)

    58. ☛ The Equatorial Front -- Aerolog Series #9 (Pamphlet)

    59. ☛ Terrain Flying -- (Pamphlet)

    60. ☛ Support Aircraft Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 43 (Pamphlet)

    61. ☛ Taxi Sense -- (Pamphlet)

    62. ☛ Jet Cruise Control Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 39 (Pamphlet)

    63. ☛ Artic Sense -- (Pamphlet)

    64. ☛ Helicopter Rescue Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 42 (Pamphlet)

    65. ☛ Carrier Cold Starting Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 31 (Pamphlet)

    66. ☛ Aleutian Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 11 (Pamphlet)

    67. ☛ Jet Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 30 (Pamphlet)

    68. ☛ Air Controller Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 40 (Pamphlet)

    69. ☛ Compressibility Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 29 (Pamphlet)

    70. ☛ Patol Sense -- Navaer NA 00 80Q 13 (Pamphlet)

    71. ☛ Navigator's Tool Case (3 instruments)

    72. ☛ Home Nursing -- American Red Cross, WW2

    73. ☛ Bet Your Boots: The Story of Recruit Training -- By Ritter & Gadbois

    74. ☛ Panorama of Flight: Aviation History in Paintings -- By Charles H Hubbell,1903-1953

    75. ☛Long Knives and Short Memories, The Spandau Prison Story--Jack Fishman--Hard


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